Accounts Receivable Specialist

Your role

What We Need

Corpay is currently on the lookout for a dynamic and highly organised person to join our team as an Accounts Receivable Specialist. This role sits within the Credit & Collections division of our Ellerslie office. Your focus will be allocating daily payments and closing invoices in various finance systems for a mixed range of high-volume customer accounts, ensuring all transactions are processed from sales orders to Invoice processing, credit control and receiving payments. You will be a key contributor to maintaining the financial health and integrity of the organisation

How We Work

As the Accounts Receivable Specialist, you will be expected to work in a hybrid office environment. Corpay will set you up for success by providing:

• Assigned workspace in Ellerslie office
• Company-issued equipment
• Formal, hands-on training

Role Responsibilities

Joining a high-performing credit team, you'll play a key role in ensuring financial stability for the organisation, helping us deliver exceptional service and keep things on track. You'll report directly to the Credit Team Leader and be responsible for receiving, accurately processing and collecting payments for goods and services. You'll work with customers to resolve payment delays, billing discrepancies or general account queries. This role also collaborates with internal departments and external vendors so excellent customer service and communication skills are essential. May require assisting with credit control administrative duties.

As the Accounts Receivable Specialist, your responsibilities will include:

• Invoice Processing: Review, verify, and process invoices from vendors, suppliers, and service providers. Ensure accuracy, correct coding, and adherence to company policies and procedures for our Australian accounts.
• Payment Management: Processing and recording payments, including electronic funds transfers, and other payment methods. Receipting and following up of outstanding receipts.
• Vendor Relations: Establish and maintain positive relationships with vendors and suppliers. Respond to vendor inquiries, resolve payment discrepancies, and address any issues or concerns.
• Banking: Recording every payment (such as deposits, withdrawals, transfers, and other transactions) each morning to ensure that all transactions from the previous day are accurately documented and that any new payments are recorded in real-time.
• Reconciliation: Reconcile vendor statements and customer accounts to ensure accurate recording of transactions and resolve any discrepancies or outstanding items. Assist in the completion of month-end reconciliations and month-end journals in a timely and accurate manner.
• Documentation: Maintain organised and up-to-date records of invoices, payments, and related documentation. Ensure compliance with audit standards.
• Reporting: Generate and analyse accounts receivable reports, including aging reports, and creditor related balance sheet reconciliations. Address overdue accounts and initiate recovery actions.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline and enhance accounts receivable processes, contribute to process improvements, and assist in implementing best practices.

Qualifications & Skills

This position requires a detail-oriented and organized individual who can competently work autonomously and manage your own workload. You are computer literate with touch-typing skills and hold a high level of attention to detail. The ideal candidate has experience collecting outstanding receivables, resolving customer inquiries, maintaining accurate account reconciliations, and ensuring data integrity. You pride yourself on your accuracy and have great time management skills. Having previous work experience in payments or banking in an office setting is a plus.

To be considered for this role, you must have the following skills and experience:

• At least 2 years of experience in AR, credit administration and support across multiple business entities (NZ and AU)
• Proficient computer skills, ideally intermediate or advanced Excel experience
• Strong analytical mindset with high data entry accuracy
• Confident communicator with a collaborative, team-focused approach.
• Organised, deadline-driven, and able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

Our Company & Purpose

Corpay is a global leader in business payments, laser focused on developing smarter ways for businesses to pay their expenses. Since 2000, Corpay has developed innovative digital solutions that help businesses better track, manage, and pay their expenses. Today, Corpay is an S&P 500 company with hundreds of thousands of customers using our products in over 200 countries. Companies of all sizes, industries and geographies rely on our product portfolio to manage spending more quickly, efficiently and securely than ever before.

We embrace a culture grounded in five key values: integrity, collaboration, innovation, execution and people. These values offer you the opportunity to 'thrive & grow' through career development, volunteer, community, and wellness initiatives. This allows you to create a balance between professional goals and personal achievement.

Corpay is also committed to building and nurturing a culture of diversity, inclusion, equality, and belonging by:

• Welcoming people of different backgrounds, cultures, ethnicities, genders, and sexual orientations;
• Empowering our people to share their experiences and ideas through open forums and individual conversations; and
• Valuing each person's unique perspectives and individual contributions.

Embracing diversity enables our people to "make the difference" as Corpay and its more than 8,000 employees continue to shape the future of global payments.

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

Corpay is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Corpay provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, gender (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, language, ancestry, genetic information, veteran and/or military status or any other group status protected by federal or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation for the application and/or interview process, please notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.

Corpay is a global technology organisation that is leading the future of commercial payments with a culture of innovation that drives us to constantly create new and better ways to pay. Our specialized payment solutions help businesses control, simplify, and secure payment for fuel, general payables, toll and lodging expenses. Millions of people in over 80 countries around the world use our solutions for their payments.

All offers of employment made by Corpay (and its subsidiary companies) are subject to the successful completion of satisfactory pre-employment vetting by an independent supplier (Experian). This is in accordance with Corpay's Resourcing Policy and include employment referencing, identity, adverse financial, criminal and sanctions list checks. We do this to meet our legal and regulatory requirements.

Corpay is dedicated to encouraging a supportive and inclusive culture among our employees. It is within our best interest to promote diversity and eliminate discrimination in the workplace. We seek to ensure that all employees and job applicants are given equal opportunities.