Accounting Assistant

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Accounting Assistant managing billing, collections, payables, and financial reporting for Zelh’s logistics client. Maintaining accurate records and supporting cash-flow operations remotely.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage and monitor delivered-not-invoiced reports and coordinate missing billing documentation
  • Ensure eligible shipments are invoiced daily, Monday–Friday
  • Monitor invoice aging, customer payment terms, billing profiles, and process improvements
  • Apply customer payments and reconcile unapplied cash or discrepancies
  • Coordinate customer collections through aging monitoring, outreach, record keeping, and escalations
  • Prepare and distribute comprehensive weekly A/R reports, including aging, open invoices, high-priority collections, and cash-flow projections
  • Review carrier and vendor invoices against delivery documentation
  • Maintain carrier/vendor records, including W-9 forms, payment details, and contact information
  • Monitor payable due dates, payment terms, priorities, and weekly A/P reporting
  • Post approved vendor/carrier payments in accounting software
  • Prepare recurring financial and operational reports
  • Support accounting process improvements, reporting automation, system organization, and special projects
  • Assist with QuickBooks Online and associated financial software administration
  • Execute, monitor, and report on accounting procedures within defined approval limits

Requirements:

  • High level of precision in data entry, financial reconciliation, and record keeping
  • Clear, professional written and verbal communication
  • Strong sense of urgency and ability to meet weekly reporting, billing, and collection deadlines
  • Hands-on experience with QuickBooks Online and core accounting workflows (A/R, A/P, Collections)
  • Ability to handle confidential financial records with care and exercise sound judgment when escalating critical issues
  • Availability for Monday–Friday, 07:00–16:00 CST

Benefits:

  • 10+ business days of paid time off, increasing to 15 after 2 years
  • Equipment provided
  • Competitive salary in USD
  • Remote work