Accounting Generalist II

Position Summary

Reporting to the Corporate Controller, this is a multifaceted accounting support role for Accounts Receivable, Billing, Credit, Collections, and Accounts Payable.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

•             Accounts Receivable/Billing – Primary/Daily Tasks
  • Billing for stock, specials, and labels
  • Generate customer invoices and credits
  • Daily invoice emailing, faxing, mailing for stock, support for specials and labels
  • Cash application
  • Process customer credit card/electronic payments
  • Customer sales tax certificate management
  • Review AR aging for open credits and potential offsets
  • Order jacket cleaning and sorting, as needed
• Credit and Collections Support – Primary/Daily Tasks
  • Credit email box review and assignment, work items that are assigned to this position
  • Emailing any requested documents to customers, for example invoices, statements
  • Processing customer credit card payments, setup of customer in credit card processing portals
  • Collections calls to past due accounts
  • Process credit applications for new and existing accounts for possible payment terms, send/call for trade and bank references, check various credit sites for information, compile and propose results for Corporate Controller
  • Unapplied credits, unapplied chargebacks, unapplied cash review and reconciliation
• General Accounting
  • Daily banking file updates, as needed
  • Monthly reconciliation and report support, as needed
  • Costing labor sheet entry
  • Periodic reporting compilations and distributions, ie Sales, Past Dues, Weekly and Monthly sales/production recaps, spend recaps
  • Back up for sales tax filings
• Accounts Payable
  • Support Accounts Payable PO invoice keying, as needed
  • Payment run backup, as needed
• Mailroom Support
• Other ad hoc duties and projects as requested

Required Qualifications

• • Detail oriented individuals with high accuracy a must. Ability to work in a quick-paced environment and able to manage multiple tasks.  Highly motivated self-starter desired.  Previous experience in a workflow environment a plus.          
  • Excel skills preferred as well as expose to other Microsoft Office Suite products.
  • Prior work experience in the IBM iSeries platform (AS400) for custom applications and RPG based ERP systems preferred.