AR Accountant

Our client, a growing organization within the construction materials industry, is seeking an Accounts Receivable Accountant to join its Credit & Collections team on a contract-to-hire basis. This is not a traditional collections position. The role combines full-cycle accounts receivable with accounting, reconciliations, cash application, research, and data analysis. The ideal candidate enjoys digging into discrepancies, determining why payments or account balances do not reconcile, and working across multiple systems and departments to resolve issues.

The company operates across multiple states and has expanded significantly through acquisition, creating an accounting environment with multiple systems, business units, and data sources.

• Perform full-cycle accounts receivable accounting, including cash application, payment processing, posting checks, invoicing, billing, and account maintenance.
• Research and resolve short payments, payment discrepancies, unapplied cash, and account variances.
• Support month-end close and general ledger accounting activities related to accounts receivable.
• Pull financial and customer data from multiple accounting and banking systems and analyze, manipulate, and reconcile the information in Excel.
• Investigate complex account issues and identify the underlying cause rather than simply processing transactions.
• Work with a large customer portfolio in an environment supporting approximately 2,000 customers.
• Partner with Sales, Accounting, customers, and other internal teams to research and resolve account issues.
• Maintain clear documentation and account notes and manage assignments received through shared communication channels.

• Bachelor s degree required.
• Strong Understanding of general ledger accounting and how AR activity flows into the GL.
• Hands-on experience with cash application, reconciliations, payment processing, and billing/invoicing.
• Strong intermediate Excel skills, including the ability to create tables, use formulas and lookups, manipulate data, and build reports.
• Experience working with and reconciling information from multiple accounting or ERP systems.
• Distribution, construction materials, equipment, manufacturing, or another high-volume transactional environment is beneficial.
• Experience with Viewpoint, Net Suite, Oracle, or similar ERP/accounting systems is a plus.