Staff Accountant I
Accounts Receivable
Full-Time - 40 Hours/Week
Location: Minneapolis (St. Louis Park), MN - Hybrid Remote Opportunity
Job Description
As the Nova Group, GBC Staff Accountant I, Accounts Receivable, your primary role will be to collect aging A/R from our clients. You will work with our clients and the Nova Accounting team to investigate and reconcile complex billing and payment processes, participate in meetings and produce A/R status reporting. Our A/R delays are rarely due to our valued client’s inability to pay but to internal disconnects at their end in getting invoices seen and approved by the correct individuals or departments after a project is invoiced. Client communications with will be primarily via phone and email. You will work closely with and build relationships with our clients’ AP teams, Nova Account Managers and Accounting leads. You will gain in-depth knowledge of Nova’s terms, processes and requirements along with our clients’ internal approval and payables processes. The ideal candidate will be proficient in Excel, have strong organization skills and enjoy complex research. Duties will include contacting clients by phone for aging invoices, emailing statements weekly, managing AR inbox, organizing and coding checks that come by mail, researching and assisting returning overpayments on client accounts, meeting with Account Managers to review 120+ aging, and other adhoc projects as assigned.
Requirements
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Attention to detail and accuracy
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Strong organizational skills
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Ability to communicate both internally and externally
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Ability to meet deadlines with occasional over-time required to do so
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Ability to work both independently and within the team on routine processes and projects
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Ability to work in a fast pace, high volume atmosphere
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Associate’s degree and/or accounting experience
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Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains accounting software experience preferred, but not required
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Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams
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PC and 10 key skills required
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Satisfactory driver’s license record
Physical Demands
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Requires long hours of sitting and using office equipment and computers, including repetitive movement of the hands, which can cause muscle strain.
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The position may also have to do some lifting of supplies and materials from time to time.
Working for Nova Group, GBC
Nova Group, GBC (Nova) is a privately held multidisciplinary advisory firm incorporated in 1987. We have a global footprint headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Our teams service clients throughout the United States and abroad. Nova provides services in the areas of environmental management, compliance investigation, corrective action activities, strategic energy services, and construction services. Our diverse portfolio of services creates a multitude of career possibilities, and we strive to bring on talent who want to learn and build their skills across multiple sectors of our business.​
Nova is a General Benefit Corporation (GBC) and a Certified B-Corp™. This means that our corporate values are aligned with our business practices and that we recognize our role goes beyond profitability. Beyond our articles of incorporation, we are committed to measuring our impact in four key segments: our environment, our communities, our customers, and our employees.​
To remain competitive and to differentiate ourselves from others in the industry, we continuously review our benefit programs. We offer remote, hybrid, and flexible work arrangements because we realize that personal demands don’t just happen after 5 p.m. Our culture is successful because we trust our teams to be accountable to each other and to our clients.​
Nova is committed to supporting your professional development through career ladders, training programs, and continuing education to support your certifications and licenses. We look for opportunities to build skills on the job in particular, shadowing mentors and senior staff, leveraging all they have to offer. We always want our employees to feel challenged and to strive to grow their skills and careers.
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