NYSID Employment Opportunities

Summary: Build, manage and improve accounts receivable relationships with significant customers. Produce monthly written reports on the status and progress of the accounts to ensure resolving issues efficiently and in a timely manner.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Cultivating and maintaining customer relationships to identify issues and facilitate timely payments
• Collection of outstanding receivable dollars from significant customers, as well as, resolving customer billing issues or problems
• Identifying, maintaining and updating the appropriate contacts on significant customers
• Researching and resolving account and billing discrepancies
• Performing account and payment reconciliations
• Documenting daily activity
• Identifying financial exposure
• Producing monthly analysis and reporting on the customers and their accounts
• Other duties as assigned 

The requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skills and abilities required for the position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Qualifications:

• This position requires impeccable customer service skills, adept communication proficiency, and a meticulous eye for detail

   

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to interact      professionally with customers and other departments

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business Administration or related field

   

• 5 - 7 years’ experience in finance or accounting position including minimum of 5 years of corporate collections experience

• Proven problem solving, mathematical, analytical and organizational skills

   

• Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast paced, high volume work environment

   

• Ability to work independently and in collaboration with diverse groups of people

   

• Integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed

   

• Must be detail oriented, dependable and efficient

   

• Proficiency with various computer software applications including computerized accounting systems (Great Plains Dynamics preferred), databases, spreadsheets and word processing (Microsoft Office Suite preferred). 

   

Physical Requirements:

Nature of job requires considerable computer, keyboard and mouse usage, walking around facilities and sitting for long periods of time.  Must have visual acuity and hearing ability for communicating with others and gathering and accessing written and computerized information.  Ability to access any locations where company business is conducted.

About NYSID:

NYSID is the Non-Profit organization designated by the NYS Education Department under the New York State Finance law to serve New York’s Preferred Source program, which works to provide gainful employment for New Yorkers with disabilities. Rehabilitative agencies throughout New York State which provide support services to individuals with disabilities, choose to become members of NYSID. On behalf of these members, and sometimes in conjunction with private sector partners, NYSID enters into contracts with state and local government agencies for goods and services which disabled New Yorkers create or perform. 

Come Join Our Team! 

We offer medical and dental benefits (80% paid by NYSID), a retirement program (5%+ of gross income), paid time off, tuition reimbursement, group life insurance and other benefits. We have been named a Top Work Place, most recently in 2023 by the Albany Times Union. 

Email cover letter, resume and salary requirements to administrator@nysid.org We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $60-68K

Schedule:

37.5 hour work week
Monday to Friday

Work Location: Albany, New York. 

Benefits:

401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Employee assistance program
Flexible schedule
Flexible spending account
Health insurance
Health reimbursement account
Life insurance
Paid time off
Tuition reimbursement
Vision insurance

Summary:  The Accounts Payable responsibilities include processing member agency invoices, weekly check runs, preparing daily bank deposits and daily processing of customer credit card transactions. 

Essential Functions and Responsibilities: 

• Enter accurate accounts payable transactions in the accounting system.
• Enter and match payable of member agency invoices to the applicable open order and monitor purchase order balance.
• Process weekly release of payments to members under the NYSID 30 day Guaranteed Payment Program, this includes reviewing contract status utilizing NYSID’s contract database.
• Process weekly operating check run.
• Process payments to members via ACH transmittal.
• Transmit weekly check remittance to members.
• Verify and review member agency invoices, correct discrepancies by contacting member agency or customer, monitor disputed invoices when necessary.
• Voucher member agency invoices for service invoices and reconcile to the sales transaction posting journals.
• Apply credits to member invoices and review disputed invoices when necessary.
• Review Member aging’s on a monthly basis and follow up on discrepancies.
• Back up processing manual credit card transactions and apply payments to customer accounts.
• Assist in preparation of 1099’s

Qualifications: The requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skills and abilities required for the position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions

• High School Diploma or GED, Associates Degree preferred.
• Courses in bookkeeping, accounting and computers.
• Minimum 1- 3 years’ experience in a bookkeeping or accounting function preferred.
• Strong communication (verbal and written), interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Proven problem solving and mathematical ability.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast paced, high volume work environment.
• Proficiency with Excel various computer software applications including computerized accounting systems (NetSuite preferred), databases, spreadsheets and word processing (preferably Microsoft Office Suite.

Physical Requirements:

The requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skills and abilities required for the position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Nature of job requires considerable keyboard and mouse usage, walking around facilities and sitting for long periods of time. Must have visual acuity and hearing ability for communicating with others and gathering and accessing written and computerized information. Ability to access any locations where company business is conducted.

About NYSID:

NYSID is the Non-Profit organization designated by the NYS Education Department under the New York State Finance law to serve New York’s Preferred Source program, which works to provide gainful employment for New Yorkers with disabilities. Rehabilitative agencies throughout New York State which provide support services to individuals with disabilities, choose to become members of NYSID. On behalf of these members, and sometimes in conjunction with private sector partners, NYSID enters into contracts with state and local government agencies for goods and services which disabled New Yorkers create or perform. 

Come Join Our Team! 

We offer medical and dental benefits (80% paid by NYSID), a retirement program (5%+ of gross income), paid time off, tuition reimbursement, group life insurance and other benefits. We have been named a Top Work Place, most recently in 2023 by the Albany Times Union. 

Email cover letter, resume and salary requirements to administrator@nysid.org 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $17-20/hr

Schedule: 37.5 hour work week
Monday to Friday

Work Location: Albany, onsite. 

Benefits:

401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Employee assistance program
Flexible schedule
Flexible spending account
Health insurance
Health reimbursement account
Life insurance
Paid time off
Tuition reimbursement
Vision insurance