Staff Accountant, Accounts Receivable

About the position

The position involves managing accounts receivable processing, advisor revenue support, and advisor payout support. The role requires effective communication with internal departments and collaboration on process improvements. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring timely processing of cash receipts, reconciling revenue payouts, and preparing payroll journal entries for advisors. Attention to detail and strong organizational skills are essential for success in this role.

Responsibilities

• Provide daily commission cash receipts to the data entry team.
• Hold the data entry team accountable for 48-hour processing of cash receipts including entry of related sales order and statement support.
• Assist the data entry team with tracking down missing commission statements.
• Review coding and support for sales orders entered by the data entry team for all commission-related cash receipts.
• Communicate effectively with internal departments regarding commission-related inquiries.
• Collaborate with internal departments on accounts receivable and collections process improvement for all revenue streams.
• Maintain reference guide for locating statements with various carriers.
• Reconcile allocation of ancillary revenue payouts to CRM software.
• Consolidate billing revenue by advisor provided by billing department into a report to be loaded into accounting software monthly for payroll.
• Prepare payroll journal entry for advisor specific payroll companies.
• Assist payroll specialist with preparation of payout statements for all advisors, including an excel detail and pdf summary report.
• Maintain and facilitate timely responses to Advisor pay inquiries.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Accounting preferred
• 1-3 years of experience in a similar role or industry
• Knowledgeable of basic accounting principles, chart of accounts, and financial statements
• Proficient in excel
• Proficient in accounting software

Nice-to-haves

• Sage Intacct and Bill.com experience a plus, but not required