Sitting between sales, collections, and the GL, you keep the AR cycle moving — coordinating cash application, chasing aged invoices, working customer disputes, and making sure the receivables sub-ledger ties to the books each month.
Most weeks tend to mix aging-report deep dives, customer dispute calls, and cross-team coordination with sales and credit. You'll often live in the ERP (NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, JDE) and Excel side-by-side, working stuck invoices and broken matches. DSO, write-off rates, and clean monthly aging tend to be how progress shows up.
The harder part is often operating between teams that don't fully share priorities — sales doesn't love hearing about collection holds; credit doesn't love hearing about sales pressure. Variance across companies can be sharp: SaaS shops run automated billing; manufacturing and distribution lean on EDI and manual reconciliation; services firms run project-based AR. Month-end compresses the calendar around the 5th or 10th.
Folks who do well here tend to enjoy the spreadsheet untangling and the diplomacy by turns — patience with detail pays off, so does even-tempered phone presence with sales and customers. The trade-off is being measured by exception — invisible when cash applies cleanly, visible when it doesn't. Many use AR coordinator work as a credible path into broader accounting or finance roles.
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View all Admin & Office roles →Sitting between sales, collections, and the GL, you keep the AR cycle moving — coordinating cash application, chasing aged invoices, working customer disputes, and making sure the receivables sub-ledger ties to the books each month.
Median pay for an Accounts Receivable Coordinator is about $49K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $35K to $72K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Core skills for this role include Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Speaking, Critical Thinking, and Time Management.
Employment in this field is projected to decline about 6.2% through 2034, with roughly 11,960 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Controller, Credit Products Officer, and Senior Credit Products Officer.
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