Summary

/Objective:The Accounting Associate is responsible for collecting outstanding balances, bad debts, to coordinate the credit extension process and processing invoices to achieve a goal of processing vendor payments on a timely and accurate basis.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities:

To make collection calls on delinquent Samtec accounts and credit hold accounts.

To work with Sales, Operations and Shipping to suspend shipments to customers with excessive over-due balances.

To process credit checks on new and existing customers as needed.This includes calling for credit reference, requesting and evaluating financial information, and using Dunn and Bradstreet reports.

To perform credit release on shipments using pre-established guidelines.

To recommend accounts to write-off as bad debt and maintain information on those accounts written off including coordinating any information required by the collection agency.

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