Accounts Receivable Analyst

MCR Safety, a Bunzl company, is seeking an A/R Analyst for their headquarters office in Collierville, TN. The AR Analyst's short pay process, ensuring proper documentation and reconciliation of customer short payments, including report generation, discrepancy resolution, and distribution to relevant parties.

• Manage the Short Pay Process, ensuring that customer short payments are properly documented for tracking and accountability and reconciled to system balances. This includes running reports, researching and documenting discrepancies and distributing them to appropriate individuals and departments.
• Communicate with key accounts via email and phone to facilitate resolution of assigned A/R transactions. This includes packaging required documentation such as invoices, packing slips, BOLs, and PODs and submitting to the customer in required format.
• Research validity of customer payment disputes, follow up on outstanding deductions to resolution including credit application, payment application, or write‑off application using discretionary judgement.
• Perform daily posting of customer payments and balancing of checks, wires, ACH, EFT and credit card payments, and maintain balanced journals of all daily payments.
• Review all credit memos issued prior to mailing and update customer invoice/credit notes to include proper document references and apply to related outstanding balances/deductions.
• Manage multiple tasks simultaneously and practice effective time management.
• Back‑up tasks during absences of other department personnel.
• Act as a resource person to tax and bank auditors during reviews related credit and account issues.
• Special projects and additional tasks as needed.

• High School diploma or GED equivalent required.
• Business or related degree preferred.
• 3-5 years of high-volume Business to Business cash transactions experience required.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Working knowledge of Windows and Word; intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills required.
• Knowledge of SAP preferred.
• Effective organizational and multitasking abilities.
• Flexibility in prioritizing job functions.
• Ability to manage workload and meet deadlines.
• High level of maturity and confidence necessary to interact with sophisticated internal and external clients.
• Strong leadership and customer service skills to maintain high service and quality.
• Product knowledge with clear technical understanding to communicate to customer.
• Excellent project management, organizational, and planning skills to prioritize multiple tasks, projects and meet deadlines.
• Outstanding attention to detail, flexibility and creativity.
• Persistence coupled with the ability to communicate effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to exercise discretion and good judgment, work with minimal supervision and maintain confidentiality.

• Medical, Dental & Vision Benefits effective the 1st day of the month after 30 days.
• Paid Time Off - Vacation, Sick, Holidays and Personal Time.
• 401K with generous company match.
• Additional benefit information can be found on the Bunzl Careers home page under Benefits and Perks.

Bunzl Distribution has a tradition of commitment to equal employment opportunity. It is the established policy to attract and retain the best qualified people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, age, disability or veteran status as provided by law.

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