Senior Accountant: AR, AP & Billing Lead

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Norwood (MA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision options

Life and disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

Eurofins Scientific is a global life sciences company seeking a Senior Accountant to oversee AP, AR, and billing operations. The role ensures accurate processing, timely payments, and customer and vendor setup activities across Eurofins entities.

The Senior Accountant will supervise two Staff Accountants supporting AR, drive process improvements, and maintain accurate customer balances while resolving payment issues to improve efficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 3–5 years of progressive accounting experience, incl. AP, AR, billing, and general accounting.
• Experience with Coupa or similar procurement/AP systems preferred.
• Strong Excel skills and ability to analyze accounting data and reconcile.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational and multitasking abilities.
• Able to work with customers, internal departments, and Eurofins entities.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Manage and review AP invoices in Coupa, ensuring invoices are processed accurately and timely.
• Create purchase requisitions and obtain PO numbers prior to invoice processing.
• Review invoices for proper documentation, approvals, GL coding, department/cost center coding, and PO information.
• Coordinate with NSC Accounts Payable team to ensure invoices are submitted, approved, and processed within required payment timelines.
• Research and resolve invoice discrepancies, coding issues, PO mismatches, and other AP-related exceptions.
• Coordinate the creation and maintenance of new vendors in Coupa, ensuring required vendor information and documentation are complete.
• Review customer billing requirements and prepare customer invoices as needed.
• Perform billing calculations and ensure invoices contain accurate pricing, customer information, accounting codes, and other required billing details.
• Review supporting documentation to ensure invoices are complete and accurate before submission to customers.
• Create and maintain new customer accounts and coordinate required customer onboarding documentation.
• Provide customers with company W-9 forms and approved banking/remittance information when required for customer vendor setup and payment processing.
• Work closely with the AR Billing Specialist to resolve billing issues and ensure invoices are issued accurately and timely.
• Apply daily customer payments to open accounts receivable invoices and ensure payments are posted accurately.
• Review AR aging and unapplied cash reports regularly and investigate outstanding or unidentified balances.
• Research unapplied and misapplied payments and coordinate corrections to ensure customer accounts are properly stated.
• Work proactively to reduce aged receivable balances and unapplied cash.
• Assist the AR Collection Specialist with customer invoice questions, collection activities, payment research, and account reconciliation.
• Investigate payments that may have been sent to another Eurofins laboratory or bank account and coordinate intercompany transfers or other corrective actions to ensure funds are applied to the appropriate customer account.
• Assist in resolving customer disputes and discrepancies that may delay collection of outstanding balances.

Skills

Accounts Payable

Accounts Receivable

Billing

General accounting

Microsoft Excel

Coupa

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

Tools

Coupa

Job description

Eurofins Scientific is a global life sciences company seeking a Senior Accountant to oversee AP, AR, and billing operations. The role ensures accurate processing, timely payments, and customer and vendor setup activities across Eurofins entities.

The Senior Accountant will supervise two Staff Accountants supporting AR, drive process improvements, and maintain accurate customer balances while resolving payment issues to improve efficiency.