Staff Accountant, Accounts Receivable

iSpace Environments•Minneapolis, MN

5h•Onsite

About The Position

The Staff Accountant, Accounts Receivable provides financial, clerical, and administrative services to ensure efficient, timely, and accurate payment of accounts. This role secures revenue by verifying and posting receipts and resolving discrepancies. The position involves generating and sending invoices, creating new customer profiles, preparing payment applications, posting customer payments, investigating account discrepancies, managing sales tax liabilities, summarizing receivables, ensuring timely collection of invoices, analyzing and creating reporting metrics, uploading employee time entries, processing inventory transactions, and generating ad hoc reports. The role also requires protecting organizational value through confidentiality and contributing to accounting and organizational mission completion. Additionally, the position serves as a steward of iSPACE Core Values and Brand, embodying expertise, resourcefulness, partnership, teamwork, fun, and ownership.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or Economics, or associate’s degree plus 1-2 years of experience, or four years’ related experience.
Accounting skills
Organization skills
Data Entry Skills
General Math Skills
Financial Software proficiency
Analyzing Information skills
Attention to Detail
Reporting Research Results skills
Verbal Communication skills
Highly proficient in Microsoft Office tools, including Word, Excel and Outlook
Modular accounting software experience

Nice To Haves

Synthesizes complex or diverse information.
Collects and researches data.
Uses intuition and experience to complement data.
Identifies data relationships and dependencies.
Designs workflows and procedures.
Aligns work with strategic goals.
Conducts cost-benefit analyses.
Demonstrates knowledge of market and competition.
Displays orientation to profitability.
Understands business implications of decisions.
Inspires the trust of others.
Keeps commitments.
Treats people with respect.
Works with integrity and ethically.
Upholds and aligns with the organizations Mission, Vision, and Core Values.
Works within approved budget.
Conserves organizational resources.
Develops and implements cost saving measures.
Contributes to profits and revenue.
Exhibits confidence in self and others.
Inspires respect and trust.
Motivates others to perform well.
Reacts well under pressure.
Shows courage to take action.

Responsibilities

Generate and send out invoices daily.
Obtain new customer information and create customer profile in ERP system.
Prepare and submit applications for payment and navigate customer portals.
Post customer payments by recording cash, checks, and credit card transactions.
Verify validity of account discrepancies by investigating information from sales and customers.
Send W-9 and manage exemption certificates from customers.
Manage and reconcile sales tax liabilities.
Summarize receivables by maintaining invoice accounts and updating aging report.
Ensure timely collection of accounts receivable invoices.
Analyze and create reporting metrics within ERP system and build controls for accountability.
Upload employee time entries into ERP system and verify accurate costing to projects.
Process inventory transactions and assist with quarterly inventory counts as necessary.
Generate and analyze ad hoc reports as determined by management.
Protect organization's value by keeping information confidential.
Accomplish accounting and organization mission by completing related projects as needed.
Serve as a Steward of iSPACE Core Values and Brand.
Meet business needs as required.