Senior Accounts Receivable Specialist (Ar Specialist)

Senior AR work threads across complex customer accounts, junior-specialist mentoring, and cross-functional engagement — leading reconciliation work on major-customer accounts, supporting junior specialists on difficult cases, working with sales and customer service on disputed amounts, contributing to AR-process improvement. DSO trends and unapplied-cash management anchor the operating measures.

What complicates the work is the relationship-and-discipline balancing — senior AR specialists handle the customer accounts where revenue and relationship considerations sometimes pull against AR discipline, and the role navigates the tradeoff while keeping the ledger accurate. Variance across employers shapes the role: large corporates run senior AR specialists within structured shared-services functions; mid-size companies run with broader scope; healthcare AR carries payer-specific complexity at senior levels.

It fits people detail-tolerant with ledger work, comfortable across difficult customer-side conversations, and steady through month-end pressure cycles. CCRA and credit-association credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the cumulative friction load — senior AR work involves sustained engagement with customer disputes about money, and the role asks for sustained diplomatic discipline.