About Balfour & Co. is one of the world’s leading Collegiate and High School commencement services companies, offering innovative, personalized products like class jewelry, yearbooks, regalia, school uniforms and photography. With brands such as Balfour, GradImages, ArtCarved, and more, we’ve been helping students celebrate life’s most meaningful moments since 1913. Balfour has around 4,000 employees and operates in 3 countries.
POSITION SUMMARY
The AR/AP Clerk provides accounting support to the corporate finance department performing a variety of duties.
ESSENTIAL POSITION DUTIES
- Enter Bills
- Process Payments
- Verify monthly billings are received and entered
- Reconcile AP accounts
- Perform audits
- Research customer disputes.
- Generate customer invoicing.
- Assemble and /mail out customer statements.
- Create customer order headers for application of early payment discount payments.
- Reconcile cash received, prepare bank deposits, and deposit customer checks.
- Settle deposit transactions daily.
- Will also answer phones and set up new customers.
- Ascertain accuracy of sales pricing on customer orders.
- Match order shipping documents with customer orders.
- Process payments, verify invoices and reconcile all expenses.
- Prepares, posts, verifies, and records customer payments and transactions related to accounts receivable.
- Reconciling bank statements with the general ledger.
- Additional responsibilities as assigned.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting preferred or 3-5 years’ similar position accounting experience required
- Well-rounded experience and knowledge for AP and AR; GAAP knowledge.
- Must be bilingual in English/Spanish
- Organized, detail oriented, adaptable, and able to handle multiple assignments with minimal supervision.
- Ability to work with sensitive information and maintain a high degree of confidentiality.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency with MS Office applications, Excel required (pivot tables), AS400 and Microsoft Outlook and Clarion Software required.
- Must be a strong relationship builder and team player that demonstrate initiative, result orientation and follow through.
- Proactive and forward thinking with research skills.
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