Accounting Agent

Company DescriptionAs a Fortune 500 company, Expeditors employs more than 16,000 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 329 locations across six continents. Expeditors satisfies the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customize solutions and seamless, integrated information systems. Our services include the consolidation and forwarding or air or ocean freight. Customs brokerage, vendor consolidation, cargo insurance, time-define transportation. Order and risk management, warehousing. distribution and customized logistics solutions. Expeditors is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.**Job Description**:**Scope of position**The Accounting Agent is responsible to manage Accounts Receivables processes, including receiving, deposit and recording of ACH/Wires ensuring Customers’ payments are posted timely.**Metrics****Finance**- EFTs received and recorded - within one business day of receipt.- EFTs with GCI identified but no remittance detail - posted the 4th day.- Update SharePoint table with deposit number - Daily.**Training & Personnel Development**- Comply with the 52 hour training per year (4.33 per month).- Complete all mandatory training timely.**Administration and Personnel Management**- Exemplify and Teach Our Culture, Mission and Goals.- Follow the 10 Critical Success Factor.- Own your self-development. Prepare, follow-up and execute on your personal development goals.- Build healthy cross-functional relationship. Ensure a healthy work environment, promote team spirit and cohesiveness in the department as well as working together with other teams.- Participate on initiatives and projects of the Accounting team and communicate to Operations.**Main Responsibilities & Duties**:- Daily check EFT Table in SharePoint for unposted payments.- Daily post deposits on accounting system for EFT payments when valid remittance detail is available. Proper backup to be uploaded on deposit journal.- Update deposit pending information in SharePoint once Deposit number is assigned by system.- Assign EFT payments received to district if no remittance detail is available.- Post unposted EFTs to GCI if remittance detail is not received by 4th day of receipt- Identify and collaborate with districts on deposit errors resolutions.- Identifying and communicate tendencies that lead to root causes and action plans to avoid future errors.- Escalate problems or concerns to districts or CHQ US accounting, as necessary.**Compliance**- Understand and comply with company internal controls, specifically the Fınancıal Process Control Documentation.- Promote compliance and diligently following all company policies and regulations and performing the task at hand with outstanding integrity.- Maintain highest compliance levels for all applicable Accounting requirements.**Qualifications**:**To be the most effective in this position we are looking for the following skills and experience**:- English Fluency- Admin /Finance background preferred- Ability to learn accounting processes and procedures.- Customer Satisfaction oriented.- Interpersonal and communication skills, ability to communicate written and oral communication and presentations.- Basic time management skills and attention to detail.- Problem solving.- Ability to complete work within standard procedures, guidelines and office policies.- Self-driven personality.- Teamwork oriented- Commitment to always exemplify Expeditors’ culture.Additional Information- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines