Staff Accountant - Accounts Receivable

With over 1200 employees currently, CBE has been providing quality jobs throughout the US for 90 years—and we’re still going strong because we offer employees:
* Excellent benefits package; medical, dental, and vision coverages, 401K retirement plan with company match, tuition reimbursement, paid time off, amongst many other perks!
* Ongoing training & support!
* Career culture with many opportunities for advancement!

Come work for Training magazine Top 100 award winner! Also recently recognized for the second year in a row as a Top Workplace in the USA, CBE is committed to “doing the right thing”; we invest in you from the date of hire and throughout your career, allowing CBE to develop a successful workforce ready to solve problems for our clients.

We pride ourselves on a diverse and inclusive corporate culture with a strong track record of success—and we’re looking for people who value opportunity, challenge, innovation, results, and FUN!

Invest in your future with a company that will invest in YOU!
* Ensure the proper safeguarding, processing, and depositing of all debtors, consumer, and client payments received for all payment types per company policy and client mandated requirements.
* Provide dual controls for all incoming payments by opening mail in secure room with Administrative Office Support Specialist.
* Daily processing of consumer payments which entails locating the correct account within multiple databases, verifying payment amount, and applying payment to appropriate debt. The types of payments processed include but are not limited to:  + Mailed in payments  + Payments forwarded from Attorneys’ Offices  + Auto Pay’s (Checks by phone)  +   + Prior day exceptions  + Paid Client (PC) reported payments  + Returned Checks (NSF)/ Credit Card Chargebacks
* Creation of daily bank deposits, both physical and electronic.  Physical deposits require verifying that all cash payments received are accounted for and totaled for deposit.  Electronic deposits require the scanning of all check items and uploading of an image file directly to the bank.
* Client specific processing of payments to meet deadlines for month end cutoffs.
* Review and process all operations submitted consumer payment refund requests or stop pay requests to ensure timeline processing meets client requirements and held days for NSF protection.
* PAROR tracking review and verify all paid agency over payment refunds from client and consumer activity for prior week to ensure any over payments are processed back to the proper recipient per client / consumer / compliance deadlines and retaining all required documentation for audit purposes.
* Provide guidance to Client Relationship Management team on existing clients and how to process or return recalled, closed, or inactive consumer accounts for proper consumer debt posting in client system.
* Reconcile daily transactions posted into the Accounting System
* Preparation and reconciliation of monthly work papers for general ledger account balance verification and management review
* Assists with annual, client, or internal audits as required
* Assist daily work task completion with Payments Processors in accordance with client requirements
* General accounting support and special projects as assigned
* Must adhere to mandatory schedule requirements for critical, time sensitive job responsibilities to include: client remittances, client invoicing, and daily cash approvals.
* Maintain process documentation and annual reviews for all task functions in accounts receivable and revenue work streams
* Special projects as assigned
* Answer accounting and financial questions by researching and interpreting data
* Requires a proactive team engagement in alignment with CBE’s Corporate Vision
* The Company reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position as appropriate.
* Must be able to perform the essential job duties of the position.  Reasonable accommodations will be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities.
* Hybrid position after training completion (3-4 days/week in the office)
* Two-year accounting degree preferred with minimum of two years of payment posting / processing,…