Accounts Receivable Specialist

Accounts Receivable Specialist

The FESCO Group is looking for a finance professional who can manage and successfully execute the accounts receivable (AR) function within an electronics manufacturer, distributer, wholesaler, and licensing agent. This includes, but is not limited to, the managing of customer / client accounts, reconciling and settling of AR relationships, researching, resolving, responding to, and communicating on all aspects of FESCOs corporate accounts. The incumbent will drive operational efficiencies and proactively “own” all accounts receivable processes and related internal / external business relationships. The Accounts Receivable Specialist ensures that all corporate accounts (especially those with big-box retailers) are properly reconciled, all revenue properly booked, billed, collected, and accounted for within the FESCO Group’s ERP system (Passport Business Solutions). This critically important role also ensures the effective and timely resolution of the “customer dispute process”. (FESCO is a consumer electronics manufacturer, wholesaler and distributer founded in 1962. We have 18 brands with over 3000 product skus is the areas of audio, charging, personal care, health & wellness, and gaming. Some of our brands include Car & Driver, Body Glove, ChargeWorx, Game Punk, Perry Ellis and Epilady. This is a fully on-site role.


Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Processing account receivables and incoming payments in compliance with financial policies & procedures
• Performing day-to-day financial transactions, including verifying, classifying, computing, posting and recording accounts receivables' data
• Reconcile the accounts receivable ledger to ensure that all payments are accounted for and properly posted
• Verify discrepancies and resolve clients’ billing issues
• Investigate and dispute all “chargebacks”
• Assist clients with payment discrepancies and resolutions
• Facilitate payment of invoices due by sending bill reminders and contacting clients
• Provide detailed history and input to assist with determination of what accounts should be places on credit hold
• Regularly collect outstanding customer balances, maintaining a clean accounts receivable aging report
• Generate financial statements and reports detailing accounts receivable status
• Generate and send daily & monthly invoices for completed orders
• Reconcile and report daily transactional credit card activity
• Reconcile month-end revenue balances between the GL and subledger system
• Maintain customer account information and set up new accounts and products as needed
• Present monthly activities, trends, and opportunities for improvement to program managers
• Create ad hoc reports for company management
• Protects organization’s value by keeping information confidential
• The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and that additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or. the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands

Minimum Qualifications:
· HS Degree required; BS degree in Accounting, Business or Finance STRONGLY preferred
· 3-4 years of experience in an Accounts Receivable position within the consumer products (hard goods) industry
· Microsoft Office suite experience with proficiency in Excel
· Basic knowledge of accounting rules and procedures

Key Talent Attributes:
· Proactive, career driven and highly motivated professional who wants to grow, develop, and achieve – greatly assisting the organization achieve its financial goals
· An aggressive learner with excellent problem-solving skills
· Readily troubleshoots issues in an effective and resourceful manner
· Personally accountable with great integrity
· High degree of responsiveness and regularly employs great customer service

• Team player
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communications skills
• Self-motivated and willing to work independently
• A strong comfort level handling collections calls and interacting directly with customers
• Superior organizational and time management skills
• Attention to detail
• A proven ability to quickly learn internal systems, workflows, and technologies