Cash Applications Analyst

Cash Applications AnalystCash Applications AnalystPay rate: $21.79 per hour Location: Clearwater, FL Schedule: Hybrid Standard Business Hours Duration: 12 monthsBring your finance and analytical skills to an exciting opportunity with an industry-leading beauty brand. As a Cash Applications Analyst, you'll help ensure customer payments are accurately applied, investigate payment issues, and work with teams across the business to keep accounts moving smoothly.What you'll doPost, reconcile, and balance high-volume customer payments across lockbox, wire, ACH, and digital payment platforms.Research and resolve remittance discrepancies, unapplied cash, chargebacks, insufficient-funds items, and ACH returns.Process authorized account adjustments, write-offs, customer credit refunds, and digital payment voids.Analyze payment data and trends to identify root causes and opportunities to improve processes.Partner with Accounts Receivable, Credit, Collections, and Customer Care to resolve payment disputes.Support customer transitions from manual payment processes to more efficient digital options.Share knowledge and help support training for newer team members.What you'll bringA bachelor's, master's, or equivalent university degree.At least 3 years of relevant cash applications or Accounts Receivable experience; 5-8 years of commercial finance experience is preferred.Credit processing experience and strong reconciliation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including PivotTables, VLOOKUPs, and basic data modeling.Microsoft Office proficiency; SAP AR/FSCM experience is strongly preferred.A great attitude, results-oriented approach, ability to influence, and strong communication and collaboration skills.Confidence working with large datasets and conducting detailed root-cause analysis.