Description
Responsible for placing safety as #1 priority in day to day work routine for self and others. Manages the daily and monthly activities of the Customer Care and Billing (CC&B), Payment Processing, Customer Accounting, Revenue Accounting, Meter Reading and Configuration and Support Departments, as well as the JDE Accounts Receivable Module for the MDU Utilities Group (Montana-Dakota, Great Plains, Cascade and Intermountain). Oversees processes to generate customer utility bills, record payments, and system balancing. Process Owner for CC&B, responsible to sign off on any changes to the systems. Accounting project lead in the design and testing of all upgrades, enhancements, or changes to CC&B and various meter reading systems. Implements and directs accounting policies and procedures in accordance with GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley to ensure the accurate recording and integrity of customer billing and cash receipts.
| MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS |
- Bachelor's Degree in accounting, business administration, or computer science; and
- Seven years of increasingly responsible experience in accounting, business administration or computer science of which two years are in a supervisory or leadership capacity.
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| OTHER REQUIREMENTS |
- Must take all measures necessary to protect networks, devices, programs and data from cyber-attack, damage or unauthorized access.
- Required to maintain a valid driver's license.
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| PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS |
- Certified Public Accountant
- Experience in an accounting function, billing and accounts receivable responsibilities experience preferred
- Extensive experience with the JDE financial software.
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| JOB RESPONSIBILTIES |
- Manages Revenue Accounting, Customer Accounting, Meter Reading, JDE A/R Billing, and Payment Processing personnel performing the essential functions of preparing, validating, controlling, verifying, and processing billing, cash receipts, revenues and other financial transactions. Ensures meter reads, payments, and other transactions for customer billing are processed daily. Trains employees on all updates and changes to ensure consistence standards and quality are met. Manages SOX compliance for the billing and cash receipts processes.
- Oversees the daily and monthly balancing of accounts receivables and revenue generated from CC&B and JDE. Monitors transaction results to ensure proper recording in the general ledger. Ensures the Company is current with the best practices relating to the customer accounting function.
- Manages the processing of payments received in Payment Processing, ACH payments and through 3rd party payment vendors, balancing monthly bank statements to CC&B and monitoring various system generated reports and queries.
- Serves as first point of contact to resolve system issues associated with CC&B, Meter Reading, and JDE A/R billing.
- Performs other tasks and special projects as assigned.
Offers typically made between - ($127,970 - $159,960)
Application Deadline: July 10, 2024
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Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
MDU Resources Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.
