Accountivity is hiring!
Job Title: Bilingual Accounts Receivable Clerk
Location: York Region, ON
Length of Assignment: Permanent
Salary: $55,000-$65,000/year
Our client in
York Region, ON is actively looking for a
Bilingual Accounts Receivable Clerk to join their team.
The Accounts Receivable Specialist responsible for the day-to-day full cycle accounts receivable function for order to cash clients service offering for multiple clients. This role will work internally and externally with various stakeholders and meet with clients to review the account status and provide any account escalation guidance. The AR Specialist will process deductions, discounts, receipts, cash applications, collections, reconciliation, issue investigation and resolution for any discrepancies as required by clients, etc. This is a soft collections and accounts receivable department that works closely with the company's clients and their customers (order to cash clients).
The AR Specialist will provide deposit information, investigate and resolve client inquires, and prepare and provide reporting along with reconciliation, client meetings, etc., In addition, the AR Specialist will also prepare month end reports, statements, calculate DSO and report the findings to our clients in a proactive manner and follow up with end customer for payments, analyze and escalate all issue to the clients in a timely manner. We are looking for someone who is bilingual in English and French, proactive, thrives in a fast-paced environment with large volume of transactions and ability to multi-task while meeting internal and external deadlines as set by ty the stakeholders.
Skills & Qualifications:
Manages the company's and/or clients' accounts receivable for assigned clients according to client manual.
- Making daily collection calls, releasing orders, processing payments, full cycle accounts receivable from beginning to end from order release to collection to payment application;
- Sending out statements, receipts, invoices and other required information to individual customers
- Follow up with customers for collection on outstanding invoices, resolving short-payment, over-payment issues
- Identifying any high risk accounts and collection issues for Finance team and working with Finance team and client in obtaining payment plans
- Following established procedure for processing deductions, discounts, discrepancies, write offs, receipts, etc.
- Ensuring that receipts are processed in a timely manner in the system and payments are applied to invoices
- Review accounts receivable trial balance for customers and investigate balances, offsets, and investigate any issues and come up with the right set of action (collect, offset, apply payment, write-off, provision, etc.,)
- Communicating deposit information to clients and receipts and EFT information to clients
- Investigating and resolving discrepancies and deductions by working with various departments and client,
- Investigating and resolving clients and customers inquiries.
- Providing statements and reconciling customer accounts as needed.
- Communicating to internal department and client any issues or trends concerning clients' receivables
- Preparing month-end reports and reconciliation of clients AR between sub-ledger and general-ledger
- Acting as the liaison with responsible departments to ensure all AR activities are carried-out in accordance with Client Manual.
- Maintaining required DSO on assigned accounts and analyzing the accounts and escalating and resolving issues to clients externally and internally and keeping the accounts receivable sub-ledger clean and current
- Ensuring month end billing on assigned clients or revenue stream is accurate and timely
- Maintaining Accounts Receivable filing system, standard operating procedures and notes for clients
- Other accounting/administrative/special assignment and other duties as assigned
- Responsible for providing invoices, statements, investigation of short-payment and tax issues and resolving issues in a timely manner
- Supporting with projects related to accounts receivable and order release such – testing reports, system orders, IT projects and system projects related to Accounts receivable, payment application, etc.
Qualifications
- College level Accounting certificate or diploma.
- Bilingual required (English and French) communication including read and write
- Minimum of 2 years accounts receivable full cycle and general accounting experience
- Intermediate level competency in Microsoft Office Word/Excel/Outlook
- Intermediate level competency in ACCPAC and Microsoft GP
- French and English proficiency required (writing, reading, speaking) with Quebec and other provincial customer base across Canada
If you meet the above qualifications, please submit your resume.
Please note that while we appreciate all applications, only those being considered will be contacted.
