Accounts Receivable Specialist

Are you looking for purpose-driven work where you can have a positive impact on communities around the world? If so, then Committee for Children is an amazing place to grow your career as an Accounts Receivable Specialist. We’re a social enterprise dedicated to advancing the well-being of children through the development of essential human skills. As an Accounts Receivable Specialist at CFC, you’ll deliver accurate and timely accounts receivable, billing, collections, reporting, and sales order processing activities, serving as the primary AR point of contact for customers. This role owns the full collections lifecycle, prepares customer invoicing and performs multistate sales tax and Washington B&O reconciliations. The Specialist also supports cash planning, maintains key AR metrics, acts as the primary backup for full cycle order processing, and contributes to month end close and compliance related deliverables.

What you’ll do when you join us:

Accounts Receivable, Billing & Collections

• Prepare and issue accurate invoices in NetSuite/360 Billing—validating billing inputs and accuracy across grants, royalties, reseller billing, refunds, credit memos, and customer updates.
• Manage end-to-end collections activities, including customer outreach, portal setup, vendor forms, follow-ups, escalations, and AR inbox/phone communication.
• Maintain AR aging, reconcile customer balances, research discrepancies, and resolve overdue or disputed accounts.
• Ensure all billing and AR processes comply with internal controls, documentation standards, and audit requirements.

Cash Application & Forecasting

• Develop accurate collection timing estimates and provide key inputs for weekly cash forecasts to support liquidity planning and financial decision making.
• Analyze and resolve unapplied cash by partnering with customers and accounting to ensure clean AR ledgers and accurate reporting.
• Support the cash application process, contributing to efficient cash management and continuous improvement of AR workflows.

Reporting, Analysis & Compliance Support

• Update and report AR KPIs such as Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), percent current AR, and delinquency metrics, and support month end close through schedules, reconciliations, and variance explanations.
• Prepare monthly multistate sales tax and Washington B&O reconciliation schedules and maintain accurate documentation for tax filings and audit requirements.
• Produce monthly gross sales analyses and maintain dashboards, schedules, and performance metrics for AR, collections, and sales trends.
• Generate ad hoc AR and billing reports as needed to support leadership and operational needs.
• Prepare audit samples, AR aging tie outs, and sales testing support, ensuring all AR and billing documentation is organized and audit ready.

Order Processing, Systems & Process Improvement

• Serve as an end‑to‑end backup for full sales order processing including order entry, contract validation, approval workflows, fulfillment coordination, and customer setup/maintenance.
• Identify inefficiencies in AR, billing, and order processing workflows.
• Propose automation opportunities in NetSuite, 360 Billing, Avalara, and related systems.
• Maintain and update SOPs to ensure process consistency and training readiness.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred: degrees in Accounting, Finance, Business, or highly related fields.
• 3+ years of experience in accounts receivable, billing, or related accounting functions.
• Proficiency working in ERP systems (NetSuite preferred), billing tools (360 Billing), and payment processors (Fortis).
• Experience with collections, customer account reconciliations, and invoice processing.
• Working knowledge of sales tax and experience with multi-state or local tax requirements.
• Experience supporting month-end close, including reconciliations and schedule preparation.
• Proficiency in Excel, including data validation, essential formulas, intermediate functions (such as XLOOKUP and SUMIFS), PivotTables, and conditional formatting to support effective data analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for customer and internal interactions.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, and follow‑through.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines, prioritize tasks, and work both independently and collaboratively.
• Ability to work onsite in the Seattle office or Tukwila warehouse as needed for collaboration, teambuilding, warehouse support, or periodically at management’s discretion.
• This hybrid role requires approximately 2–3 in‑person days per month in Seattle/Tukwila for team meetings, collaboration, and occasional special needs—equivalent to roughly 10–15% on-site.

The base pay for this position is $30.28-36.53 per hour. The pay offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors.

What we offer

Our benefits, perks, and rewards are aimed at helping you live your best life at CFC.

• We cover 100% of your premiums for medical, dental and vision coverage and 50% for your dependent’s medical and dental premiums
• Retirement plan + company match up to 3%; CFC
• A flexible work subsidy: $100 per month that you can use on things like phone and internet costs, office supplies, or even commuting costs
• 16 paid holidays (including winter break and 1 floating holiday), 3 weeks' vacation in your first year, and separate sick leave accrual
• Other great benefits include: monthly contribution to childcare and/or dependent expenses, FSA account, parental leave, sabbatical leave, employee assistance program, annual wellness reimbursement, growth and development opportunities, disability and life insurance.

About us

At Committee for Children, we’re dedicated to advocating for policies to enhance, gathering research to support, and developing educational programs to advance the safety and well-being of children through development of essential human skills.

We’re best known for our innovative Second Step® family of programs, which blend research and rigor with intuitive design to help young people build strengths that will help them realize their goals throughout life. We believe that if you make a positive impact on enough children, the ripple effect will help a family, school, community, and ultimately, the world.

We’re proudly building a more equitable workplace.

We’re committed to providing a place that empowers you to bring every bit of who you are to work. When you’re able to be yourself, you do your best work. It’s as simple as that.

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to cultivating a workplace in which diverse perspectives and experiences are welcomed and respected. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, without regard to race, color, age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, genetics, religion, sexual orientation, political affiliation, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Apply now and help us achieve our vision of safe children thriving in a just and peaceful world.