Financial Analyst/ Staff Accountant, Accounts Receivable

Our Managed Services Telecommunication Company is looking to enhance our Finance team in our Houston office with an experienced mid-level Staff Accountant, focused in Accounts Receivable. We are seeking an ambitious, energetic, and highly- motivated team player to come in during a time of transition. We are changing our allocations of workload and increasing the responsibility for the role. This is a new role for the company and would highly value a candidate with NetSuite experience as we transition to NetSuite from Quickbooks. This role will report to our Accounts Receivable Manager and be part of a team of four.

This role will be confident in their previous experiences to be an escalation point for the AR Clerks and take on delegated work from the manager. They will be key in enhancing and documenting our updated policies and procedures. The candidate will capitalize on their previous experience in supporting financial reporting and analysis, improving the quality of financial information.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure ongoing monthly deliverables, including but not limited to: revenue recognition for various projects, month-end close actions, review of all equipment revenue and costs, client revenue review, milestone billing and shipping deliverables.
• Responsible for the full life cycle of the collections process for our larger house accounts and top customers.
• Ensure smooth transparent process for weekly AR aging report – shown to senior leadership.
• Prepare journal entries for the month-end process, escalating to manager for any situations outside of the SOP.
• Active member of the Finance team and senior within the AR team. Will act as backup to the AR Clerk 2.
• Remain current on industry and compliance regulations that ensure Meriplex is ahead of the curve.
• Develop relationships with customers, vendors, and internal teams.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5+ years of general accounting experience with 2+ within a focus in accounts receivable or general ledger responsibilities required.
• 2+ years experience within mid-enterprise or enterprise companies required.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university/college required. Finance or accounting focus preferred.
• Experience with accounts/ customer reconciliation required.
• Experience working within CRMs or ERPs, NetSuite experience preferred.
• Prior Telecommunications and/or IT infrastructure experience highly preferred, ability to understand monthly recurring business strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to drive timelines and escalate, as necessary.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision – can take direction the first time received.
• Strong competence to motivate and influence key stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with multiple internal teams, from individual contributors to senior executives, as well as building/maintaining relationships with customers, partners, alliances etc.
• Must be comfortable with complexity and thinking on multiple levels of abstraction; demonstrates use of critical thinking techniques.
• Sound business acumen skills; thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic growth-oriented work environment.
• Advanced to excellent spoken and written communication, interpersonal, and relationship building skills.

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