Strategic AR & Trade Specialist - Part-Time

ButcherBox; Watertown (MA); Hybrid; USD 41,000 - 48,000; Part time

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Benefits

Job summary

ButcherBox is seeking an Accounts Receivable & Trade Specialist to manage day-to-day AR activities across Retail, Wholesale, Corporate Gifting, Partnerships, and Dry Ice Manufacturing. This role handles onboarding, billing, cash application, ERP maintenance, reconciliations, and reporting. Reports to the Director of Accounting in the Finance department.

Hours: 20 hours per week, with at least 5 hours in the Watertown, MA office. Compensation: $30–$35/hour, plus benefits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of AR, billing, trade finance, or related accounting experience.
• Experience with retail customers, trade programs, deductions, and chargebacks strongly preferred.
• Experience with ACH, EDI, electronic remittance, and retailer portals preferred.
• Strong understanding of accounts receivable and general accounting principles.
• Strong Excel, analytical, reconciliation, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage billing and accounts receivable activities across the business, ensuring transactions are complete, accurate, and timely.
• Manage new customer onboarding, including customer applications, credit references, required documentation, and coordination of account setup.
• Maintain AR-related customer and item setup within the ERP system, including payment terms, billing information, and other required customer attributes.
• Process and apply customer payments, including checks, ACH, EDI payments and electronic remittance, and research unapplied cash and payment discrepancies.
• Monitor AR aging, outstanding balances, and collection activity and proactively identify potential risks or issues.
• Prepare and communicate weekly AR metrics to management, including aging, collections, deductions, unapplied cash, billing activity, and other key trends.
• Perform month-end AR and account reconciliations, including reconciliation of the AR subledger to the general ledger and resolution of outstanding differences.
• Prepare and analyze budget-to-actual results, research significant variances, and provide explanations to management.
• Partner closely with Corporate Sales, Retail, Dry Ice, and Procurement teams to resolve billing, customer, sales, and operational discrepancies.
• Identify opportunities to improve and automate customer onboarding, billing, cash application, deduction management, and reporting processes.

Skills

Accounts Receivable

Billing

Trade Finance

Excel

Tools

ERP System

Job description

ButcherBox is seeking an Accounts Receivable & Trade Specialist to manage day-to-day AR activities across Retail, Wholesale, Corporate Gifting, Partnerships, and Dry Ice Manufacturing. This role handles onboarding, billing, cash application, ERP maintenance, reconciliations, and reporting. Reports to the Director of Accounting in the Finance department.

Hours: 20 hours per week, with at least 5 hours in the Watertown, MA office. Compensation: $30–$35/hour, plus benefits.