Working in Accounts Receivable

All accounting receivable jobs or all accountant jobs are generally available with the accounting department of commercial and government organizations. The main duty of accounts receivable jobs include transactions, detailed reporting and tracking of the receivables. Employment opportunities are greatly increasing these days as more and more accountant firms are looking for competent account receivable professionals. Most of the account receivable job positions are usually referred as accounts receivable assistant, accounts receivable associates, collections specialists, account receivable clerk and accounts receivable specialists.

Job Description of Accounts Receivable Jobs

All sectors such as sales jobs, banking jobs, engineering jobs, human resource jobs or any other sector cannot work without the accounts department and the accounts receivable professionals are the strength of the account departments of all the organizations.



Duties and Responsibilities of Account Receivable Jobs

The main duties and responsibilities of all accounting jobs are centered towards proper management of the finances of the company, without any oversight. Some of the prominent duties and responsibilities of account receivable jobs are listed below:

• Candidate must have the competence to build a profitable client rapport
• He needs to chase the overdue accounts
• Sending of the remittance letters also comes under the responsibility of an accounts receivable professional
• He has to solve all the invoice queries, in time and properly
• An account receivable professional has to provide his team with complete account support to enable them to remain touch with the finances and accounts of the company
• Many a times an accounts receivable candidate has to conduct reconciliations
  

Must Haves to Become an Account Receivable Professional

• Candidate must possess solid experience in finances including the accounts receivable
• Excellent and precise standout communication and interpersonal skills
• He must have the ability to build a good and profitable rapport of the company and himself
• Good customer services skills that ensure complete satisfaction of the customers
• Candidate must have the ability to work with applications such as MS Excel and MS PowerPoint comfortably
• Must be a quick learner
• He should have the ability to deal with the pressures that any financial sector involves as his entire work is related to accounts, finances and taxation.
• Candidate needs to be aware of both traditional and latest accounting tools and methodologies
• He must have conflict resolving skills
• An account receivable professional must be a good planner and an excellent executor of the plans
• He is the one who has complete hand on the company’s account transaction, so he needs to be reliable and trusty

The career in all accounting sectors has been quite good in the past and promises to be one of the highly paid and respectable one in the near future also. Anyone who has complete know-how of accounts and has the ability to work in a very demanding environment can make an account receivable job into a career, without any hesitation.