Accounting Coordinator

Job Description

As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Waste Management (WM), a Fortune 250 company, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. We are strongly committed to a foundation of operating excellence, professionalism and financial strength. WM serves nearly 25 million customers in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal markets throughout North America through a network of collection operations, transfer stations, landfills, recycling facilities and waste-based energy production projects.

I. Job Summary

Perform collection activity for assigned WMRA Commercial Accounts.

Works effectively with Billing, Cash Applications, Account Managers and Customers to resolve or update on Collection efforts/status.

Provide excellent customer service to both internal and external clients.

II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Other minor duties may be assigned.
• Analyze and reconcile commercial accounts monthly and resolve any outstanding issues
• Manage and execute commercial accounts collection process as approved by management including making phone calls, emailing customers, and setting up Teams meetings.
• Escalate unresolved issues to Accounting Manager, Accounting Director, Account Manager or Billing as needed.
• Reports monthly to Accounting Manager outstanding collection accounts and issues.
• Maintain detailed customer information on delinquent accounts including contact information.
• Meet or exceed objectives and collection goals.
• Analyze and maintain unapplied cash with cash applications before sending Aging to customer.
• Conduct customer research for unresolved accounts.
• Prepare and send aging reports to commercial customers monthly.
• Must be able to thrive in a fast-paced corporate environment.
• Performs based on experience most job responsibilities with increasing effectiveness with some direction from Accounting Manager.
• Possesses required knowledge and skill requirements, but continuously building more experience via training and team learning.
• Continually learning some aspects of job or developing expertise to handle them more independently and effectively.
• Advanced MS Excel experience with the ability to toggle within multiple spreadsheets, and utilize VLOOKUPS and pivot tables.
• Organization skills - must be able to prioritize accounts and tasks.
• Self-starter - must be able to work through their accounts with little to no supervision.
• Availability - Must be available 8-5 M-F.

III. Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory duties.

IV. Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.

A. Education and Experience

Education: High school diploma or GED (accredited).

Experience: Previous work experience required (in addition to education requirement).

Preferred MS Excel VLOOKUP and Pivot able Experience

B. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations or Other Requirements

None required.

C. Other Knowledge, Skills or Abilities Required

None required.

V. Work Environment

Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Normal setting for this job is: office setting.

Benefits

At Waste Management, each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and Short Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan, Company match on 401K, and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.

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About Us

ABOUT WM

WM (WM.com) is North America's largest comprehensive waste management environmental solutions provider. Previously known as Waste Management and based in Houston, Texas, WM is driven by commitments to put people first and achieve success with integrity. The company, through its subsidiaries, provides collection, recycling and disposal services to millions of residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers throughout the U.S. and Canada. With innovative infrastructure and capabilities in recycling, organics and renewable energy, WM provides environmental solutions to and collaborates with its customers in helping them achieve their sustainability goals. WM has the largest disposal network and collection fleet in North America, is the largest recycler of post-consumer materials and is the leader in beneficial reuse of landfill gas, with a growing network of renewable natural gas plants and the most gas-to-electricity plants in North America. WM's fleet includes nearly 11,000 natural gas trucks - the largest heavy-duty natural gas truck fleet of its kind in North America - where more than half are fueled by renewable natural gas. To learn more about WM and the company's sustainability progress and solutions, visit Sustainability.WM.com.

About the Team

What is the value of a WM job? At WM we know that the value of a WM job is more than a paycheck. It's a way to create opportunities for you and your family. This is why we are constantly working to make WM a great place to work and grow a career. We Are WM is what defines the perks of being in the WM family - from benefits, to resources and engagement activities.

We are People First. We are Committed to Your Growth. We Are Investing in You. We are a Family. We are Stable. We are Always Working for a Sustainable Tomorrow.