Accounts Receivable Specialist

Accounts Receivable Specialist

Triumvirate Environmental, one of the largest environmental services firms in North America, is hiring an experienced, analytical, detail-oriented Accounts Receivable Specialist to join their Santa Fe Springs, CA office.

Working with the Director of Credit & Collections, the Accounts Receivable Specialist will be responsible for engaging and developing relationships with customers based in the United States in order to facilitate the timely collections of receivables and to resolve issues related to delinquent payments. In this capacity, the Accounts Receivable Specialist will analyze the credit worthiness of new and current customers in order to manage the credit risk of these accounts accordingly. In addition, the Accounts Receivable Specialist will be responsible for supporting the collections team posting customer receipts and credits as necessary, will account for all customer transactions that affect the detail accounts receivable subsidiary ledger, reconciling the subsidiary ledger to the general ledger, and maintaining records that allow in depth analysis of customer activity.

Triumvirate Environmental provides leading organizations in the higher education, life sciences, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing sectors with diverse services and expertise to assist them with compliance management. At Triumvirate Environmental, we strive to WOW both our employees and our customers. Our unique culture fosters growth, development, education, and creativity.   

This position reports to the Director of Credit and Collections as well as support the VP of Finance. This position is a hybrid role and will be based in their Santa Fe Springs, CA office. The salary for this role is $65,000 -$75,000.

Responsibilities: 

• Collect outstanding balances from Triumvirate clients.
• Develop relationships with client companies in order to facilitate the timely collection of receivables and resolve issues related to delinquent payment.
• Monitor Accounts Receivable to identify past due accounts and prepare analyses. Provide weekly receivables reporting for customer accounts or any books of business assigned.
• Make periodic calls on customers, as necessary, to resolve delinquent payment issues.
• Work with sales and customer service teams to resolve delinquent payment issues.
• Conduct credit reviews of new and current vendors as appropriate.
• Research discrepancies and eliminate obstacles to collecting past due balances.
• Posting of accounts receivable cash and processing of credit card transactions.
• Prepare monthly AR reports, metrics and present results.
• Collect and manage an accounts receivable portfolio as assigned by management.
• Support the posting of appropriate general ledger entries for company cash transactions and maintaining proper internal controls of recorded transactions.
• Provide other support as needed related to cash posting and cash reporting.
• Interaction with numerous departments to effect resolution of credit and collection issues.
• Assist in the reporting of credit and collection metrics to senior management.
• Assist in month end closing, netting credits, reconcile accounts receivable, prepare schedules, sales reconciliation, and AR reconciliation.
• Maintain schedules to support deductions.
• Maintain the necessary data to accurately bill the remit sales tax to all tax authorities on a timely basis.
• Ensure that tax exemption certificates are current.
• Reply to audit and information request.

Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Director, Credit & Collections

Basic Requirements: 

• Ability to communicate with and advise management at all levels on essential duties and responsibilities.
• Strong communication skills allowing for the development of effective relationships across all levels of the company.
• Bachelor of Science or Arts Degree
• Three or more years of prior credit & collections experience.
• Must possess innovative problem-solving skills and strong analytical abilities.
• Must be highly productive, efficient and able to