Accounts Receivable Specialist – IZEA
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IZEA (201-500 Employees, 16% 2 Yr Employee Growth Rate)
16% 1-Year Employee Growth Rate | 16% 2-Year Employee Growth Rate | LinkedIn | $34.9M Venture Funding
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About Us
IZEA (NASDAQ: IZEA) provides leading Fortune 500 brands with SaaS technology and professional services to develop highly scalable Influencer Marketing and bespoke Content Marketing initiatives. A Russell 1000 component, IZEA has been recognized and awarded repeatedly for its campaign work, technological innovation, most importantly, as a ‘top place to work’ and ‘best work-life balance’ as rated by its team members.
The company serves as a champion for the growing Creator Economy, enabling individuals to monetize their content, creativity, and influence. IZEA launched the industry’s first-ever influencer marketing platform in 2006 and has since facilitated nearly 4 million transactions between online buyers and sellers.
IZEA is focused on promoting an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate the different viewpoints and experiences our diverse group of team members bring to our company.
Headquartered in Central Florida, we provide a modern, remote workplace that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds and viewpoints. Our team member locale concentrations currently span 95 cities and 12 countries around the world.
About the Role
As the Accounts Receivable Specialist, you will be responsible for setting up and maintaining customer accounts, monitoring accounts, and proactively following up with customers on outstanding receivables. Additional responsibilities include: communicating with customers to manage the process of collections, working to minimize past due balances, resolution of customer billing issues, and providing reporting to the finance team.
IZEA’s workforce is currently 100% remote and the ideal candidate thrives with the freedom and flexibility this structure provides.
Your Responsibilities
You will…
- Generate invoices per contract billing schedule and/or requests from internal team or customer
- Ensure invoices are issued in accordance with contract terms
- Maintain customer accounts, including details of customer-specific invoicing requirements
- Perform credit checks for new and existing customers in accordance with company processes
- Work with customers to facilitate new vendor setup and maintenance
- Monitor AR aging and perform timely collection outreach to customers
- Respond to customer inquiries related to billing and payments, research and resolve any discrepancies
- Prepare routine reports, respond to ad hoc report requests, and compile data for management review
- Maintain clear and comprehensive documentation to support financial reporting and controls, including SOX compliance
- Perform other duties as assigned to support the finance team
What we’re looking for…
You have…
- 5+ years of related work experience performing billing and receivables processes or other relevant experience
- Demonstrated knowledgeable of general accounting principles
- Knowledgeable of accounts receivable cycle from order to cash, including laws and policies related to debt collection
- Perform intermediate Excel functions with the ability to create, edit, and present financial data and ad hoc reporting
- Understand financial controls and perform tasks while achieving a high-level of accuracy
- Experience communicating remotely with colleagues and customers through email, messaging apps, and virtual meetings
- Ability to work well individually and collaboratively in a fast-paced fully-remote environment
- Strong communication and problem solving skills
- Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new software
Experience working with the following will be highly valued:
- Associates degree in finance or business, or equivalent experience
- Experience with macOS and “for Mac” Microsoft Office software applications
- Experience with Salesforce
- Experience with various AP portals (ApexPortal, Ariba, Bill.com, Coupa, Taulia, Tungsten, etc.)
- Experience in the Marketing Technology and/or Influencer Marketing industries
- Experience using Sage Intacct with Contracts module
Why would you want to work here?
The act of hiring is not simply to up the headcount or to fill a seat quickly. When we hire at IZEA, it’s to add to our strong existing roster of talent and choose the right individual to impact, collaborate, commit, inspire, and grow alongside our tenured teams.
IZEA has been ranked a ‘Top Place to Work’ by the Orlando Sentinel for the past 5 years and has been recognized by Comparably as a ‘Top 50 Best Work-Life Balance’ employer. We take great pride in creating a positive work environment for all our employees – from our investment in team member ongoing education, to the ability to influence real change across our business – we are dedicated to your long-term growth and success.
At IZEA, you have an opportunity to make an impact on a global scale. IZEA connects leading brands with a network of nearly one million opt-in creators ranging from TikTok stars to travel bloggers and everyone in-between. We are the pioneers fueling the democratization of information, entertainment, marketing, and commerce. Our platforms fuel the burgeoning Creator Economy, filled with the next generation of artists, poets, filmmakers, photographers, thought leaders, comics, actors, and musicians. What you do here will impact hundreds of thousands of people directly and influence the actions of millions more.
We provide a modern, virtual workplace that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds and viewpoints. IZEA places value on action and results. We seek individuals that thrive in a challenging and fast-evolving work environment. While the company is over 15 years old, our executives remain active player-coaches — they roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty by working side-by-side with our team members across all levels of seniority to accomplish our common goals. IZEA is focused on promoting an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate the different viewpoints and experiences our diverse group of team members bring to our company.
If you are the very best at what you do and seeking an opportunity to attack the “never been done before” with a passionate team of dreamers and doers, we encourage you to apply.
California residents, please use the following link to view the types of information we may gather from California residents who are applicants, employees, or contractors of IZEA, and how we use such information: https://izea.com/california-employee-applicant-independent-contractor-privacy-notice