Accounting Generalist

Job description

Accounting Generalist

Location: Millersburg, OH
Schedule: Monday-Friday

Mast Trucking is hiring an Accounting Generalist to help ensure the financial health and operational efficiency of Mast Logistics and the broader Mast family of companies. This role will own critical processes including customer onboarding, invoicing, credit management, collections, and carrier payments while serving as an important member of a collaborative accounting team. Success in this role requires strong attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to make thoughtful business decisions.

Your primary responsibilities will include accounts receivable, customer credit management, collections, and carrier payables. You'll be responsible for ensuring invoices are accurate and timely, evaluating customer credit risk, supporting healthy cash flow, and maintaining efficient accounting processes. Over time, you'll gain exposure to additional accounting functions, provide backup support across the department, and develop a broader understanding of the business and its financial operations.

If you're someone who notices things others miss, enjoys solving problems, asks great questions, and takes pride in getting things right the first time, this could be a great fit.

What You'll Do

• Manage customer onboarding, account setup, credit checks, credit limits, and ongoing credit risk evaluation

• Process and manage customer invoicing, ensuring load paperwork and supporting documentation are complete, accurate, and submitted on time

• Monitor past-due accounts, assist with collections efforts, and support healthy cash flow

• Process carrier payments and resolve billing, paperwork, and payment discrepancies

• Investigate issues, identify root causes, and work closely with the Logistics team to resolve problems impacting invoicing, collections, or carrier payments

• Make informed business decisions within established guidelines and appropriately escalate higher-risk situations

• Identify opportunities to improve accuracy, efficiency, and accounting processes

• Provide backup support and assistance across other accounting functions as needed

Who You Are

✔ Highly detail-oriented and accurate

✔ Able to process a high volume of work quickly and accurately

✔ Extremely comfortable with technology, computer systems, and learning new software

✔ Able to navigate systems efficiently and leverage technology to work smarter

✔ Comfortable digging into problems and investigating issues until you find the answer

✔ Able to see how small details impact larger business outcomes

✔ Comfortable making decisions and exercising good judgment

✔ Not afraid to ask questions when something doesn't seem right or when you don't fully understand something

✔ Organized and able to manage multiple priorities

✔ A strong teammate who works well with both operations and accounting

✔ Eager to learn, grow, and take on additional responsibilities over time

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field strongly preferred. Recent graduates with strong academic performance, demonstrated work ethic, and exceptional attention to detail are encouraged to apply.

• Prior accounting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, finance, banking, logistics, or business experience preferred

• Strong computer and systems aptitude

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and business software systems

• Ability to maintain confidentiality and professionalism

What Success Looks Like

A successful Accounting Generalist will:

• Ensure customer onboarding is accurate, efficient, and completed in a timely manner

• Maintain accurate and timely invoicing across all assigned accounts

• Effectively manage customer credit risk while supporting business growth

• Help reduce outstanding loads awaiting invoicing

• Support healthy Days to Pay (DTP) performance across customers

• Build trust with the Logistics and Accounting teams through consistency, ownership, and sound decision-making

• Continuously improve processes that increase efficiency and accuracy

At Mast, we value people who are dependable, thoughtful, and willing to dig deeper to find the right answer. If you're looking for an opportunity to grow your accounting career, and make a meaningful impact on the organization we'd love to talk with you.

Job requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field strongly preferred. Recent graduates with strong academic performance, demonstrated work ethic, and exceptional attention to detail are encouraged to apply.

• Prior accounting, accounts receivable, accounts payable, finance, banking, logistics, or business experience preferred

• Strong computer and systems aptitude

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and business software systems

• Ability to maintain confidentiality and professionalism

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