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Billing Specialist

ARA Brand, Albuquerque, NM, United States


Billing Specialist

Job Category: Finance & Accounting Requisition Number: BILLI009701
Full-Time Hybrid Albuquerque, NM 87110, USA
Description

What you'll do as a Billing Specialist:
Ensures customer payment terms are correct and monitors aging of invoices; making collection calls as necessary
Works closely with internal stakeholders and customers on collections
Maintains files, update and track collections status and comments
Generates billing for Fixed Price, Time & Materials and Cost-Plus Fee contracts
Reconciles billing to monthly project summaries to ensure billing accuracy and completeness
Coordinate billing review and approval with program manager and billing supervisor
Submit customer billing through customer portals for your own projects and others on the team
Ensures processes adhere to company procedures and deadlines with accurate and timely results
Collaborate with the billing team on group projects as needed
Performs additional duties or special projects as needed
Billing Specialist Requirements:
Four to five years of accounting experience or at least two years of accounting/business administration college credit hours
High School Diploma
Proficiency in Excel
Strong oral and written communication skills necessary to interact diplomatically and tactfully with all levels of internal and external customers with the highest level of professionalism
Demonstrated attention to detail
Professional, reliable, willing to learn and take initiative
Ability to handle multiple tasks and meet deadlines
Billing Specialist Preferences:
Bachelor's degree in accounting or a related field
Prior work experience in a government contracting environment, billing cost reimbursable contracts, time and materials and fixed price
Deltek Costpoint billing experience
Experience with State Department of Transportation, Federal Highways, and Department of Defense billing
Experience using Wide Area Workflow for government billing
Prior experience working collections and communicating with customers
HYBRID WORK NOTICE: This position is available for hybrid work consideration at any of our division offices. Preference will be given to those near the Albuquerque office.
Applied Research Associates, Inc. Company Information:
Applied Research Associates, Inc. is a 100% employee-owned international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. We invite you to visit our website to learn more about who we are, what we do, the excellent careers and benefits we offer and explore some of our featured offices.
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