Accounts Receivable Associate

**PEARSON JOB DESCRIPTION**

**JOB TITLE: AR Associate** **LOCATION: India**

**DEPARTMENT: Vue Finance** **REPORTS TO (Title)**: ACCOUNT RECEIVABLE & CREDIT CONTROL- MANAGER

**CORE COMPETENCIES**
- Detail Oriented
- Communication Skills
- Problem Solving
- Organizing Skills
- Customer Focus
- Ethics and Value

**SCOPE AND IMPACT OF JOB**

Working closely with India finance team and US finance team. AR Associate, takes ownership of clerical and administrative services to ensure efficient, timely and accurate payment of accounts under his or her control.

**REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE**

**Education and Experience**:

- Only Commerce graduate can apply
- Min 6 months corporate experience is required
- Exposure in a testing environment strongly preferred

**Skills, Knowledge and Abilities**:

- Strong written communication skills
- Ability to work independently
- Effective time management skills
- Ability to handle a reasonable amount of stress
- Strong attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
- Alertness and courage
- Ethics and trust
- Knowledge in operating a computer, fax, and other office equipment.

**PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES**
- **Bank Reconciliation**
- Reconciliation of payments.
- Coordinating with Cash team to upload incoming receipts related to testing Center.
- Communicate and work with Customer service team with queries related to AR.
- Reconciliation of incoming checks received in lockbox.
- Cor-ordinate with Japan team for issuing Qualified invoice in Japan
- **Aging**
- Working on preparing the excel sheet for the test centres those have invoices overdue on their account.
- Identifying closed and deactivated test centres.
- Working with test centres for the queries related to invoices sent to them.
- Work closely with other team members on the complete aging management.
- **Other duties as assigned**

**WORK ENVIRONMENT AND CONDITIONS**

Physical requirements:

- Be comfortable to work in a quiet testing environment
- Be flexible in work hours

**What to expect from Pearson**

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**Job**: FINANCE

**Organization**: Assessment & Qualifications

**Schedule**: FULL\_TIME

**Req ID**: 15398