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Hire an Accounts Receivable & Collections Specialist.

Invoices out, payments matched and debts chased.

Also called: AR & Collections Specialist, Credit Controller, Billing Specialist

From £4.50 an hour£4.50-20.50/hr

  • Professional services
  • Manufacturing & wholesale
  • Xero
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  • Works your hours
  • Nigeria hub, on London time or an hour ahead
  • Month to month
What your Accounts Receivable & Collections Specialist gets doneSample day
  • Raises invoices from timesheets, job completionsBilling
  • Matches receipts from bank feeds, Stripe, GoCardless or lockboxCash application
  • Runs the dunning cadence in Chaser, Upflow or native Xero/QBO remindersCollections
  • Processes new-customer credit applicationsCredit controlDoing
In your tools
  • Xero
  • QuickBooks Online
  • MYOB
  • Sage Intacct
  • Stripe
  • PayPal

Pick the level. See the price.

£8an hourFull time, 38 hours a week, all-in

Level 2 of 4, also called mid-level.Recommended
Even a local mid-level admin costs£16/hr
A tested Intermediate Accounts Receivable & Collections Specialist£8/hr
At least 50% lessBasis: a Seat's hourly price against the hourly wage of a comparable local hire at the same level. Employer National Insurance, pension and on-costs would add to the local cost.

Owns the full order-to-cash ledger.

  • Weekly aged AR and collections report
  • Payment-plan register
  • Month-end AR reconciliation and provision recommendation

2-4 years owning AR and collections for a ledger of roughly 100-800 active customers.

How the Intermediate level works

Per hour, all-in: recruiting, testing and management. Prices exclude VAT.

What you hand to your Accounts Receivable & Collections Specialist

Tasks

  • Billing

    • Raises invoices from timesheets, job completions
    • Meets customer invoicing requirements
    • Issues credit notes and rebills

  • Cash application

    • Matches receipts from bank feeds, Stripe, GoCardless or lockbox
    • Resolves short payments, overpayments, bulk payments

  • Collections

    • Runs the dunning cadence in Chaser, Upflow or native Xero/QBO reminders
    • Calls and emails overdue customers
    • Negotiates and records payment plans within your policy
    • Escalates to account holds
    • Keeps a dispute log and work with sales and operations

  • Credit control

    • Processes new-customer credit applications
    • Recommends credit limits and terms

  • Reporting and reconciliation

    • Produces a weekly aged receivables report, collections forecast
    • Reconciles the AR subledger to the GL each month
    • Sends monthly customer statements

Tested before you meet them

  1. Written collections sequenceAll levels25 min
  2. Live collections callAll levels15 min
  3. Cash application speed and accuracyIntern to Expert40 min
  4. Billing and dunning tool testIntern to Expert45 min
  5. AR portfolio prioritisation work sampleIntermediate and up60 min
  6. Key-account escalation role-playExpert and Specialist30 min

One score on every profileSample shown

89%

Three checks before your shortlist

  • Skills tested: A skills test for the role, marked by a senior
  • English and comms: written English tested, spoken English checked on a call
  • ID, work history and references: photo ID, past roles and two referees

From booked call to day one

  1. Step 1: Book a demo

    Tell us the role, your hours and your tools.

  2. Step 2: Meet your shortlist

    Their level and hourly price, tested before you meet.

  3. Step 3: Pick your person

    Month to month. We handle the contract, the equipment and the onboarding, and make sure it all runs.

  4. Step 4: They start work

    In your tools, within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview.

Questions answered

An Intern Accounts Receivable & Collections Specialist is £4.50 an hour, Intermediate £8, Expert £12.50 and Specialist £20.50, full time (38 hours a week). That is all-in: recruiting, testing and management, month to month. Prices exclude VAT.

Billing, cash application, collections and credit control, run to your priorities. You choose what they own first.

Six practical tests, marked by a senior, including written collections sequence, live collections call and cash application speed and accuracy. You see the score before you meet.

Tell us and we replace them free, with a new shortlist of tested people to meet. Seats are month to month with 30 days' notice.

More questions

Within 12 to 48 hours of a successful interview. First you meet your shortlist, interview the people you like and pick your person.

Yes. Your Accounts Receivable & Collections Specialist works your business hours in your time zone and joins your Teams or Slack like anyone else. The hub matched to United Kingdom clients is in Nigeria, on London time or an hour ahead.

Yes, where it helps. Your Accounts Receivable & Collections Specialist works in the AI tools you already use. They use AI for first drafts and routine work, check every output, and follow your AI policy. You can ask for no AI on any task.

An Intermediate Accounts Receivable & Collections Specialist owns the full order-to-cash ledger. An Expert Accounts Receivable & Collections Specialist manages high-value and difficult accounts and sets up Chaser or Upflow cadences. We usually recommend Intermediate.

It stays under your rules: your admin settings and AI policy apply. Our talent rules ban client data in personal or free AI accounts, and passwords, card numbers, health details and ID numbers never go into any AI tool.

You direct the work day to day. We handle recruiting, equipment and quality checks.

Yes. Every Accounts Receivable & Collections Specialist is tested live in the tools on your job description, such as Xero and QuickBooks Online, before you meet them.

In week one: gets access to the accounting system with invoicing and receipting rights; sets up a phone line and a shared AR email address in the client's name; and recorded handover on billing triggers, customer portal requirements. You agree the first priorities with them on day one.

Yes. It's also called AR & Collections Specialist, Credit Controller and Billing Specialist. Same tasks, tests and prices, whatever the name.

Their written English, with a scored test, and their spoken English, on a call with us. We also check their ID, work history and references.

Yes. You meet your shortlist on a short call and pick the person you want. Nobody joins without your yes.

In our talent hubs in the Philippines, Vietnam, Kenya, Nigeria, Brazil and Colombia, and we hire from 60+ countries. Wherever they are, they work your hours.

Pay only for the hours they work. All your Seats are on one bill, and Studio plans are billed monthly.

It can, at most once a year. Your person's hourly rate may rise by up to 5% a year, from the first anniversary of the Seat's start, with 60 days' notice and the right to end the Seat before it applies.

Only when you and your person both agree to it in advance. Otherwise they work the hours you set, and you pay for the hours they log.

You aren't charged for hours your person doesn't work, apart from paid leave. After their third month, your person earns 8 hours of paid leave a month. Paid leave hours are charged at their usual rate.

Your person logs their hours each day in the Get Hands client app, where you can see them. Your next invoice is adjusted to those hours.

Yes, with no minimum hours. From 20 to 37 hours a week, the hourly rate is 10% higher than full-time. Under 20 hours, it's 20% higher.

Yes. Tell us the roles on a call and we shortlist tested people for each.

Yes. You give them access in your own systems, and you can change or remove it at any time.

They get their own login in each of your systems, never a shared one. Any password that has to be shared goes through your own password manager, never email, chat, code or prompts.

A tested shortlist within 72 hours of your call, or your first week is free. That's part of The Right Hands Guarantee.

Yes. Call us on +61 3 4421 6491, or choose Talk now on the booking form for a Microsoft Teams link straight away, any time.

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