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Join us for an exciting career with the leading provider of supplemental benefits!
Our Promise Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards. The Billing & Collections Analyst will report to the Finance Operations Accounting Manager and will play a critical role in managing the accounts receivable in the organization. This position will analyze financial data, prepare reports, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders regarding billing and collection matters. This individual is expected to possess the ability to understand system generated billings and explain the logic behind how the bill was calculated. Development and production of KPI metrics and dashboards are part of the opportunity along with regular communication of accounts receivable status reports. In addition, this position will work closely with other departments to streamline billing procedures while ensuring proper controls are adhered to
Competencies: Functional:
- Generate accurate and timely invoices for clients both utilizing the system and manual inputs.
- Create collection KPI metrics and produce a weekly accounts receivable dashboard.
- Act as a subject matter expert for the billing and collection team; mentor and train junior members of the team as applicable.
- Manage multiple billing tasks and deadlines to ensure invoices are produced timely.
- Produce reporting to effectively monitor customer accounts receivable balances.
- Identify delinquent accounts and initiate the collections process on overdue accounts.
- Investigate and resolve disputes related to invoicing or payment discrepancies.
- Collaborate with clients to address billing inquires and provide exceptional customer service.
- Process payments timely and perform accounts receivable reconciliations and payment analysis.
- Implement and maintain efficient billing and collection procedures.
- Manage team mailbox: file, organize and ensure requests are addressed timely.
- Support audit requests as needed.
- Possess understanding of billing and collection process cycle.
- Ability to work with billing and collection systems and correct for billing errors.
- Provide excellent customer service to external and internal customers.
Core:
- Knowledge of accounting principles. Understanding of basic accounting principles, such as revenue recognition, accruals, and general ledger entries.
- Detail oriented - strong attention to detail to ensure accuracy in invoice creation, payment application, and recording of financial transactions.
- Ability to identify and resolve discrepancies or errors.
- Critical thinking - ability to reason through requests.
- Problem-solving skills to resolve billing disputes, address customer inquiries and implement process improvements.
- Strong organizational skills to maintain accurate records, track collections progress, and meet reporting requirements.
- Professional judgement - when to question, ask a question or make the decision.
- Must be proficient in Excel - able to use filtering, sorting, and creating basic formulas as well as creating and using pivot tables and VLookup.
- Ability to work independently and find solutions to complex billing and collection issues.
- Time management - ability to prioritize tasks, work under tight deadlines, and handle multiple responsibilities simultaneously; ability to multitask and manage time amid multiple deadlines.
- Proactive and self-motivated to solve problems, comfortable with a high degree of responsibility in ambiguous situations.
- Analytical skills required (able to analyze financial data, identify trends, draw conclusions, and make recommendations to improve billing and collections performance).
- Knowledge of billing and collections processes. Strong understanding of billing and collection procedures, including invoice generation, payment processing and collection strategies.
- Capable of operating in a fast-paced and transformational environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Behavioral:
- Collegiality: building strong relationships on company-wide, approachable, and helpful, ability to mentor and support team growth.
- Initiative: readiness to lead or take action to achieve goals.
- Communicative: ability to relay issues, concepts, and ideas to others easily orally and in writing.
- Member-focused: going above and beyond to make our members feel seen, valued, and appreciated.
- Detail-oriented and thorough: managing and completing details of assignments without too much oversight.
- Flexible and responsive: managing new demands, changes, and situations.
- Critical Thinking: effectively troubleshoot complex issues, problem solve and multi-task.
- Integrity & responsibility: acting with a clear sense of ownership for actions, decisions and to keep information confidential when required.
- Collaborative: ability to represent your own interests while being fair to those representing other or competing ideas in search of a workable solution for all parties.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, or equivalent work experience of 5 to 7 years.
- 4 years of prior experience in billing and collections, accounts receivable or related financial roles. Experience with invoice processing, collections, financial analysis, and cash application is preferred.
- Previous experience (minimum of 3 years) communicating with internal stakeholders and customers regarding billing and collection matters.
- As this role is a remote role, you are required to maintain internet service that allows you to complete your essential job duties without issue. Rates of 50 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload while hardwired and not on a VPN are sufficient.
At Avsis, we strive to design equitable, and competitive compensation programs. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $41,860.00-$69,760.00 Zone B: $45,610.00-$76,010.00 Zone C: $49,100.00-$81,840.00 FLSA Status: Salary/Exempt
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, and commission. Please visit Avesis Pay Zones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter. We Offer
- Meaningful and challenging work opportunities to accelerate innovation in a secure and compliant way.
- Competitive compensation package.
- Excellent medical, dental, supplemental health, life and vision coverage for you and your dependents with no wait period.
- Life and disability insurance.
- A great 401(k) with company match.
- Tuition assistance, paid parental leave and backup family care.
- Dynamic, modern work environments that promote collaboration and creativity to develop and empower talent.
- Flexible time off, dress code, and work location policies to balance your work and life in the ways that suit you best.
- Employee Resource Groups that advocate for inclusion and diversity in all that we do.
- Social responsibility in all aspects of our work. We volunteer within our local communities, create educational alliances with colleges, drive a variety of initiatives in sustainability.
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