Entry-level accounts receivable specialist jobs: what the job is, skills and open roles
Accounts receivable collects the money customers owe: sending invoices, applying payments and following up politely on late ones.
What a accounts receivable specialist does
In the finance and accounting family of jobs. Roles that keep the books, check the numbers and pay the bills.
A typical day
- 1. Create and send invoices
- 2. Apply payments
- 3. Follow up on late balances
- 4. Resolve billing disputes
- 5. Report aging balances
Do you need experience?
Entry-level accounts receivable specialist jobs exist, but none are open on the career sites we track at this moment, so we cannot say how many ask for experience. Each posting states its own requirements, so read the requirements section before you decide a job is out of reach.
Open entry-level accounts receivable specialist jobs
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Skills for accounts receivable specialist jobs
The skills this job uses, most important first. Most can be learned or shown before the first day.
Skills to build or show
- 1. Accounting software
- 2. Excel
- 3. Customer communication
- 4. Persistence
- 5. Accuracy
- 6. Account reconciliation
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The market for accounts receivable specialist work
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- Open entry-level accounts receivable specialist jobs
- 0
- Employment outlook, the closest government category
- Projected to shrink 6% from 2025 to 2035.
- AI use at work, the closest government category
- Among bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks, AI is already used for a large share of the tasks.
Source: NextChapter, checked against employer career sites, last 7 days.
See the detail →Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2025–2035.
Source: Anthropic Economic Index.
Outlook and AI-use figures are for the government category “Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks”, the closest match to this job.
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Questions about accounts receivable specialist jobs
- What does a accounts receivable specialist do?
- Accounts receivable collects the money customers owe: sending invoices, applying payments and following up politely on late ones. A typical day includes: create and send invoices; apply payments; follow up on late balances; resolve billing disputes; report aging balances.
- Can I get an entry-level accounts receivable specialist job with no experience?
- Entry-level accounts receivable specialist jobs exist, but none are open on the career sites we track at this moment, so we cannot say how many ask for experience. Each posting states its own requirements, so read the requirements section before you decide a job is out of reach.
- What skills do you need to be a accounts receivable specialist?
- The skills this job uses most are accounting software, excel, customer communication, persistence, accuracy, account reconciliation. Most can be learned before the first day through coursework, short courses, practice or a related job.
- Where can a accounts receivable specialist job lead?
- People in this job commonly move to staff accountant, accounts payable specialist, financial analyst, credit analyst. The link between jobs is the shared skills; the path is not guaranteed and depends on the employer.
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