Corporate Accounts Receivable Specialist

At American Packaging Corporation (APC), you’ll find the packaging career you’ve been looking for. With competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401(k) plans and tuition reimbursement programs, we nurture our employees while advancing and promoting diversity and inclusion. As the leading flexible packaging converter in North America for over a century, APC’s longstanding success is fueled from the inside out. We’re constantly seeking to improve our internal operations and were named a “Best of the Best” in the Best workplaces in the America’s awards for 12 years in a row.

It’s how and why we engage the best and brightest talent to continue propelling our shared success into the future.

At American Packaging Corporation (APC), you’ll find the packaging career you’ve been looking for. With competitive salaries, excellent benefits, 401(k) plans and tuition reimbursement programs, we nurture our employees while advancing and promoting diversity and inclusion. As the leading flexible packaging converter in North America for over a century, APC’s longstanding success is fueled from the inside out. We’re constantly seeking to improve our internal operations and were named a “Best of the Best” in the Best workplaces in the America’s awards for 12 years in a row.

It’s how and why we engage the best and brightest talent to continue propelling our shared success into the future.

Corporate, Story City, IA

The Accounts Receivable & Collections Specialist is responsible primarily for managing the aged report and securing outstanding payments. This role requires an assertive yet professional communicator who can mitigate financial risk, resolve billing discrepancies, and maintain strong customer relationships while protecting the company's cash flow.

• Review accounts receivable aging report weekly to identify unpaid, delinquent, or high-risk accounts

• Initiate contact with customers regarding past due-due invoices via phone, email and customer portals

• Reconcile complex customer accounts to ensure issues are being resolved

• Process and maintain customer account requests, including new customer setups, updates to existing customer information, credit reference requests, and other account-related changes.

• Send monthly aged receivables to National Account Managers

• Cross-train to support Center of Excellence locations as needed, including assistance with customer invoicing and cash posting.
• Support department projects and process-improvement initiatives as assigned.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field from four-year college or university; or Associate degree in accounting or related field plus 2 years of experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

• Reliability: at work every day on time
• Accuracy: uncompromised
• Communication
  
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