AR / AP Accounting Analyst

Overview

This role supports global Accounts Receivable (AR), collections, and related accounting activities, with cross-training for Accounts Payable (AP) as backup coverage. Work hours are 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time (night shift locally), with full overlap with U.S. clients and the finance team, including during training.

Responsibilities

Own Global AR and Collections

• Generate accurate customer invoices on schedule, checking terms against contracts, purchase orders, and non-standard agreements.
• Maintain invoicing schedules and global customer master records in financial systems.
• Use customer invoicing portals to submit invoices and follow up.
• Proactively contact business clients about past-due balances by phone and email across international time zones.
• Discuss payment arrangements, respond to incoming calls, and maintain professional client relationships.
• Research and resolve billing discrepancies, disputes, and customer questions with project managers, commercial teams, and finance colleagues.
• Void invoices, issue credits, and record customer payments, verifying amounts, currencies, and transaction dates for accuracy.
• Prepare, reconcile, and analyze monthly AR aging files.
• Support monthly and quarterly close procedures with attention to how transactions affect the books.

Provide Backup AP Support

• Cross-train across the full AP lifecycle to provide coverage while keeping AR as the primary responsibility.
• Review, code, and process vendor invoices, expense reports, and travel claims.
• Support weekly payment runs, fund transfers, and vendor bank detail verification.
• Monitor global AP mailboxes, help resolve vendor inquiries, and maintain AP standard operating procedures.

Support Accounting and Audit

• Prepare balance sheet and ledger reconciliations for AR and AP accounts.
• Provide transaction documentation for internal and external audits.
• Maintain accurate financial data and support ad hoc accounting projects.

Requirements

• Relevant accounting or finance experience with hands-on responsibility for full-cycle AR, credit control, and business-to-business collections.
• Working knowledge of general ledger accounting, invoice reconciliation, and month-end close, including how invoices, credits, voids, and payments affect accounting records.
• Experience using a large enterprise resource planning (ERP) system (e.g., Workday, Oracle, or SAP).
• Experience working with multiple currencies and the attention to detail to record invoices and payments correctly.
• Strong spoken and written English, including confidence to initiate calls, discuss and negotiate payments, and resolve questions with customers across regions and time zones.
• Collaborative approach: proactively follow up, ask questions, and work through issues with project managers and the finance team.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including lookups and pivot tables.
• Practical approach to solving billing and payment issues, discretion with confidential financial data, and ability to balance AR priorities with backup AP coverage.
• Availability to work the stated U.S. Eastern Time schedule.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with accounts payable workflows.
• Experience working in a professional services environment.
• Experience using Projector or Workday PSA.
• Experience with customer invoicing portals, particularly Coupa or Ariba.
• Experience using AI tools in work or personal projects, with examples of how they were useful.

Compensation & Benefits

• Not specified in the job posting.

Location

• U.S. Eastern Time schedule (9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.).

Additional Information

• Estimated application deadline: 2026-12-11. The fill date is flexible, and the role remains open until filled.
• Equal Opportunity Employer. Consideration is provided without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records are considered in a manner consistent with applicable law, including any applicable fair chance law.
• Work Authorization: Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the Employing Country.
• Recruitment Fraud Alert: Official job contact is limited to approved channels. The employer will not ask candidates for money, banking details, or sensitive personal information as a condition of employment.
• Candidates currently employed by a client of the organization or an affiliated business may not be eligible for consideration.