Accounts Receivable Specialist, Collections

Are you looking for a stable employer that values its employees? Do you believe in Excellent Customer Service? Can you cultivate trusted and long-term business relationships with customers? 

Roberts Oxygen, a leading distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases and related equipment has the position for you. We are actively seeking a dedicated and committed Accounts Receivable Specialist, Collections whose responsibilities and duties will focus on Collections for our Rockville, MD location.

What’s in it for you?

At Roberts Oxygen, we offer TOP Industry hourly wages; our new employees are reviewed every 90 days during their first year for wage increase and bonus opportunities are quarterly. We offer excellent benefits to include low monthly medical premiums, no medical co-pays, and low out of pocket deductibles. Employees participate in the Company Profit Sharing program and have a 401K program available to them. Roberts Oxygen has a growth and customer service-oriented work environment with opportunities for training and development and career advancement.

Are you a Match?

The ideal Accounts Receivable Specialist, Collections will have proven skills in providing excellent and effective credit and collection services and maintaining trusted relationships with both external and internal customers. Primary duties include making outbound collection calls, determining how invoices are to be delivered; ensuring Purchase Orders are correctly entered and reflected on customer invoices to facilitate prompt payment; evaluating past-due accounts; adjustments and customer refunds; reconciling customer payments; ensuring tax exempt documentation has been collected; and any other billing and collection task necessary to facilitate customer payment.

Responsibilities and requirements include but are not limited to:

• 3 years of Collection experience and 3 years of clerical and data entry experience in an accounts receivable or accounts payable transactional capacity at a mid-sized company.
• Solid collections, analytical, and negotiation skills on large and small customers with complex billing requirements and accounts with significant collection risk.
• Ability to handle high volumes, difficult situations, and make effective decisions in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience monitoring collections for customers billed via EDI or billing portals.
• Understanding of basic accounting and impact of cash application entries on customer balances and bank reconciliation.
• Excellent Excel, Outlook, PDF editing, computer data entry, and 10-key proficiency, as well as the ability to quickly gain necessary skills and learn new software programs.
• Detail-oriented with excellent communication, negotiation, problem solving, and follow-up skills. 
• Self-starter and individual contributor.
• Demonstrated mathematical and accounting aptitude and function.
• High school education or equivalent. Associate or Bachelor degree preferred.
• Regular and predictable attendance is an essential job duty of all positions at Roberts Oxygen.
• Experience with FACTS or Billtrust Cash Application a plus.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) a plus.
• If selected, ability to pass pre-employment screenings.

Be a part of Roberts Oxygen.

Roberts Oxygen is recognized as an exceptional service oriented independent distributor from Pennsylvania to Florida with 57 locations, serving 9 states. Roberts Oxygen is a premier distributor of gases and related equipment. We are proud to provide helpful and effective response to our customers’ needs and concerns while maintaining a strong commitment to providing products and services of the highest quality; striving to build lasting and rewarding relationships with our customers.

Roberts Oxygen is an equal opportunity employer.