Ready, set, go! Put your career in motion with a great, new opportunity. Join the Kelly® Professional & Industrial team as a Credit and Collections Specialist with a world-class equipment and services company that sustainably advances the noble work of protective packaging system.

Why you should apply to be a Credit and Collections Specialist:

• Pay Rate: $25.00 per hour

  
  

• Location: Roselle, IL

  
  

• Schedule: 7:30am – 4:00pm

  
  

• Employment Type: Possible Temp to Hire

What’s a typical day as a Credit and Collections Specialist? You will:

• Conduct a daily collection of calls to customers and sales representatives. 

• Communicate with both internal and external customers, while handling a consistent stream of inbound and outbound collection calls for their assigned portfolio, as well as from the collection queue. 

• Communicate, as needed, with top management at the customer level and internally. 

• Reconcile activity for a larger and higher profile territory of accounts that may include National 

• Accounts, High Profile Accounts or Specialty type accounts. 

• Interface with customers, Sales Representatives, Sales Managers. Notify sales personnel of potential problem accounts, blocked orders, and reconciliation issues such as short pay, short ships, and tax issues. 

• Run aging reports and work reports to resolution for the assigned territory. This includes aging reports, unapplied cash reports, short pay reports, unapplied credit reports, aged items over 180 days, and miscellaneous project related reports. 

• Make calls on a daily basis, contacting customers, working with the Sales Representatives and/or 

• Managers and escalating problem accounts to departmental management. Provide weekly/monthly updates to management. 

• Provide daily reconciliation on accounts to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the A/R. These include, but are not limited to, analyzing and processing offsets and write off requests, pulling check copies to confirm correct application of payments, and working with the sales force on pricing and freight issues. 

• Identify and manage Credit Risk and assign credit limits. 

• Maintain credit exposure on accounts and request additional credit information as needed. 

• Evaluate credit information received to assign appropriate credit limits within established parameters. 

• This evaluation may include the retrieval and review of financial statements, D&B Reports and bank and trade references. 

This job might be an outstanding fit if you have:

• Accounting experience

  
  

• High school diploma or accredited GED

What happens next?

Once you apply, you’ll proceed to the next steps if your skills and experience look like a good fit. But don’t worry—even if this position doesn’t work out, you’re still in our network. That means all our recruiters at Kelly will have access to your profile, expanding your opportunities even more!

Helping you discover what’s next in your career is what we’re all about, so let’s get to work. Apply to be a Credit and Collections Specialist today!

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