Accounting and Benefits Coordinator

OUR PURPOSE

SunCommon is a Benefit Corporation based out of Waterbury that is fueled by the belief that everyone has the right to a healthy environment and safer world.  So we’re tearing down the barriers that have made renewable energy inaccessible with the goal of repowering our communities one home, school, and business at a time.  To this end, we make going solar easy and affordable so that all Vermonters together can take part in creating a healthier environment.  We launched in 2012 and have already changed the solar landscape in Vermont. So we’re continuing to expand, to meet the demand we’re creating.

ABOUT THE BUSINESS

In just a few years, SunCommon has grown into Vermont’s largest residential solar business having served over 3000 Vermonters.  We begin with a community organizing approach to marketing, via high-touch, personal interactions with home and business owners who want solar but couldn’t figure it out or didn’t think they could afford it.  We’ve done all the legwork to put together a total package that’s easy for the customer.   We picked the best equipment manufacturer, lined up the finest installers and arranged attractive financing that saves our customers real money.

ABOUT THIS POSITION

This position works with the Accounting and Human Resources teams to ensure timely and high quality communications with our highly valued customers and amazing staff.

In Accounts Receivable, they are responsible for the receipt and accounting of funds being paid to the organization. This role also serves as an auditor, ensuring that invoices are accurate and that proper accounting procedures are followed to account for the receipt of payment for goods and services completed by the organization.

In the Benefits Administration function, this position assists employees with benefits enrollment and questions, manages all insurance billing, maintains employee database and files, and assists with payroll processing.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Accounts Receivable:

• Producing Invoices
• Recording sales receipts and deposit incoming cash and checks
• Providing customer service regarding collection issues, process and review account adjustments, resolve client discrepancies and short payments,
• Responsible for monitoring and maintain assigned accounts
• Customers calls and correspondence regarding account adjustments, small balance write off, customer reconciliations and process credit memos
• Accountable for reducing delinquencies for assigned accounts
• Must communicate and follow up effectively with customer support team regarding customer accounts in a timely basis
• Writing and recording checks to vendors and lenders
• Researches and solves payment discrepancies
• Recording wire, ACH and credit card payments and credits
• Reconciling bank accounts
• Properly transferring money between accounts internally
• Filing paper records to validate electronic data

Benefits Administration:

• Coordinate daily benefits processing. Handle enrollments, COBRA, terminations, changes, beneficiaries, disability, accident and workers compensation claims, leaves of absence, rollovers, distributions, loans and hardships.Oversee maintenance of employee benefits files, maintain group benefits database and update employee payroll records
• Introduce to new employees our benefits according to On-Boarding checklist; receive, record and track new hire paperwork and enrollment
• Serve as primary contact for plan vendors and third-party administrators. Coordinate transfer of data to external contacts for services, premiums and plan administration.
• Provide customer service support to employees.
• Collaborate with Director of Talent to develop communication tools to enhance understanding of the company’s comprehensive benefits package.
• Collaborate to design and distribute materials for benefits orientations, open enrollment and summary plan descriptions.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• Two years experience in Accounting or benefits administration, and Associate degree in accounting or equivalent experience of education and experience
• Ability to maintain confidentiality essential
• Effective communication, organization and time management skills
• Possess strong problem-solving skills related to people and process improvements
• Excellent customer service skills required
• Demonstrated commitment to social change

PAY & BENEFITS

SunCommon offers employees a competitive salary and strong package of benefits, including:

• For the employee and her/his family, fully paid medical premiums as well as a significant contribution toward medical deductible expenses.
• For the employee and a spouse or dependent, fully paid dental premiums,
• 3 weeks paid personal leave (combined vacation and sick) for year 1; 4 weeks for year 2,
• 10 paid holidays annually,
• 401k company match 1:1 up to 3% of salary that the employee sets aside then 1:2 
match for 4 or 5%.

HOW WE WORK 


We feel huge responsibility to succeed, to honor our triple bottom line commitments to people (our employees and their families, our Customers and residents of the communities where we do business), planet (Vermont’s beloved environment and the broader globe, given climate change) and profit (providing capital to grow, revenue to share among our employees, and a reasonable return to our investors). This is important work, and we have fun doing it. Innovation is fun stuff.

We do it by celebrating creativity, cross-functional collaboration, high energy, hard work, good play, deep networking and with the acknowledgement that we’ll each make mistakes and learn from them. We know success. We know fun. Come do both with us.

In addition to meaningful work, we offer competitive salary and generous benefits. Our values are reflected in our workplace — our new net-positive office building with easy access to vibrant downtown Waterbury.

The Vermont Department of Economic Development named SunCommon as one of the state’s “Best Places to Work,” based in part on the delight registered by our employees in a confidential survey of our employees.

APPLYING

In PDF format, provide us a cover letter (including one of your greatest accomplishments) along with your resume to hr@suncommon.com .

SunCommon of course is an equal opportunity employer and we don’t tolerate harassment or other discrimination based upon sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, caregiver status, pregnancy, military or veteran status, race, color, religion, national origin, place of birth, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other legally protected status.