Accounting Specialist
Adams Outdoor
- Charleston, SC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Responsible for preparing and maintaining accounts reconciliation and reports for various A/P related general ledger accounts.
- Prepares various accounts receivable reports and analyses, giving information relating to customers’ accounts to authorized personnel.
- Maintains accounts payable files.
- Assists the Regional Business Manager and General Manager in the review of expense items on the market P&L.
- Ensures that the A/P voucher and report filing system is accurate and orderly.
- Prepares weekly and monthly statistical reports as required by supervisor.
- Verifies collection agency statements; prepares report of written-off accounts; maintain communications with collection agencies.
- Maintains and processes purchase order receipts/invoices.
- Verifies accounts are in compliance with company credit and collection policies.
- Maintains records, logs, and files according to established system.
- Processes credit applications including checking credit references.
- Handles routine inquiries.
- May make outgoing calls to delinquent customers and make payment arrangements.
- May process checks.
- May perform other functions as assigned by the designated manager.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business or related discipline is preferred or equivalent experience.
- A high school diploma or equivalent.
- A general knowledge of simple clerical routines and use of office equipment.
- Ability to interact with the public, either on the telephone or in personal contact.
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills.
- Must be able to sit in one location for extended periods of time.
- AOA, founded in 1983 by Steve Adams, is the 4th largest, and largest privately-held, Outdoor Advertising operator in the U.S.. AOA operates in the following 12 markets: Ann Arbor/Kalamazoo/Lansing (MI), Beaufort/Charleston/Florence (SC), Charlotte (NC), Eastern Pennsylvania (PA), Madison (WI), Norfolk (VA), Peoria and Champaign (IL).
- Searchlight Capital Partners, a leading global private investment firm, in partnership with British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, one of the largest asset managers in Canada, invested in AOA in 2021.