Accounts Receivable Specialist at Alter Trading Corp – St. Louis, Missouri

Job Description/Responsibilities

Reporting to the Manager of AR and AP, the Accounts Receivable Specialist is responsible of maintaining the quality and accuracy of accounts receivable through assigned responsibilities.

• Identifies correct customers and invoices by interpreting various remittance advices, and applies wires, ACH’s, and checks to open invoices.
• Identifies past due customers within policy guidelines, past due invoices, and subsequent collection of past due invoices by making external and/or internal contact and follow up.
• Documents and communicates short payments and unapplied cash through established procedures and works with internal and external contacts to resolve.
• Analyzes customer payments, researches unapplied cash, duplicate billings, and adjustments to correctly apply and clear open invoices.
• Monitor customer credit limits and work effectively with other parties to adjust, analyze, communicate, and request new credit limits.
• Maintains divisional Accounts Receivable, including joint venture, distributor, railcar, and miscellaneous sales by analyzing and applying payments, and collecting/resolving open items through internal and/or external contacts.
• Performs month end reconciliations and reports.
• Performs special projects requiring analysis of Accounts Receivable transactions.
• Performs all other task and/or responsibilities as assigned, requested, or needed.

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