Accounts Receivable Analyst

The Company

**Are you looking to join an organization that is growing and dynamic? What about a high-energy, collaborative environment that rewards hard work?**

J.S. Held is a global consulting firm providing technical, scientific, and financial expertise across all assets and value at risk. Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to organizations facing high-stakes events demanding urgent attention, staunch integrity, clear-cut analysis, and an understanding of both tangible and intangible assets. The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services, products, and data that enable clients to navigate complex, contentious, and often catastrophic situations**. **We have over 100 locations worldwide. We are highly committed to all members of our community, both employees and clients. Our organization focuses on promoting a sense of community and inspiring our people to achieve results that exceed goals.

The Team and Job Summary

We are seeking a high energy contributor to join our Accounts Receivable team. This is a unique opportunity for an entrepreneurial, highly driven person with a well-rounded skill set to join the Accounts Receivable team, whose responsibilities extend beyond those of traditional receivables work. The ideal person for this role will need to not only have a strong grasp of business-to-business collections, but also be flexible and a strategic thinker able to take on a variety of tasks.

Job Responsibilities
- Establish client or payor contact and initiate receivables process.
- High volume AR/Collection for assigned areas which may have complex billing requirements and/or need advanced reconciliation.
- Remove obstacles preventing payment.
- Develop timelines and agreement with client’s on when payment will be made.
- Record contact information, communications and collection efforts in our ERP system.
- Follow up as necessary.
- Investigate and resolve issues related to chargebacks, short payments and outstanding invoices
- Various accounting and administrative projects as assigned by management
- Manage collections for West Coast receivables.

Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a high-volume business-to-business collections or billing environment
- ERP/proprietary software experience
- Experience with third party payors
- Extensive experience with Microsoft Office Suite (e.g. Excel, Word, Outlook)

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in an insurance or professional services environment
- Associate’s degree or higher

Physical and Mental Job Qualifications
- Must be able to work independently with minimum supervision and within a team environment.
- Ability to effectively communicate in both written and verbal format with upper-level management.
- Ability to build and maintain good relationships with clients as well as internal project managers and area leads.
- Well organized and detail oriented. Must be able to prioritize tasks.
- Proactive and able to make recommendations to improve invoicing and accounts receivable processes.
- Flexible and able to quickly adapt to new systems and the changing needs of a growing company.

J.S. Held is dedicated to becoming the global leader in providing multi-disciplinary consulting services to the construction, government, healthcare, industrial, insurance, energy, legal, and technology, communities. We have diverse practice areas including Construction Advisory, Financial Investigations, Forensic Accounting & Economics, Forensic Architecture & Engineering, Surety, Environmental Health & Safety, Equipment, Toxicology, and Building & Property Consulting, among other disciplines. J.S. Held is devoted to recruiting and cultivating top industry talent to build a collaborative and diverse team of experts. We leverage our experience to provide local, cost-efficient solutions and an unrivaled client experience.

Our **mission **is to serve as trusted, expert advisors to organizations around the world facing high-stakes situations that demand urgent attention, exceptional knowledge, staunch integrity and objective, clear-cut analysis and advice.

Some of the Benefits We Have Include

J.S. Held understands all of our employees are people and sometimes life needs flexibility. We work to always provide an environment that best supports and suits our team’s needs.
- Our flexible work environment allows employees to work remotely when needed
- Generous Annual Leave Policy
- Comprehensive Medical Insurance

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

EEO and Job Accommodations
- We embrace diversity and our commitment to building a team and environment that fosters professional and personal enrichment is unwavering. We are greater when we are equal_
- J.S. Held is an equal opportunity employe