Accounts Receivable Specialist

About the role

A finance team is looking for a detail-oriented and analytical Accounts Receivable Specialist to handle day-to-day billing, collection and payment reconciliation. The role uses Power BI to build visual reports, track collection metrics and analyse aging accounts. Prior experience in healthcare or medical billing is strongly preferred.

Key responsibilities

• Manage full-cycle accounts receivable: generate invoices, post daily payments and process credit memos.
• Monitor outstanding patient and third-party payer balances and follow up on delinquent accounts.
• Reconcile complex accounts, identify billing discrepancies and resolve outstanding balances.
• Assist with month-end and year-end financial closing related to AR.
• Build and maintain Power BI dashboards for cash collections, Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) and aging trends.
• Turn raw billing and clearinghouse data into insights for executives and finance managers, and present automated weekly/monthly AR KPIs.
• Navigate third-party payer rules, commercial insurance billing and Medicare/Medicaid guidelines where applicable.
• Verify claims status, review insurance denials and submit appeals or corrected claims.
• Handle financial and healthcare data in line with HIPAA and patient privacy regulations.

Required profile

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of dedicated accounts receivable experience.
• Understanding of medical billing workflows, claims management, CPT/ICD-10 coding context and payer reimbursement (a plus).
• Strong analytical problem solving, written and verbal communication and attention to detail.

Required skills

• Hands-on Power BI: building reports, querying datasets and creating financial dashboards.
• ERP/accounting systems such as NetSuite, QuickBooks, Epic or Cerner.
• Intermediate-to-advanced Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP).