Accounts Receivable Officer

at  Sharp Carter

• 3 month temporary assignment with potential of extension
• Work from home flexibility (2 days in the office and 3 days from home)
• Attractive hourly rate

POSITION DESCRIPTION

Reporting to the Credit Manager and working within a large team, you will be responsible for:

• Receipting, allocation, and reconciliation of all payments across the organisation.
• Collections, debtor management and non-patient billing across varying systems and areas of the organisation.
• Working closely with the Medical Billing and Financial Control teams, and regularly interacting with patient, government and commercial entities to successfully achieve team and organisational goals.
• Responding to phone and email queries from patients and other third parties and providing appropriate resolutions, along with phone and email-based collections and debtor management across both patient and entity related accounts.
• Handling of sundry billing requests, the processing of sundry billing transactions, and the reconciliation of transactional based activity across various debtors as required.
• Setup and maintenance of debtor master data.

Reporting to the Credit Manager and working within a large team, you will be responsible for:

• Receipting, allocation, and reconciliation of all payments across the organisation.
• Collections, debtor management and non-patient billing across varying systems and areas of the organisation.
• Working closely with the Medical Billing and Financial Control teams, and regularly interacting with patient, government and commercial entities to successfully achieve team and organisational goals.
• Responding to phone and email queries from patients and other third parties and providing appropriate resolutions, along with phone and email-based collections and debtor management across both patient and entity related accounts.
• Handling of sundry billing requests, the processing of sundry billing transactions, and the reconciliation of transactional based activity across various debtors as required.
• Setup and maintenance of debtor master data

The successful applicant will ideally have experience in a similar Credit/Collections role as well as the following attributes:

• High level interpersonal and communication skills, including a proven capacity to build and maintain effective and productive relationships with both internal and external groups.
• Demonstrated ability to work accurately and effectively within a team environment while managing own priorities and deliverables.
• While not essential, Healthcare collections/billing would be highly advantageous.
• Demonstrated problem solving and issue resolution capabilities, with the ability to build into continuous systems and process improvement activity