Career Opportunity
Accounts Receivable (AR) Clerk
Type: Full-time
Location: ADL Foods, Summerside, PEI
The Accounts Receivable (AR) Clerk is directly responsible for performing data entry and related duties in posting accounts receivable payments, as well as reconciling daily cash/cheque payments. This includes maintaining ledgers and credit balances. The AR Clerk will also administer claims, refunds, adjustments, and any other accounting transactions related to A/R management. This position involves diplomatic interaction with customers to provide billing information and support in order to facilitate swift payment of invoices due to the organization.
- Collaborate with Finance to maintain collection goals and general A/R performance levels.
- Communicate with internal/external sales representatives to resolve AR issues as they arise.
- Receive and apply third party payments, whether by cash, cheque, credit, and other forms of payment.
- Coordinate the posting and reconciling of customer payments to general ledgers.
- Work to identify and resolve any payment discrepancies.
- Facilitate daily bank deposits.
- Process credit card payments for customers in conjunction with Management and Sales
- Prepare bi-weekly statements for customers, including applicable interest charges.
- Review all credit balances, refunds, and adjustments, and apply adjustments and/or corrections to corporate billing records.
- Balance daily A/R batches; prepare and distribute income reports and statistics to key personnel.
- Form collection strategies to mitigate customer objections to making timely A/R payments.
- Investigate collection problems and advise customers on corporate A/R policies and procedures
- Arrange for payment of outstanding and late accounts
- Investigate and resolve billing discrepancies or misapplied cash transactions.
- A minimum of 2 years of Account Receivable Clerk related experience with an understanding of bookkeeping and record-keeping practices on a manual and computerized system(s).
- Strong computer literacy including effective working skills of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those selected for interviews will be contacted.
Interested candidates should submit their resume to the Human Resources Department by 4:00 pm, January 8, 2019.
Please email resume and cover letter to hrdirector@adl.ca
Job Expires:January 8, 2020 4:00pm