Accounts Receivable Coordinator
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.
What it's like to be a Accounts Receivable Coordinator
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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