Collections Specialist

Chattanooga, TN - USA

Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 23 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Opportunity

The Collections Specialist is responsible for managing and collecting outstanding customer balances to support company cash flow and minimize financial risk. This role owns a portfolio of customer accounts and drives timely payment through proactive collections efforts consistent follow-up and professional customer addition the position is responsible for onboarding new customers with internal systems performing credit analysis and supporting ongoing risk management activities. The Collections Specialist collaborates cross-functionally to resolve disputes remove barriers to payment and ensure compliance with company credit and collection standards while maintaining strong customer relationships.

What will I be doing every day

Own and manage a portfolio of customer accounts with at least $7M in accounts receivable exposure maintaining full accountability for collections performance and risk management.
Proactively prioritize and manage past-due balances based on risk level aging and customer payment behavior driving consistent follow-up to resolve delinquencies.
Conduct weekly customer outreach for past-due accounts beginning with phone calls and followed by professional documented email communication.
Negotiate and monitor payment plans ensuring adherence to agreed terms and timely resolution of outstanding balances.
Participate in customer calls and meetings to address payment delays resolve complex issues and reinforce clear payment expectations.
Identify high-risk or problematic accounts escalate concerns with thorough updates to the Credit & collections Manager and recommend appropriate actions such as credit holds.
Maintain professionalism firm and solution-oriented communication handling sensitive or challenging conversations with confidence while preserving strong customer relationships.
Complete customer onboarding credit analysis and account setup including evaluating creditworthiness managing credit insurance and establishing or adjusting credit limits.
Serve as the primary liaison for internal teams (Operations Billing Brokers Portal and Treasury) to resolve invoice disputes payment delays and missing remittance details.
Accurately document all collection activity disputes communications and payment commitments in Versa Pay send weekly statements of account and respond promptly to customer inquiries.

Required Skills Qualifications and Experience

3 years of experience in business-to-business collections.
At least 1 year of experience in the transportation or logistics industry.
Experience reviewing commercial business credit reports and supporting ongoing customer risk monitoring.
Experience participating in large account clean-up initiatives aging reduction efforts or structured portfolio management.

About Steam

Steam Logistics was founded in 2012 to tackle the most strategic challenge many companies face: how to align the supply chain so goods move efficiently quickly and economically. As a full-service provider we offer end-to-end services to help our customers move commodities around the world from their origin point to their destination. Weve rethought the brokerage paradigm and are innovation leaders in our space looking for the right people to join us as we scale. We are extraordinarily proud of the company weve built so far. Our people are Steams biggest competitive advantage and well continue investing in our people-first culture.

We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry where scammers attempt to access candidates personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All recruiting email communications will always come from the domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Steam via other sources should be ignored.

Steam Logistics is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity age national origin genetic information disability or protected veteran status. If you are unable to apply online due to a disability contact recruiting at

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The OpportunityThe Collections Specialist is responsible for managing and collecting outstanding customer balances to support company cash flow and minimize financial risk. This role owns a portfolio of customer accounts and drives timely payment through proactive collections efforts consistent foll...

The Opportunity

What will I be doing every day

Own and manage a portfolio of customer accounts with at least $7M in accounts receivable exposure maintaining full accountability for collections performance and risk management.
Proactively prioritize and manage past-due balances based on risk level aging and customer payment behavior driving consistent follow-up to resolve delinquencies.
Conduct weekly customer outreach for past-due accounts beginning with phone calls and followed by professional documented email communication.
Negotiate and monitor payment plans ensuring adherence to agreed terms and timely resolution of outstanding balances.
Participate in customer calls and meetings to address payment delays resolve complex issues and reinforce clear payment expectations.
Identify high-risk or problematic accounts escalate concerns with thorough updates to the Credit & collections Manager and recommend appropriate actions such as credit holds.
Maintain professionalism firm and solution-oriented communication handling sensitive or challenging conversations with confidence while preserving strong customer relationships.
Complete customer onboarding credit analysis and account setup including evaluating creditworthiness managing credit insurance and establishing or adjusting credit limits.
Serve as the primary liaison for internal teams (Operations Billing Brokers Portal and Treasury) to resolve invoice disputes payment delays and missing remittance details.
Accurately document all collection activity disputes communications and payment commitments in Versa Pay send weekly statements of account and respond promptly to customer inquiries.

Required Skills Qualifications and Experience

3 years of experience in business-to-business collections.
At least 1 year of experience in the transportation or logistics industry.
Experience reviewing commercial business credit reports and supporting ongoing customer risk monitoring.
Experience participating in large account clean-up initiatives aging reduction efforts or structured portfolio management.

About Steam

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