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Accounts Receivable Specialist Jobs in North York, Ontario, Canada at Progress Luv2Pak
Title: Accounts Receivable Specialist
Company: Progress Luv2Pak
Location: North York, Ontario, Canada
Job Overview
Reporting to the Accounting Manager, this role is a great opportunity for an Accounts Receivable professional who thrives in a fast-moving, flexible, and team-focused environment. We are looking for someone who can go beyond transactional AR work and help broaden the function by bringing more depth, process improvement, and strategic value to the role.
As our business continues to evolve and grow rapidly, we are seeking someone who is adaptable, collaborative, and eager to contribute to process improvements and stronger financial operations. This role offers a strong learning opportunity for a candidate looking to build and deepen their Accounts Receivable expertise.
Once the individual has established a solid foundation and demonstrated strong performance in AR, we will provide opportunities for cross-training in other accounting functions, treasury and controllership to broaden their overall understanding of the business and support future career growth within the organization.
Duties
- Generate and issue accurate customer invoices, credit memos, and account statements
- Post and reconcile incoming payments including ACH, wire transfers, checks, EFT, and credit card transactions
- Monitor accounts receivable aging and follow up on past-due balances in a timely and professional manner
- Manage customer credit profiles and risk assessment, including credit limit reviews and sales order credit approvals
- Communicate with customers regarding outstanding invoices, payment terms, variances, and disputes
- Investigate and resolve billing discrepancies, pricing differences and deductions
- Reconcile customer accounts and maintain accurate AR records in the ERP system
- Work closely with sales, customer service, logistics, and warehouse teams to resolve shipment, delivery, and invoice issues
- Prepare daily and biweekly sales activity reports for management
- Maintain collection budget and forecast, analyze discrepancies, and provide weekly updates to management
- Manage and reconcile monthly sales commission report
- Bank reconciliation and account management
- Maintain customer files, tax documents, resale certificates, and other account-related records
- Assist with month-end close and annual audit
- Help improving AR processes, reporting, and collections efficiency as the company grows
- Other accounting tasks and projects as assigned
Qualifications
- Bachelor degree in Accounting or Finance, or equivalent
- Minimum of 2 years relevant experience in full cycle Accounts Receivable
- Positive and upbeat personality
- A focused, meticulous approach to complete tasks with high level of accuracy is paramount
- Must demonstrate the ability to think critically and solve problems under minimum direction
- Outstanding time management skills with a strong sense of deadline
- Excellent English communication and interpersonal skills, both in written and verbal
- Strong organizational skills and task follow-ups to ensure completeness
- Demonstrates a strong willingness to learn and readily embraces new ideas and technologies
- Take initiative, dependable and exhibiting high degree of professionalism
- Intermediate to advanced skills in Excel
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with NetSuite ERP
- Experience with Export Development Canada and its credit profile management
- Knowledge of import/export environments and customer billing related to sales taxes, duties and tariff
- Familiarity with costing and profitability analysis
- Progress towards CPA designation is an asset
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: $70,000.00-$80,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
- Vision care
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree (required)
Experience:
- Accounts Receivable: 2 years (required)
- Work Location: In person
