Accounting Clerk

We are looking for an experienced accouting clerk/accounts receivable professional to join an exciting and rapidly growing biotech client of ours. Details below:

• 100% on site to begin
• Contract to potential hire
• Pay: $24-$26hr

Summary: The Accounting Clerk will be directly supporting the Accounting department with all transactional activities related to general ledger, banks, taxes, billings and collections, fixed assets and other areas as assigned.

Essential Functions:

Treasury activities:

• Downloading and saving all payment remittances and correspondence online
• Sorting mail (checks, tax notices, invoices, other dept mail, delivered to proper department, scanning emailing or uploading docs)
• Scanning checks received by mail and managing deposit to the respective bank lock box (commercial
• lab) or bank account (oncology business)
• Uploading the PNC Bank mail to the finance folders
• Entering bank payments in respective logs (non-commercial lab, commercial lab customers)
• Posting payments from logs in SAP
• Checking adjustments on bank log for accuracy and posting in to SAP
• Creating Self pay adjustment files and posting in SAP
• Downloading bank reconciliation data and saving in respective bank reconciliation files for each bank account for review and reconciliation by senior accountant

Billing activities:

• Maintaining accounts billable file and invoicing management
• Posting all pharma lab billings on logs
• Checking customer contract log for any new contracts that need billing (service billable, service contracts, pharma lab SOW) and providing to senior accountant
• Checking contract log for new pricing agreements and entering in SAP after senior accountant
• approval

Credit and collection activities:

• Upload invoices to the various customer portals
• Mailing patient statements, welcome letters, and PIF letters
• Completing collection activities (data clean up, research, customers calls to collect on open AR)

Ledger/accounting/tax activities:

• Monthly JE file naming for new month journal entries
• Finance Logs (invoices, statements, tax remittances, etc) maintaining and auditing for completeness and accuracy
• Downloading and saving tax documents, including tax notices

Required Experience:

• Community College degree in Finance or Accounting or related fields is preferred
• Accounting experience is a plus