Accounts Receivable Specialist 1

With moderate supervision, process and manage payments received, and provide related account support. Facilitate daily incoming cash, including credit cards, electronic funds transfers, live checks, and lockbox deposits. Provide financial, clerical, and administrative services to ensure efficient, timely, and accurate payments.

Actively support a continual pipeline of cash receipts across multiple bank accounts and accounts receivable systems

Responsible for the recording of all cash receipts, wire transfers, and other cash-related entries

Prepare and perform daily bank deposits and maintain historical cash receipts files

Review daily reports of applied credit cards, electronic funds transfers, live checks, and lockbox deposits for accuracy and completeness

Deliver daily reporting and historical data in support of cash inventory to management

Prepares timely and accurate billing and reconciliation reports as required

Research and resolve unapplied cash and unapplied credits to ensure accurate and timely cash application

Accurately performs billing, cash application, and reconciliation activities

Act as a point of contact for internal business partners regarding questions about credit cards, electronic funds transfers, live checks, and lockbox payments

Establishes effective partnerships and working relationships with relevant business partners to ensure timely resolution of issues

Appropriately contribute to the evaluation and resolution of situations that could have company-wide impacts to drive solutions as needed

Research customer data to assist in the identification and resolution of inadequacies of accounting information

Sort and distribute customer enrollment correspondence, update customer records as needed

Comply with and maintain data integrity of confidential information, security policies, and procedures

Additional general office duties as assigned

Job Specifications

Typically has the following skills or abilities:

One to two years of financial experience in insurance, retail, accounts receivable, banking, or call center

Ability to perform detailed work with numerical data and to make arithmetic computations accurately

Problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and elevate problems

Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with internal and external business partners

Effective written communication skills, including business writing, grammar, and punctuation, to correspond with customers

Ability to work within multiple systems to extract information needed to support customers and business partners

Organization and time management skills to prioritize multiple tasks

Proficient in a Windows environment with the ability to create and edit Excel spreadsheets

Available to work any shift and overtime as needed

Ability to type 35 wpm

Ability to perform 10-Key by touch (6,000 ksph)

Clean credit history as reported by credit report

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Compensation range for the role is listed below. Applicable salary ranges may differ across markets. Actual pay will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law. As a part of the compensation package, this role may include eligible bonuses and commissions. For more information regarding VSP Vision benefits, please click here. 

Salary Ranges: $15.75 - $22.58

VSP Vision is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to age, gender, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.  We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing. 

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