Accounts Receivable Specialist - Fin - Finance

About us: Accuris, a company long-known for accelerating innovation in engineering workflows and supporting the vibrancy of the engineering community, launched in May 2023 as a standalone company. Accuris was formerly known as S&P Global's Engineering Solutions division. The Company is valued for its standards content and workflow solutions like Engineering Workbench, Goldfire, Haystack and Parts Management Solutions.
Under its previous owners, including S&P Global, IHS and IHS Markit, Accuris has been an integral part of the engineering ecosystem for more than 60 years.
Collection Specialist
Accuris is a leading engineering data and technology company that delivers next -generation holistic workflow solutions to empower engineering and technical professionals to identify, design, build, and accelerate innovation. For more than 60 years, leading R&D and engineering-intensive organizations have relied on us to achieve on-time, on-budget delivery of complex projects and new products. We deliver an unparalleled combination of technical content and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to surface answers from the vast universe of technical knowledge, both inside and outside the organization. In a single interface, we connect the dots between information scattered across many different sources, allowing technical professionals to make better, more informed decisions faster.
Who we are: Accuris is a company long-known for accelerating innovation in engineering workflows and supporting the vibrancy of the engineering community. As of 2023 the company launched as a standalone company. Accuris was formerly known as S&P Global's Engineering Solutions division. The Company is valued for its standards content and workflow solutions like Engineering Workbench, Goldfire, Haystack and Parts Management Solutions.
Under its previous owners, including S&P Global, IHS and IHS Markit, Accuris has been an integral part of the engineering ecosystem for more than 60 years.
About Company Statement:
Accuris delivers essential intelligence that powers decision making. We provide the world's leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies and expertise they need to move ahead. We think differently, combining the knowledge and resources of an established company with the unapologetic boldness of a startup. https://accuristech.com/
Our mission: build an evolvable knowledge and data platform that enables STEM professionals to unlock and deliver innovation to the world's most complex problems.
Accuris provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Summary
This position is responsible for ensuring delinquent accounts are resolved thus improving overall accounts receivable delinquency rates, reducing bad debt and improving cash flow. Employee will accomplish this by contacting customers for collection of past due invoices, reviewing and reconciling customer accounts. Employee will also work with peer organizations such as Order Management, Sales and Customer Service to help facilitate timely resolution of customer billing claims that may negatively impact accounts receivable.
Responsibilities

• Responsible for the collection, management, and resolution of outstanding invoices from past due accounts
• Interfaces with customer service, cash receipting and sales management in resolving customer queries which prevent/ delay settlement
• Accountable for all customer disputes and owning these through resolution
• Developing excellent business relationships though the organization to resolve collection impacting issues, further ensuring that each department understands its role in delivering best practice debt collection
• Ensuring accurate, timely forecasting and reporting of collections made, collections expected and current debt position to meet management and business objectives
• To ensure that all activities undertaken are completed in line with our internal controls and published processes
• Undertake account reconciliations as required
• Respond promptly and completely to both customer and internal enquiries
• Undertaking any other duties which may be requested by the Line Manager, for which training and/or explanation had been provided and understood
• Escalation of debt issues to line manager

Requirements

• 2-3 years Collection experience with large national and/or global corporations
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to communicate courteously and proactively with all levels within the company
• The ability to work in a team and individually
• Good analytical attention to detail with minimal errors
• Hands on mentality, self-driven and able to act efficiently
• Good time management and organizational skills
• High level of literacy and numeracy
• Ability to adhere to deadlines
• SAP experience or equivalent ERP
• Language skills are a bonus
• Excel- basic knowledge required

About Company Statement:
Accuris delivers essential intelligence that powers decision making. We provide the world's leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies and expertise they need to move ahead. We think differently, combining the knowledge and resources of an established company with the unapologetic boldness of a startup. ( https://www.spglobal.com/engineering/en/index.html )
Our mission: build an evolvable knowledge and data platform that enables STEM professionals to unlock and deliver innovation to the world's most complex problems.
Accuris provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.