Accounts Receivable Specialist - Gehl Foods
Germantown, WI 53022
About the Job
Position Overview:
Reporting to the Sr. Accounting Manager, this position's primary responsibility is to maintain customer account records, processing cash receipts, as well as general accounting functions associated with reconciling account balances and inquires to obtain missing information or verify unusual data. An intermediate level of computer skills is required, usually involving accounting software and spreadsheets to enter, compile or extract data.
Job Responsibilities
Accounts Receivable Functions:
- Monitor bank remittances and enter cash receipts on customer accounts. Balance bank transactions to AR customer postings.
- Run the daily billing function (from shipping notes) in Ross. Contact appropriate personnel for discrepancies / unbilled items. Create manual add-on pallet charges.
- Apply sales - credit notes received from the Deductions Specialist.
- Create manual invoices for R&D Trials, take/pay, and other billings. Maintain supporting documentation and approvals.
- Apply cash on account for dispenser sales, including credit card sales.
- Monitor customer credit holds and communicate with Customer Service or the Sr. Accounting Manager / Corporate Controller. Obtain approvals for credit hold releases.
- Run credit reports as instructed by the Accounting Manager, CFO or other managers.
- Reconcile AR accounts with customers as required. Follow-up with internal personnel of the customer as required.
- Backup to the Deduction Specialist, handling customer disputes, credit note processing and deduction backup.
Misc. Duties:
- Makes recommendations to Sr. Accounting Manager regarding trends through data collection and repetitive observation in order to anticipate solutions and identify organizational opportunities to capitalize on changes and adjustments.
- Escalates any complex customer concerns or issues to the Sr. Accounting Manager.
- Maintains a robust working knowledge of accounting processes and guidelines to answer questions and troubleshoot problems as they arise.
- Contributes to a team and collaborative environment by accomplishing related project or tasks as needed to assist with department workflow and output.
- Ensures that required competencies to carry out these job functions affecting product legality, safety and quality are met in accordance with the Quality Policy and the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) standard.
- Ensure compliance with corporate and plant safety standards and with applicable regulatory requirements while following the company’s Good Manufacturing Practices
- Back up for Accounts Payable Specialist as required.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- High School diploma or equivalent
- 3-5 years or accounting (payable, receivable) experience
- Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook)
- Demonstrated organizational skills, detail orientation, accuracy and the ability to multi-task
- Demonstrated professional communication abilities (written and verbal), and strong work ethic.
Preferred Qualifications
- Associates or Bachelor’s degree, ideally with an accounting, business or related field
- Previous ERP experience, ideally in a ROSS platform.
- Have the physical ability to occasionally lift/carry/push/pull up to 25 pounds, reach overhead, climb, squat/bend/kneel, frequently stnad, walk/move about, and regularly sit.
Source : Gehl Foods