What Accounting Operations Professionals Are Asked to Do: Evidence from 122 Current Vacancies

What Accounting Operations Professionals Are Asked to Do: Evidence from 122 Current Vacancies

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MTF Institute Research Report
Byline: MTF Institute Research Team
Evidence date: 29 August 2026
Draft version: v1

Abstract

This report examines the work represented in 122 current public vacancies for accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, collections, bookkeeping, accounting support and transaction-focused accountant roles. The vacancies were retrieved on 29 August 2026 from individual employer pages hosted on five applicant-tracking-system families. The purposive corpus contains 20 Ashby, five Greenhouse, 27 Lever, 34 SmartRecruiters and 36 Workday records. It covers 115 exact stored employer labels and five role families: 36 accountants with transactional accounting scope, 27 accounts-payable roles, 18 accounting-operations or bookkeeping roles, 35 accounts-receivable, billing or collections roles, and six explicitly combined AP/AR roles.

Admission required evidence of at least two of three workflow areas: accounts payable; accounts receivable or cash operations; and reconciliation or close support. Forty-two vacancies contained evidence for all three areas. Twenty-eight combined AP with reconciliation or close support, 27 combined AR or cash work with reconciliation or close support, and 25 combined AP with AR or cash work. Across the accepted corpus, reconciliation or close support was coded in 97 records, AP operations in 95 and AR or cash operations in 94. More specific codes include month-end close in 13, customer billing and invoicing in 12, cash application and receipts in 11, vendor or customer reconciliation in 11, collections and credit control in 11, expense or card reconciliation in nine, bank or cash reconciliation in nine, and aging review in nine.

These are exact counts of records in a screened corpus. The associated percentages are corpus coverage proportions: they describe how much retained indexed text contained evidence for a code. They are not estimates of labour-market prevalence, task time, importance or employer demand. The broad AP, AR and reconciliation counts are also shaped by the admission rule and cannot independently prove that those activities occur at the same rates outside this corpus. A one-record-per-case-normalised-employer sensitivity view retains 114 vacancies and yields similar broad-code coverage, but it does not convert the study into a representative sample.

The evidence supports an integrated view of accounting operations. Supplier and customer transactions create open items; payments and receipts change those items; reconciliations connect source records, subledgers, bank activity and general-ledger control balances; exceptions require traceable investigation; and close support turns the work into reviewable period evidence. Curriculum should therefore connect procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, reconciliation, exception management, spreadsheet and system controls, communication and month-end handoff. It should preserve clear authority limits: training can develop preparation, checking and escalation capabilities without authorising payments, bank-detail changes, accounting-policy choices, statutory reporting, consumer debt recovery, audit conclusions or work on real confidential records.

Research purpose and reading rules

The purpose is to convert current vacancy evidence into a defensible description of accounting-operations work and into curriculum implications for the proposed Professional Certificate in Accounting Operations: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Reconciliation. The report asks what accepted vacancy records show, how the represented tasks connect, and what the evidence can responsibly support.

Three reading rules are essential.

First, a coded count is a count of accepted records whose retained title or indexed public description met a documented rule. It is not a count of every time a term appeared. One record can receive several codes, and one code is counted no more than once per record.

Second, a missing code means that the retained evidence did not establish the activity. It does not prove that the employer excludes the activity from the job. Search descriptions vary in length and specificity, so narrow duties are especially vulnerable to under-recording.

Third, this is a purposive curriculum-evidence study rather than probability sampling. Percentages make the composition of these 122 records easier to inspect. They must not be reported as global or national prevalence estimates.

Research questions

1. Which accounting-operations role families and applicant-tracking-system source families are represented in the accepted corpus?
2. How often are AP, AR or cash work, and reconciliation or close support evidenced in the retained corpus records?
3. Which more specific operational skills are evidenced, and in how many accepted records?
4. How do the represented responsibilities connect as an end-to-end AP, AR and reconciliation workflow?
5. How sensitive are the findings to repeated employer labels and uneven source-platform contribution?
6. What curriculum decisions are supported, and which professional, legal, rights and outcome claims remain outside the evidence?

Method

Study design

The study is a cross-sectional content analysis of current, public, English-language employer vacancy metadata retrieved on one date. The unit of analysis is one accepted, deduplicated vacancy URL. Source records retain the employer or publisher label, exact indexed title, location only when the indexed result supplied it, retrieval date, canonical URL, current-status signal, a minimal paraphrased supporting fact, workflow areas, coded skills, role family, deduplication key, rights classification and limitation.

The vacancy evidence was interpreted alongside accepted occupational, public-sector control, system-documentation, market-intent and portfolio-rights evidence. Those additional sources help define the occupational family, process meaning and safe scope. They do not add records to the 122-vacancy counts.

Search and sampling strategy

Twenty-two reproducible public-search captures targeted individual employer vacancy pages hosted on Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters and Workday. Queries combined role language such as accounts payable specialist, accounts receivable specialist, AP/AR, accounting specialist, staff accountant and bookkeeper with reconciliation, invoices, cash or related transaction-work terms.

The searches produced 255 raw result rows and 220 unique canonical URLs before eligibility screening. The final corpus contains 122 accepted unique vacancies and 98 excluded unique results. The search design was deliberately purposive: it sought enough suitable evidence across AP, AR and combined transaction-accounting roles to inform curriculum architecture. It was not designed to reproduce the vacancy universe of a country, occupation or platform.

Inclusion criteria

A record was eligible only when all of the following were evidenced in the retained public result:

• the URL represented an individual HTTPS vacancy on a first-party employer ATS page;
• the title belonged to accounting operations, bookkeeping, AP, AR, billing, collections or a transaction-focused accountant family;
• the title was operational rather than manager, director, controller, head, vice-president or lead level;
• the retained title or description evidenced at least two of AP, AR or cash operations, and reconciliation or close support;
• no explicit closed or expired signal appeared at retrieval; and
• the role was not a pure payroll, FP&A, financial-planning or medical revenue-cycle position.

Accounting supervisor titles were retained only where the sampled evidence was operational and the explicit seniority exclusions did not apply. This is a corpus rule, not a general statement that every supervisor role is equivalent to an individual-contributor role.

Exclusion criteria and flow

Of 220 unique canonical URLs discovered, 98 were excluded and 122 accepted. Exclusion reasons were assigned once under the primary deterministic rule.

Primary exclusion reason	Unique results
Fewer than two required workflow areas evidenced	63
Title outside the accounting-operations role family	18
Manager, director, controller, head or lead title	9
Pure payroll, FP&A or medical revenue-cycle role	4
Not an individual first-party employer ATS vacancy	4
Total excluded	98

The requirement for two workflow areas gives the corpus analytical coherence. It also creates selection effects. In particular, the study cannot use the high coverage of AP, AR or reconciliation to claim that the same coverage exists among all accounting vacancies.

Current-status rule

“Current” means that an individual employer ATS vacancy was returned in public search on 29 August 2026 and that no closed or expired signal appeared in the indexed result. This is a point-in-time status rule. It does not guarantee that a page remained open after retrieval, that applications were still accepted in every location, or that indexed text matched every later page revision.

The study did not create accounts, sign in, submit applications, interact with forms or bypass access controls. A later unavailable page does not invalidate the historical observation, but it reduces what another researcher may be able to read back from the live web.

Canonicalisation and deduplication

URLs were canonicalised by removing fragments, tracking parameters and trailing /apply, while retaining identity-bearing query parameters. Exact canonical URLs were collapsed, keeping the richest indexed description. A second identity check combined employer or publisher label, normalised exact title and ATS vacancy identity. The accepted ledger has 122 unique canonical URLs and 122 unique deduplication keys.

Employer concentration is reported in two ways because label case matters. The ledger contains 115 case-sensitive stored employer labels. One exact label contributes three records, five exact labels contribute two, and all other exact labels contribute one. Case-normalising the employer label merges Jobgether and jobgether, producing 114 normalised employer groups and two groups with three records. The sensitivity analysis uses this more conservative case-normalised grouping.

Coding framework

Coding used case-insensitive deterministic multi-label patterns over the exact indexed title and public-search description retained in the evidence process. Three broad workflow codes identify AP operations, AR or cash operations, and reconciliation or close support. Seventeen narrower codes identify explicit evidence for month-end close, billing, cash application, vendor or customer reconciliation, collections, expense or card reconciliation, bank or cash reconciliation, aging review, ERP or spreadsheet work, journals or accruals, invoice processing or coding, payment-run preparation, exception resolution, controls or audit support, vendor-master or vendor-query work, balance-sheet or subledger reconciliation, and purchase-order or matching controls.

The broad codes and narrow codes answer different questions. A record may support a broad workflow area through generic wording while lacking enough indexed detail for a narrow code. Consequently, narrow counts should be read as explicit evidence floors within this corpus rather than exhaustive task inventories.

Rights and expression controls

The retained vacancy ledger contains factual metadata, links and minimal paraphrased supporting facts rather than copied vacancy bodies. The report does not reproduce employer templates, logos, screenshots, branded process diagrams or proprietary course material. Occupational and system sources are cited through short original paraphrase. O*NET use is attributed under its applicable CC BY 4.0 terms; no endorsement is implied. BLS facts are cited without using emblems or third-party imagery. The older ILO classification is referenced briefly rather than reproduced or adapted.

The analysis does not depend on reproducing IFRS standards, COSO framework content, PCI materials, ERP-vendor training or professional-body examinations. It uses original, vendor-neutral process language and sends organisation-specific policy, law, tax, accounting treatment, system configuration and authority decisions back to the responsible workplace owner.

Quality controls

The accepted specialist evidence passed checks for the minimum corpus size, unique URLs, unique deduplication keys, non-empty required fields, exact retrieval date, individual first-party ATS URLs, two or more workflow areas, excluded seniority and excluded pure payroll, FP&A and medical revenue-cycle scope. Input artifact hashes were rechecked before drafting. Numerical tables in this report were regenerated from the accepted TSV or compared with the accepted coding summary. The linked vacancy appendix is generated directly from the 122 accepted rows.

Sample profile

ATS source families

Source family	Records	Corpus coverage
Workday employer ATS	36	29.5%
SmartRecruiters employer ATS	34	27.9%
Lever employer ATS	27	22.1%
Ashby employer ATS	20	16.4%
Greenhouse employer ATS	5	4.1%
Total	122	100.0%

This distribution describes retrieval, not the market share of ATS providers or the occupational distribution of jobs. Workday and SmartRecruiters together account for 70 records, so platform-specific indexing practices can influence which details were available for narrow coding.

Role families

Role family	Records	Corpus coverage
Accountant with transactional accounting scope	36	29.5%
Accounts receivable, billing or collections	35	28.7%
Accounts payable	27	22.1%
Accounting operations or bookkeeping	18	14.8%
Explicit combined AP/AR	6	4.9%
Total	122	100.0%

The role mix is intentionally broader than a search for one title. Accepted occupational evidence shows that the same transaction-and-reconciliation work appears under Accounting Clerk, Accounting Assistant, Accounts Assistant, Accounting Specialist, AP Clerk or Specialist, AR Clerk or Specialist, Bookkeeper, Finance Assistant and some junior or staff accountant titles. No single title operates as a reliable global label for the full bundle.

For that reason, Accounting Operations is the most defensible umbrella in the course title, while Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Reconciliation states the practical work directly. The target-role label Accounts Payable and Receivable Specialist (AP/AR Specialist) is useful in learner and career copy, but it should not be presented as a universal occupational designation.

Employer concentration

The 122 records contain 115 exact stored employer labels. The largest exact-label cluster contributes three records, or 2.5% of the corpus. Five other exact labels contribute two records each. Case-normalisation reduces the employer-group count to 114 because one label appears with two capitalisation variants. Concentration is therefore low compared with a corpus dominated by one multi-location employer, but it is not zero.

Location evidence

Location is recorded as “Not stated in indexed public result” for 86 records. The remaining 36 strings are heterogeneous and were not normalised into countries or regions. Several indexed strings appear structurally ambiguous rather than reliably geographic. No geographic prevalence table is therefore reported. Employer identity was not used to infer jurisdiction.

Findings

Exact workflow-area combinations

Every accepted vacancy contains evidence for at least two broad workflow areas by design.

Workflow-area combination	Records	Corpus coverage
AP + AR/cash + reconciliation/close	42	34.4%
AP + reconciliation/close	28	23.0%
AR/cash + reconciliation/close	27	22.1%
AP + AR/cash	25	20.5%
Total	122	100.0%

The all-three group is the largest single combination, yet 80 records do not evidence all three areas. This matters for curriculum design. An integrated course is defensible because substantial records bridge the cycles, but role specialisation remains real. Learners should understand the common system while still being able to work in an AP-weighted, AR-weighted or transaction-accountant position.

Exact coded counts

Code	Evidenced activity	Records	Corpus coverage
W03	Reconciliation and close support	97	79.5%
W01	Accounts payable operations	95	77.9%
W02	Accounts receivable and cash operations	94	77.0%
S01	Month-end close	13	10.7%
S02	Customer billing and invoicing	12	9.8%
S03	Cash application and receipts	11	9.0%
S04	Vendor or customer reconciliation	11	9.0%
S05	Collections and credit control	11	9.0%
S06	Expense and card reconciliation	9	7.4%
S07	Bank and cash reconciliation	9	7.4%
S08	Aging review	9	7.4%
S09	ERP, accounting systems and Excel	6	4.9%
S10	Journal entries and accruals	6	4.9%
S11	Invoice processing and coding	5	4.1%
S12	Payment runs and disbursements	5	4.1%
S13	Discrepancy and exception resolution	5	4.1%
S14	Controls, compliance and audit support	5	4.1%
S15	Vendor master and queries	2	1.6%
S16	Balance-sheet and subledger reconciliation	2	1.6%
S17	Purchase-order and matching controls	1	0.8%

The table contains corpus counts, not market estimates. The 79.5%, 77.9% and 77.0% broad-code values are partly consequences of the two-area admission rule. The narrower values are conservative evidence counts because indexed descriptions often omit task detail. Neither kind of percentage should be used as an estimate of the share of all employers requiring a task.

Accounts payable as a controlled transaction path

AP operations are evidenced in 95 accepted records. The broader accepted role analysis shows what this path means operationally: intake and identify an invoice or credit; confirm supplier and transaction references; compare it with available order, receipt, contract or approval evidence under supplied policy; assign or check coding; record exceptions; prepare a reviewable posting or payment pack; respond to supplier-account questions; and reconcile supplier or AP balances to supporting records.

The narrow corpus codes should not be mistaken for a complete process census. Only five records explicitly meet the invoice-processing-and-coding pattern, five the payment-run pattern, two the vendor-master-or-query pattern and one the purchase-order-or-matching pattern. Those low counts do not negate the 95-record broad AP code. They show that the indexed text available for many records was too general to establish the narrower action. Curriculum inclusion should therefore combine frequency evidence with process necessity and accepted occupational or system evidence, rather than rank topics solely by narrow snippet counts.

Payment authority is distinct from preparation. A learner can inspect an invoice set, record a match status, assemble an exception queue and prepare a proposed payment-run control sheet. The course should not authorise bank access, supplier-bank changes, approval, release or transmission of money. This separation is both a professional control and a safe educational boundary.

Accounts receivable and cash operations as an open-item path

AR or cash operations are evidenced in 94 records. The interpreted workflow begins with a valid customer charge or billing input, creates an invoice or open receivable, records receipts, applies cash to supported open items, identifies partial, excess, unapplied or unidentified amounts, maintains aging visibility, follows approved B2B collection procedures, resolves disputes through documented handoff, and reconciles the customer subledger and control balance.

Within the corpus, 12 records explicitly evidence customer billing or invoicing, 11 cash application or receipts, 11 collections or credit control and nine aging review. These are separate actions. Billing creates or adjusts the amount due; cash application links a receipt to an item; aging is an as-of-date analysis; collections is a policy-bounded follow-up process; reconciliation tests whether the records connect. Compressing them into one generic “receivables” lesson would hide important evidence states and decision points.

The safe scope is B2B trade receivables using synthetic records and a supplied policy. Consumer debt collection, legal recovery, credit reporting, autonomous outreach, threats, statutory notices and jurisdiction-specific advice remain outside this report’s curriculum recommendation.

Reconciliation as the connecting control

Reconciliation or close support is the most frequent broad code, evidenced in 97 records. Reconciliation should not be reduced to “make two totals equal.” It is a structured explanation of whether two independently maintained representations of the same economic activity agree at a defined point in time, and, if they do not, what valid timing, classification, omission, duplication, posting or data-quality reason explains the difference.

The corpus explicitly codes 11 vendor or customer reconciliations, nine expense or card reconciliations, nine bank or cash reconciliations, and two balance-sheet or subledger reconciliations. Again, these are explicit evidence floors. Accepted occupational and system sources independently support bank matching, AP and AR records, discrepancy reporting, open-item settlement and subledger-to-general-ledger comparison.

A useful common sequence is: define the two populations and cut-off; obtain source versions; check opening balance continuity; compare identifiers and amounts; separate matched, timing and exception items; investigate without overwriting evidence; propose corrections only within role scope; record owner, due date and status; recompute the bridge; and prepare sign-off evidence for the responsible reviewer. This sequence can be applied to supplier statements, customer accounts, bank lines, expenses, cards, AP or AR subledgers, clearing accounts and general-ledger control balances.

Month-end close and journal support

Month-end close is explicitly coded in 13 records, while journal entries or accruals are coded in six. These narrower counts should inform but not bound curriculum. Close is the period at which unresolved transaction and reconciliation states become visible to reviewers. A realistic accounting-operations role may prepare schedules, explain aged items, document cut-off exceptions, assemble support for accruals or corrections, and hand reviewed information to an accountant or controller.

The learner should be assessed on traceability and readiness, not on selecting accounting policy. A close checklist can require source completeness, subledger status, open exception ownership, reconciliation bridges and evidence links. Any journal or accrual proposal should use a supplied policy and synthetic case, state the rationale and source, and remain subject to named human review.

Systems, spreadsheets and automation

ERP, accounting-system or Excel evidence is explicitly coded in six records. That number is too low to estimate technology demand because indexed descriptions often omit tool details and the accepted role analysis identifies systems and spreadsheets repeatedly. The appropriate inference is qualitative: learners need vendor-neutral system concepts and controlled spreadsheet habits, but this corpus cannot rank products or estimate the share of roles requiring a named tool.

The curriculum should focus on portable concepts: document and transaction identifiers, supplier and customer accounts, posting and settlement states, approval status, open-item status, aging date, period and cut-off, batch totals, exception reason, evidence link, owner, reviewer and audit trail. Spreadsheet work should include input/output separation, stable keys, controlled formulas, duplicate checks, reason codes, tie-out totals, version labels and review notes. Software-button memorisation is a weak substitute for understanding the evidence and state transitions.

Automation changes the location of work rather than eliminating the need for control. Where matching or cash-application suggestions are produced automatically, the professional still needs to understand what data were compared, which tolerances or rules were supplied, what remained unmatched, what evidence supports a decision, and who can approve the result. AI may help organise synthetic or authorised information, generate a question list or challenge a reconciliation explanation, but it cannot create source evidence, approve a posting, release payment, determine fraud or replace the responsible reviewer.

Exceptions, controls and communication

Five records explicitly evidence discrepancy or exception resolution, and five controls, compliance or audit support. The low explicit counts reflect snippet detail, while the inclusion logic and accepted role analysis make controlled exception work central to the end-to-end interpretation.

An exception is not just an error label. It needs a stable reference, the expected and observed states, amount and date, source links, reason category, owner, next action, due date, approval route and resolution evidence. Useful categories include missing evidence, duplicate candidate, price or quantity difference, receipt difference, wrong entity or account, timing difference, unidentified receipt, partial settlement, bank difference, interface failure and out-of-period item. The course should teach the learner to distinguish a supported timing item from an unresolved discrepancy and a stop-and-escalate signal.

Communication is part of the control environment. Supplier and customer queries, approval requests, remittance questions, dispute notes and close handoffs should be factual, specific, privacy-aware and linked to a case record. A message should state what is known, what is missing, what action is requested, the response date and where evidence belongs. It should not disclose unnecessary data, accuse a party, promise an outcome or conceal uncertainty.

Sensitivity analysis

One record per case-normalised employer

The primary corpus has 115 exact stored employer labels. To test whether repeated and differently capitalised labels materially shape the findings, a deterministic sensitivity view case-normalises the label, sorts records by record ID and retains the first record from each group. This produces 114 records from 114 normalised employer groups.

Measure	Full corpus	One-per-normalised-employer view
Records	122	114
Reconciliation and close support	97 (79.5%)	90 (78.9%)
AP operations	95 (77.9%)	88 (77.2%)
AR and cash operations	94 (77.0%)	88 (77.2%)
Month-end close	13 (10.7%)	11 (9.6%)
Customer billing and invoicing	12 (9.8%)	12 (10.5%)
Cash application and receipts	11 (9.0%)	11 (9.6%)
Vendor or customer reconciliation	11 (9.0%)	10 (8.8%)
Collections and credit control	11 (9.0%)	11 (9.6%)
Expense and card reconciliation	9 (7.4%)	8 (7.0%)
Bank and cash reconciliation	9 (7.4%)	8 (7.0%)
Aging review	9 (7.4%)	8 (7.0%)
ERP, accounting systems and Excel	6 (4.9%)	6 (5.3%)
Journal entries and accruals	6 (4.9%)	6 (5.3%)
Invoice processing and coding	5 (4.1%)	4 (3.5%)
Payment runs and disbursements	5 (4.1%)	5 (4.4%)
Discrepancy and exception resolution	5 (4.1%)	5 (4.4%)
Controls, compliance and audit support	5 (4.1%)	5 (4.4%)
Vendor master and queries	2 (1.6%)	1 (0.9%)
Balance-sheet and subledger reconciliation	2 (1.6%)	2 (1.8%)
Purchase-order and matching controls	1 (0.8%)	1 (0.9%)

The source mix in this view is 20 Ashby, five Greenhouse, 25 Lever, 30 SmartRecruiters and 34 Workday records. The role mix is 34 transaction-scope accountants, 16 accounting-operations or bookkeeping roles, 26 AP roles, 33 AR/billing/collections roles and five explicit combined AP/AR roles.

The broad-code coverage changes by less than one percentage point. Most narrow-code counts change by zero or one; month-end changes by two. This supports the limited conclusion that no repeated normalised employer group drives the principal workflow interpretation. It does not prove statistical robustness, because record selection remains purposive and deterministic rather than random.

Source-platform sensitivity

The five platform families differ in contribution, with Workday at 36 and Greenhouse at five. The role-family cross-tab also differs by platform: for example, Workday contributes 18 of the 35 AR/billing/collections records, while Ashby contributes 10 of the 36 transaction-scope accountant records. Platform results reflect query design, indexing and employer adoption. The study therefore does not compare platform-specific skill rates or treat platform balance as a proxy for market balance.

Missing-location sensitivity

With 86 of 122 records lacking a stated location in the indexed result and several remaining strings unsuitable for confident geographic coding, a regional sub-analysis would be unstable. Excluding missing locations would reduce the sample to 36 and condition the result on which platforms exposed a parseable location. The report avoids that misleading comparison.

What the sensitivity views establish

The sensitivity work shows that employer repetition is low and that the broad AP/AR/reconciliation pattern remains visible under a conservative employer cap. It also shows why the findings should remain corpus-specific: platform mix is uneven, location evidence is incomplete, the search frame is purposive, and the text available for coding is abbreviated.

Interpretation as an end-to-end accounting-operations workflow

The AP stream

1. Receive and identify the supplier document or transaction request.
2. Validate supplier, entity, date, amount, currency, references and supporting evidence under supplied policy.
3. Compare order, receipt, contract or approval evidence when applicable.
4. Assign or verify coding and record any exception without altering source evidence.
5. Prepare the transaction for review or posting through the approved workflow.
6. Assemble a payment-preparation pack, while keeping payment approval and release separate.
7. Maintain supplier-account visibility and resolve routine queries through documented communication.
8. Reconcile supplier statements, AP detail and the general-ledger control balance; carry unresolved items into the close exception log.

The AR stream

1. Validate the billing input and create or check the customer charge under supplied policy.
2. Maintain the customer open-item record and issue factual supporting communication through the approved channel.
3. Capture receipt evidence and apply cash to supported open items.
4. Isolate partial, excess, unapplied, unidentified or disputed amounts.
5. Review aging at a stated as-of date and prioritise follow-up under the supplied B2B credit policy.
6. Record disputes, promises, ownership and next actions without offering legal advice or autonomous collection decisions.
7. Reconcile customer accounts, receipt activity, AR detail and the general-ledger control balance.
8. Carry unresolved items into the close pack with evidence and reviewer ownership.

The reconciliation and close spine

The two streams meet through four representations of activity: source documents, AP or AR subledger records, cash or bank activity, and general-ledger control balances. Reconciliation tests the links between these representations at a defined cut-off. Close support collects the status of those tests, unresolved items, proposed corrections, reviewer decisions and evidence into a period-ready pack.

This integrated interpretation explains why the course title should name both transaction cycles and reconciliation. AP alone can teach invoice and supplier work but leaves the customer and receipt side incomplete. AR alone can teach billing, cash and collections but leaves supplier obligations incomplete. Reconciliation alone can become abstract without the transaction states that create differences. Accounting Operations provides the umbrella for all three while avoiding the implication of a licensed accountant role.

Observable professional outputs

Evidence supports practical outputs such as an invoice-intake register, matching worksheet, coding and approval checklist, AP exception log, payment-preparation control sheet, supplier-query note, billing control record, cash-application worksheet, unapplied-cash queue, aging review, B2B collection follow-up plan, dispute log, bank-reconciliation bridge, supplier or customer reconciliation, AP-to-GL and AR-to-GL tie-out, close checklist, proposed journal-support sheet, evidence index and reviewer handoff note.

These outputs should be assessed for reproducibility, traceability, arithmetic integrity, evidence state, privacy, authority and reviewer usability. They should not be assessed by whether a real payment, posting or customer contact occurred.

Curriculum implications

1. Use one accounting-operations system, not three disconnected mini-courses

The combination counts support an integrated architecture. Learners should see how AP and AR transactions create balances that later appear in supplier, customer, bank, subledger and general-ledger reconciliations. Repeated identifiers, evidence states and exception logic should connect lessons.

2. Teach role boundaries before transaction processing

The opening unit should distinguish preparation, review, approval, release and policy ownership. Learners need to know which actions they can perform, which require review, and which require escalation. This is especially important for bank-detail changes, payment release, write-offs, accounting treatment, tax, consumer collection and suspected fraud.

3. Build AP around evidence and exception states

AP learning should cover invoice intake, duplicate checks, purchase-order and receipt evidence, coding, approval status, credit notes, supplier queries, payment preparation and AP reconciliation. A blank template and a realistic completed example should accompany each major artifact.

4. Build AR around open items and cash states

AR learning should separate billing, receipt capture, cash application, aging, collections follow-up and disputes. Cases should include partial payment, overpayment, unapplied cash, unidentified receipt, credit note and contested invoice, each with a defined evidence and authority route.

5. Make reconciliation a repeated method

Learners should practise the same core reconciliation logic across supplier, customer, bank, expense, card, subledger and control-account contexts. The method should require cut-off, source population, stable keys, matched items, timing items, true exceptions, proposed corrections, owner, reviewer and sign-off evidence.

6. Connect daily operations to month-end readiness

Close should not appear only in a final lecture. Each AP and AR lesson should show which data quality, evidence or unresolved exception affects period readiness. The final module can then integrate rollforwards, tie-outs, journal support, close checklists and reviewer handoff.

7. Teach spreadsheets and systems through portable controls

Examples should use synthetic exports and vendor-neutral fields. Learners should practise stable identifiers, controlled lookups, totals, duplicate tests, aging dates, status values, exception reasons, evidence links and version control. Named systems may illustrate concepts only where rights allow and should not become the course’s operating dependency.

8. Treat communication as an assessed work product

Supplier and customer queries, approval requests, dispute summaries and close notes should be evaluated for clarity, factual restraint, privacy and actionable next steps. Learners should state uncertainty and missing evidence rather than inventing a reason.

9. Use AI for organisation and challenge, not authority

AI practice should use synthetic inputs and require source verification. Useful tasks include proposing an exception taxonomy, checking whether a reconciliation explanation is complete, drafting a factual query from supplied evidence, or generating review questions. The learner must verify every factual statement and retain decision responsibility. AI must not approve transactions, release money, change master data, determine fraud or produce accounting-policy conclusions.

10. Assess one realistic month-end accounting-operations pack

The capstone should use one synthetic business situation with AP invoices, supplier statements, customer invoices, receipts, bank lines, subledger extracts, control balances and unresolved exceptions. The principal deliverable should be a coherent month-end accounting-operations pack with reconciliations, exception ownership and reviewer handoff. It may reuse course methods but should not become a checklist that mechanically assembles every course artifact.

Rights, ethics and claims boundaries

The report supports an original, system-neutral course. It does not support copying vacancy text, ERP help pages, IFRS material, COSO diagrams, PCI content, professional-body course expression or examination questions. Public occupational facts should be cited; employer evidence should remain factual and minimally paraphrased; examples and templates should be original MTF material.

The proposed credential is a non-degree MTF professional course and certificate of completion. It should not be described as an accounting qualification, academic credit, licence, accredited personnel certification, professional-body examination preparation or employer recognition. The evidence does not support promises of employment, promotion, salary, accuracy, compliance, fraud prevention or universal accounting treatment.

The curriculum may teach learners to prepare, check, reconcile, document and escalate routine transaction-accounting work under a supplied policy. It should exclude:

• selection of accounting policy or formal financial-reporting conclusions;
• statutory filings and tax, VAT or GST advice;
• payroll and treasury strategy;
• real invoice, journal, supplier, customer, bank, payment or collection changes;
• payment or refund approval and release;
• supplier bank-detail creation or change;
• consumer debt collection, legal recovery or jurisdiction-specific collection advice;
• audit opinions or control-effectiveness conclusions;
• fraud, sanctions or anti-money-laundering determinations;
• real personal, cardholder, bank, tax, credential, customer, supplier or confidential employer data; and
• third-party certification, compliance, accreditation, endorsement or outcome claims.

Where a case presents urgent pressure, changed bank details, inconsistent evidence, suspected duplication or an unexplained balance, the correct learning behaviour is to stop the affected action, preserve evidence and escalate through the supplied authority route. It is not to accuse a party or make a legal, fraud or compliance determination.

Limitations

1. Purposive sampling. The corpus was constructed to cover suitable AP, AR and reconciliation roles, not through random selection. Corpus proportions are not labour-market estimates.
2. Admission-rule effects. Every record had to evidence at least two broad workflow areas. The high broad-code counts are therefore partly structural.
3. Indexed-text dependence. Coding uses the retained indexed title and public-search description. Short or uneven descriptions under-record narrow duties, tools and context.
4. Point-in-time current status. Vacancies can close or change after 29 August 2026. “Current” means visible without a closure signal at retrieval.
5. English-language and source-platform boundaries. The sample is English-language and restricted to five employer ATS families found through the documented searches. Other platforms and languages may allocate work differently.
6. Uneven platform mix. Workday and SmartRecruiters contribute more than half of the records. Platform indexing and query response can influence available detail.
7. Incomplete geography. Eighty-six records lack a stated location in the indexed result, and some remaining strings are not reliably geographic. No regional comparison is supported.
8. Role heterogeneity. The corpus combines AP, AR, combined AP/AR, bookkeeping, accounting operations and transaction-scope accountant titles. It supports a common workflow but not interchangeability of every role.
9. Employer-label uncertainty. Employer or publisher labels are retained as indexed. Case variants and recruiting intermediaries can affect employer counts.
10. No task intensity measure. A code records evidence presence, not hours, priority, seniority, complexity or performance level.
11. No causal or outcome claim. The design cannot show that a skill causes hiring, performance, promotion, pay or course effectiveness.
12. Occupational-source boundaries. O*NET and BLS are U.S.-specific; ILO and national classifications are broader than this course. They support role context, not vacancy-count inference.
13. System-documentation boundaries. Oracle and Microsoft documentation illustrates possible transaction states and controls. It does not establish a universal workflow or product requirement.
14. Legal and accounting boundaries. This is curriculum research, not legal, tax, accounting, privacy, audit or compliance advice. Workplace policy and jurisdiction determine real actions.

Conclusion

The accepted evidence describes a coherent accounting-operations work system rather than a single universally named profession. Across 122 current vacancy records, 42 evidence AP, AR or cash work, and reconciliation or close support together; 80 evidence one of the three possible two-area combinations. Reconciliation or close support appears in 97 records, AP in 95 and AR or cash work in 94. Narrow codes identify billing, cash application, collections, aging, bank and account reconciliation, close, journals, invoice processing, payment preparation, exception handling and control support, while also revealing the limits of indexed descriptions.

The defensible course title is therefore Professional Certificate in Accounting Operations: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Reconciliation. It names the exact work without claiming one universal job title or licensed accountant status. The curriculum should connect transaction intake, evidence checks, open-item management, cash and payment preparation, reconciliation, exception resolution and close handoff through practical artifacts. It should remain original, system-neutral and jurisdiction-neutral, with synthetic records and explicit separation between preparation, review, approval, release and policy authority.

References

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2. ONET Resource Center. ONET License Agreements. https://www.onetcenter.org/license_agreements.html
3. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/office-and-administrative-support/bookkeeping-accounting-and-auditing-clerks.htm
4. International Labour Organization. ISCO-08 Volume I, Unit Group 4311: Accounting and Bookkeeping Clerks. https://webapps.ilo.org/ilostat-files/ISCO/newdocs-08-2021/ISCO-08/ISCO-08%20EN%20Vol%201.pdf
5. Government of Canada, NOC/OaSIS. 14200.00 Accounting and related clerks. https://noc.esdc.gc.ca/OASIS/OASISOccProfile?code=14200.00&version=2022.0
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O*NET attribution

This report uses brief adapted occupational facts from ONET OnLine. ONET® is a trademark of the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Applicable O*NET information is used under CC BY 4.0; MTF Institute modified the expression, and no endorsement by the U.S. Department of Labor is implied. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Appendix A — Data dictionary

Field	Meaning	Rule
record_id	Stable corpus record identifier	Format APAR-20260829-NNN; one per accepted row
source_family	Employer ATS family	Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters or Workday employer ATS
publisher_employer	Employer or publisher label in the public result	Retained as indexed; not silently standardised
exact_title	Vacancy title in the indexed result	Search-engine suffixes may be removed without rewriting the role name
location	Location text available in the indexed result	Missing values remain Not stated in indexed public result; no inference
retrieval_date	Point-in-time evidence date	Exactly 2026-08-29 for all accepted rows
url	Canonical individual vacancy URL	Tracking, fragment and trailing application noise removed; identity retained
current_status_signal	Why the vacancy was treated as current	Publicly returned on retrieval date with no indexed closed or expired signal
minimal_paraphrased_supporting_fact	Short original statement supporting admission	No vacancy-body reproduction
workflow_areas	Broad multi-label AP, AR/cash and reconciliation/close codes	At least two distinct areas required for admission
coded_skills	Narrow and broad deterministic multi-label codes	Evidence presence; one count per code per record
role_family	Analytical title grouping	One of five accepted families
dedup_key	Hashed employer-title-ATS identity	Unique across the accepted corpus
rights_classification	Permitted evidence use	Public factual metadata plus minimal paraphrase
limitation	Row-level evidence caveat	Point-in-time and indexed-text limits retained

Appendix B — Compact coding guide

Code	Label	Evidence interpretation
W01	Accounts payable operations	AP, supplier-invoice, payable or disbursement work is evidenced
W02	Accounts receivable and cash operations	AR, billing, receivable, receipt, cash-application or collections work is evidenced
W03	Reconciliation and close support	Reconciliation, close or account tie-out work is evidenced
S01	Month-end close	Month-end or period-close participation is explicit
S02	Customer billing and invoicing	Customer or sales invoicing is explicit
S03	Cash application and receipts	Receipt recording, allocation or application is explicit
S04	Vendor or customer reconciliation	Supplier, vendor or customer-account reconciliation is explicit
S05	Collections and credit control	Collections, dunning, credit control or receivables follow-up is explicit
S06	Expense and card reconciliation	Expense, card or employee-spend reconciliation is explicit
S07	Bank and cash reconciliation	Bank account, cash or bank-statement reconciliation is explicit
S08	Aging review	AP or AR aging analysis is explicit
S09	ERP, accounting systems and Excel	ERP, accounting-system or spreadsheet capability is explicit
S10	Journal entries and accruals	Journal or accrual preparation or support is explicit
S11	Invoice processing and coding	Invoice intake, processing, validation or coding is explicit
S12	Payment runs and disbursements	Payment-run preparation or disbursement processing is explicit
S13	Discrepancy and exception resolution	Investigation or resolution of mismatches and exceptions is explicit
S14	Controls, compliance and audit support	Control, evidence, compliance or audit-support work is explicit
S15	Vendor master and queries	Supplier-master maintenance or vendor-query handling is explicit
S16	Balance-sheet and subledger reconciliation	Subledger-to-ledger or balance-sheet-account reconciliation is explicit
S17	Purchase-order and matching controls	Purchase-order, receipt or multi-way matching is explicit

Appendix C — Compact public vacancy source list

The following entries are generated directly from the accepted 122-row evidence ledger. They provide factual metadata and links, not reproduced vacancy descriptions. Pages may close or change after the evidence date.

ID	Employer or publisher	Exact indexed title	ATS family	Public URL
APAR-20260829-001	Agent	Staff Accountant @ Agent	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Agent/fd82a0f2-c16b-498e-8bc2-4d7d9216fd71
APAR-20260829-002	AnyVan	Accounts Payable Specialist @ AnyVan	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/anyvan/ab1549d1-03a4-4436-86d5-11741c0e0794
APAR-20260829-003	Candid Health	Finance Operations Associate @ Candid Health	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/candidhealth/d5267ead-522a-43fc-8cb1-f75c5503e23c
APAR-20260829-004	Curvion Blue	Staff Accountant @ Curvion Blue	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/curvionblue/8b422ba8-6c28-4afe-bfd3-7ac3218b6846
APAR-20260829-005	Del Playa Group	Full-charge Bookkeeper (US - Remote) @ Del Playa Group	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/delplayagroup/1d521394-e72c-477d-b390-9f7d64b9bbcd
APAR-20260829-006	Docebo	Accounts Receivable Specialist @ Docebo	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/docebo/699526ec-9da9-4abb-b924-3194429f00ef
APAR-20260829-007	Eight Sleep	Senior Accountant @ Eight Sleep	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/eightsleep/d1859983-528b-4766-bdb2-a175e18651d6
APAR-20260829-008	EliseAI	Accounts Payable Specialist @ EliseAI	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/EliseAI/2986831b-75df-4a52-8819-e47884d33068
APAR-20260829-009	Evertune	Staff Accountant @ Evertune	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/evertune/08899855-3193-4861-a87b-40f1d62031a7
APAR-20260829-010	fal	Account Receivable Specialist @ fal	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fal-ai/ce74dc77-a416-44c4-8d9b-4937e3ef7f01
APAR-20260829-011	Harvey	Global Senior Accounts Payable Analyst @ Harvey	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/harvey/3a48daa6-a85f-479f-badd-ca4cf496f72f
APAR-20260829-012	Inductive Automation LLC	Accounting Supervisor @ Inductive Automation LLC	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/inductive-automation-llc/a4c63284-d083-4c76-8b62-f35572324e25
APAR-20260829-013	jobs.ashbyhq.com	Accounting Specialist (Accounts Receivable & Payable)	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hirehangar/8590bc11-8217-46f3-a4a1-55e9932b4398
APAR-20260829-014	Obsidian Systems	Staff Accountant @ Obsidian Systems	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/obsidiansystems/c600ea27-53e7-424c-98ae-dd03fc55a3d6
APAR-20260829-015	OpenAI	Senior Credit & Collections @ OpenAI	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/c6094d81-4be2-40c7-8ae1-62f257fd1d49
APAR-20260829-016	PartsBase Inc.	Accountant @ PartsBase Inc.	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/partsbase/85827869-4da6-4488-8905-8cc3d406b901
APAR-20260829-017	Pear VC	Accounts Receivable Specialist - NeuroNav @ Pear VC	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Pear-VC/4f94427f-f267-4024-bc3d-b5d733446460
APAR-20260829-018	Prompt	Staff Accountant @ Prompt	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/prompt/0c8f563d-5433-43a7-9cee-006e39d12162
APAR-20260829-019	Satispay	Senior Financial Accountant @ Satispay	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/satispay/5489d9d5-7d39-48a4-a5c1-111afeb4ca2d
APAR-20260829-020	VSG Recruitment	General Accountant @ VSG Recruitment	Ashby employer ATS	https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/VSG%20Recruitment/885dcf8d-f19d-4579-b0ee-637598fd39a0
APAR-20260829-021	AEG Worldwide	Job Application for Staff Accountant (L.A. LIVE) at AEG Worldwide	Greenhouse employer ATS	https://boards.greenhouse.io/aegworldwide/jobs/8723924002
APAR-20260829-022	Banyan ...	Job Application for Management Trainee – Finance at Banyan ...	Greenhouse employer ATS	https://boards.greenhouse.io/banyancanopygroup/jobs/5201527007
APAR-20260829-023	capco	Mid Technology Delivery - BOOKKEEPER - GLOBAL- Hyd	Greenhouse employer ATS	https://boards.greenhouse.io/capco/jobs/8095516
APAR-20260829-024	parloa	Junior Accountant, Accounts Payable	Greenhouse employer ATS	https://boards.greenhouse.io/parloa/jobs/4957430101
APAR-20260829-025	votesolar	Associate, Talent, Finance + Operations (TFO) - Greenhouse	Greenhouse employer ATS	https://boards.greenhouse.io/votesolar/jobs/5406877008
APAR-20260829-026	Aprio PH	Aprio PH - Senior Accounting Onboarding Associate (QBO, ...	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/Aprio/bc5d13b6-1688-4e82-9b62-bbadad9281b2
APAR-20260829-027	Arrive Logistics	Arrive Logistics - Accounts Receivable Specialist	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/arrivelogistics/16608370-2d00-4397-9ff6-ffae861ba067
APAR-20260829-028	arrivelogistics	Accounts Receivable Specialist - Arrive Logistics	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/arrivelogistics/da884856-a9e9-4b32-9ef5-d51e79f11261
APAR-20260829-029	Assist World	Assist World - Bookkeeper / Accounting Virtual Assistant	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/assist-world/b299685d-4fd1-4809-bc09-7401a3ec3beb
APAR-20260829-030	cgsfederal	Senior Accounting Technician	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/cgsfederal/e8e5bcf9-7d7a-40d1-bffe-580141715899
APAR-20260829-031	dynamic-connections	Senior Accounting Coordinator - Dynamic Connections	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/dynamic-connections/0b6f73f5-ab17-4bdb-b3c3-215ec28167ed
APAR-20260829-032	esrtreit	Sr. Multifamily Property Accountant - Empire State Realty Trust	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/esrtreit/21cc18aa-82b2-4029-8a41-7df55baff15a
APAR-20260829-033	farfetch	Senior Accounting Analyst - Farfetch	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/farfetch/75a201e1-4657-47b7-a27a-9c8b9abd8181
APAR-20260829-034	getwingapp	Accounts Receivable/Payable Specialist - Wing Assistant	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/getwingapp/530e3de8-e69c-412d-85c6-6c71703507f1
APAR-20260829-035	GHJ	GHJ - Bookkeeper	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/ghj/ea154f42-3e39-44b1-9a10-3c4e84a1bd27
APAR-20260829-036	Gushwork	Gushwork - Finance Associate	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/gushwork/31cb9660-1c68-4a49-abe9-5fc28baf494e
APAR-20260829-037	Hanna Andersson	Hanna Andersson - Accounts Payable Specialist	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/hannaandersson/a711510a-e9ba-4938-b766-905097941296
APAR-20260829-038	High Tech High	High Tech High - Senior Accountant I	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/hightechhigh/995b6658-76de-490e-bf76-bd299ab2a5d7
APAR-20260829-039	Jobgether	Jobgether - Accounts Receivable Specialist	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/jobgether/5c1f08f2-f319-45aa-8530-f7a95f5b8bef
APAR-20260829-040	Jobgether	Jobgether - Senior Accountant	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/jobgether/078938d6-beaa-47c1-8050-582cd1dda759
APAR-20260829-041	jobgether	Staff Accountant - Jobgether	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/jobgether/42cb6959-f7bc-46cb-990d-c773d557c710
APAR-20260829-042	Kyverna	Accounts Payable Specialist (Coupa) Contract	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/Kyverna/43519b3e-badc-4fce-a06d-4bb5318e0846
APAR-20260829-043	Murgado Automotive Group	Murgado Automotive Group - Automotive Bookkeeper	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/murgadoautomotive/7ed5f050-818f-46cf-befc-cdfb82e64a27
APAR-20260829-044	panopto	Accounts Receivable & Billing Specialist (UK/Ireland)	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/panopto/37a34acf-4d44-4f1f-bcb0-9a42490e99e1
APAR-20260829-045	Proper	Proper - Accountant I - Mexico remote	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/proper/c0611195-7613-4f8e-8dcb-9c859ae5f231
APAR-20260829-046	Rainmaker Technology Corporation	Rainmaker Technology Corporation - AR / AP Specialist	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/make-rain/7aa2893c-7c36-42f8-a03d-ccb0eef97c69
APAR-20260829-047	scholarsoffinance	Scholars of Finance - Accountant & Financial Analyst	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/scholarsoffinance/606b9c5c-adf3-4af1-8e96-25e5fa1735d2
APAR-20260829-048	Solar Landscape	Solar Landscape - Accounts Payable Specialist	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/solarlandscape/a5184d06-1812-4564-b6a4-d107e621edda
APAR-20260829-049	spineandsportsmed	Accounts Payable Specialist - SportsMed Physical Therapy	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/spineandsportsmed/be1d35ee-94c7-4c9b-ab2c-02261720f9bb
APAR-20260829-050	suger	Bookkeeper - Suger.io	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/suger/a37f7882-e297-4a95-9fee-66cecbe5410e
APAR-20260829-051	uaustin	Accounting Assistant - UATX	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/uaustin/5cd6a674-cd76-4937-8d61-708e5f641b25
APAR-20260829-052	Zen Educate	Zen Educate - Finance Operations Specialist	Lever employer ATS	https://jobs.lever.co/zeneducate/c6f69a46-b37a-4fa8-948a-9bdc9235c0aa
APAR-20260829-053	AccorHotel	AccorHotel Hotel Accountant	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AccorHotel/744000142743549-hotel-accountant
APAR-20260829-054	Altisource	Altisource Analyst, Accounts Receivable	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Altisource/744000091455475-analyst-accounts-receivable
APAR-20260829-055	ArtechInformationSystemLLC	Collections Specialist/Accounts Receivable	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ArtechInformationSystemLLC/98718220--collections-specialist-accounts-receivable
APAR-20260829-056	AubergeCollection	Auberge Collection Accounts Payable Specialist (Hybrid)	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/AubergeCollection/744000144603109-accounts-payable-specialist-
APAR-20260829-057	Aumovio	Aumovio Accounts Payable Analyst/Specialist	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Aumovio/744000120859308-accounts-payable-analyst-specialist
APAR-20260829-058	Aumovio	Aumovio Accounts Receivable Analyst / Specialist	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Aumovio/744000145221619-accounts-receivable-analyst-specialist
APAR-20260829-059	ClarkDavisAssociates	Clark Davis Associates Staff Accountant	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ClarkDavisAssociates/88795687-staff-accountant
APAR-20260829-060	Collabera2	Collabera Accounting Clerk (Accounts Payable)	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Collabera2/91599979-accounting-clerk-accounts-payable-
APAR-20260829-061	ContinentalGroupSectorContiTech	Accounts Payable Specialist / Analyst	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ContinentalGroupSectorContiTech/744000138819239-accounts-payable-specialist-analyst
APAR-20260829-062	Deloitte6	Deloitte Accountant	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Deloitte6/744000057526798--accountant
APAR-20260829-063	Devexperts	Devexperts Accountant	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Devexperts/744000136180315-accountant
APAR-20260829-064	dstaff	Direct Staffing Inc BOOKKEEPER	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/dstaff/81712006-bookkeeper
APAR-20260829-065	dstaff	Direct Staffing Inc Bookkeeper	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/dstaff/82672679-bookkeeper
APAR-20260829-066	Dungarvin	Dungarvin Accounts Receivable Specialist (AR)	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Dungarvin/744000145987539-accounts-receivable-specialist-ar-
APAR-20260829-067	Endygo	Endygo Accounting Clerk	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Endygo/743999811955123-accounting-clerk
APAR-20260829-068	eurofins	Eurofins Accountant PtP (Accounts Payable) (m/f)	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/eurofins/744000143992309-accountant-ptp-accounts-payable-
APAR-20260829-069	FOODMatch	FOODMatch Staff Accountant	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/FOODMatch/744000128730436-staff-accountant
APAR-20260829-070	FutureStepKornFerry	Senior Accounts Receivable Accountant	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/FutureStepKornFerry/79759762-senior-accounts-receivable-accountant-
APAR-20260829-071	GreenKissStaffingSolutions	GreenKiss Staffing Solutions, Inc. Accounting Specialists	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GreenKissStaffingSolutions/85748274-accounting-specialists
APAR-20260829-072	IngramContentGroup1	Ingram Content Group Associate Credit Representative	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/IngramContentGroup1/744000143904619-associate-credit-representative
APAR-20260829-073	JobsForHumanity	Jobs for Humanity Fresh Accountant	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/JobsForHumanity/744000056957385-fresh-accountant-
APAR-20260829-074	LifeScienceOutsourcingInc	Life Science Outsourcing, Inc. Junior Accountant (AP/AR)	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/LifeScienceOutsourcingInc/744000137226329-junior-accountant-ap-ar-
APAR-20260829-075	LiniumResources	Linium Resources Accounting Specialist	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/LiniumResources/86769283-accounting-specialist
APAR-20260829-076	LouisDreyfusCompany	Louis Dreyfus Company Accounts Payable Analyst	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/LouisDreyfusCompany/744000139047489-accounts-payable-analyst
APAR-20260829-077	LouisDreyfusCompany	Louis Dreyfus Company Accounts Payable Specialist	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/LouisDreyfusCompany/744000143363259-accounts-payable-specialist
APAR-20260829-078	Mindlance2	Mindlance Account Receivable Specialist	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Mindlance2/116437680-account-receivable-specialist
APAR-20260829-079	Mindlance2	Mindlance Accounts receivable	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Mindlance2/107138948-accounts-receivable
APAR-20260829-080	REXEL1	REXEL Senior Accounts Payable Specialist	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/REXEL1/744000144626405-senior-accounts-payable-specialist
APAR-20260829-081	SeekThermalInc	Seek Thermal, Inc Staff Accountant	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/SeekThermalInc/744000146079749-staff-accountant-
APAR-20260829-082	StrategicHRInc	strategic HR, inc. Accounting and Operations Specialist	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/StrategicHRInc/744000142742809-accounting-and-operations-specialist
APAR-20260829-083	Sutherland	Accounts Payable Specialist with German (remote	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Sutherland/744000138056187-accounts-payable-specialist-with-german-remote-bulgaria-based-
APAR-20260829-084	SynearFoodsUSALLC	Accounting Clerk (Accounts Receivable) – Bilingual ...	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/SynearFoodsUSALLC/3743990014355086-accounting-clerk-accounts-receivable-bilingual-chinese-preferred
APAR-20260829-085	TheWonderfulCompany	The Wonderful Company Accounts Payable Specialist	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheWonderfulCompany/744000144174479-accounts-payable-specialist
APAR-20260829-086	UnitekLearning	Unitek Learning Sr. Accountant - General Ledger	SmartRecruiters employer ATS	https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/UnitekLearning/744000136085015-sr-accountant-general-ledger
APAR-20260829-087	aresmgmt	Analyst, Accounts Receivable	Workday employer ATS	https://aresmgmt.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Analyst--Accounts-Receivable_R8288
APAR-20260829-088	boseallaboutme	Staff Accountant	Workday employer ATS	https://boseallaboutme.wd503.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Bose_Careers/job/Accountant-III_R29017
APAR-20260829-089	bridgestone	Sales Support - Accountant	Workday employer ATS	https://bridgestone.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WF_External_Careers/job/Sales-Support---Accountant_2026_18422
APAR-20260829-090	connorgp	Senior Accounts Payable & Receivable Associate, CX	Workday employer ATS	https://connorgp.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CG/job/Senior-Accounts-Payable---Receivable-Associate--CX_JR100811
APAR-20260829-091	delegatecx	Home-Based AP/AR Specialist	Workday employer ATS	https://delegatecx.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/DCX/job/Home-Based-AP-AR-Specialist_JR104403
APAR-20260829-092	delegatecx	Home-Based AP/AR Specialist & Customer Service ...	Workday employer ATS	https://delegatecx.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/dcx/job/remote-philippines/home-based-ap-ar-specialist---customer-service-representative_jr104577
APAR-20260829-093	delegatecx	Home-Based ProBooks Accounting Specialist	Workday employer ATS	https://delegatecx.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/DCX/job/Home-Based-ProBooks-Accounting-Specialist_JR104546
APAR-20260829-094	dennemeyer	Accounts Receivable Specialist (f/m/d)	Workday employer ATS	https://dennemeyer.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/dennemeyer_linkedIn/job/Accounts-Receivable-Specialist_2025-0285
APAR-20260829-095	enovis	Senior Accountant - German	Workday employer ATS	https://enovis.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/enovis/job/Accounts-Receivable-Agent_R0031541-1
APAR-20260829-096	fccenvironmental	AR Specialist – Cash Application & Reconciliation (Spring, TX)	Workday employer ATS	https://fccenvironmental.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FCC_Environmental_Services/job/AR-Specialist---Cash-Application---Reconciliation--Spring--TX-_JR102675
APAR-20260829-097	gia	Senior Accounts Receivable Analyst	Workday employer ATS	https://gia.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/GIAServices/job/Senior-Accounts-Receivable-Analyst_R0011250
APAR-20260829-098	hyva	Accounts Receivable Accountant	Workday employer ATS	https://hyva.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/HyvaGroup/job/Accounts-Receivable-Accountant_JR100366
APAR-20260829-099	jacksonhealthcare	Accounts Payable Specialist	Workday employer ATS	https://jacksonhealthcare.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers-jacksonhealthcare/job/Alpharetta-Georgia/Accounts-Payable-Specialist_JR109020
APAR-20260829-100	jd	JD Young Accounts Receivable Specialist Internship	Workday employer ATS	https://jd.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Campus_Career_Site/job/JD-Young-Accounts-Receivable-Specialist-Internship_JR102779
APAR-20260829-101	jll	Accounts Payable Accountant	Workday employer ATS	https://jll.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jllcareers/job/Accounts-Payable-Accountant_REQ528283
APAR-20260829-102	lesschwab	Billing Specialist I (Contingent)	Workday employer ATS	https://lesschwab.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/HQ/job/Billing-Specialist-I--Contingent-_R-15201
APAR-20260829-103	maine	Accounts Payable Specialist II	Workday employer ATS	https://maine.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Executive/job/Augusta-Maine/Accounts-Payable-Specialist-II_R26-02958
APAR-20260829-104	marathonhealth	Accounts Payable Specialist - Marathon-Health	Workday employer ATS	https://marathonhealth.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Marathon-Health-Careers/job/Accounts-Payable-Specialist_JR108493-1
APAR-20260829-105	markelcorp	Accounts Receivable Specialist	Workday employer ATS	https://markelcorp.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/GlobalCareers/job/Accounts-Receivable-Specialist_R0023417
APAR-20260829-106	mckesson	Accounts Receivable Specialist - 12 Month Contract	Workday employer ATS	https://mckesson.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Careers/job/Accounts-Receivable-Specialist---12-Month-Contract_JR0152514-1
APAR-20260829-107	mksinst	Accounts Receivable / Cash Applications / Collections Specialist	Workday employer ATS	https://mksinst.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MKSCareersAmericas/job/Accounts-Receivable---Cash-Applications---Collections-Specialist_R21613
APAR-20260829-108	myhrabc	Accounts Receivable Clerk II Returns	Workday employer ATS	https://myhrabc.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Global/job/Accounts-Receivable-Clerk-II-Returns_R2611437
APAR-20260829-109	nbtbancorp	Staff Accountant - EPIC	Workday employer ATS	https://nbtbancorp.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EPIC/job/Staff-Accountant---EPIC_JR4729
APAR-20260829-110	prysmiangroup	McKinney Accounts Payable Specialist	Workday employer ATS	https://prysmiangroup.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/it-IT/Careers/job/McKinney-Accounts-Payable-Specialist_R-35619-2
APAR-20260829-111	relx	Accounts Receivable Specialist I	Workday employer ATS	https://relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/relx/job/Accounts-Receivable-Specialist-I_R117512
APAR-20260829-112	roche	Accounts Payable Specialist	Workday employer ATS	https://roche.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/roche-ext/job/Accounts-Payable-Specialist_202607-118281
APAR-20260829-113	rollsroyce	Senior Accounts Receivable Specialist with Italian - Logo	Workday employer ATS	https://rollsroyce.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/professional/job/Senior-Accounts-Receivable-Specialist-with-Italian_JR6153185
APAR-20260829-114	seminolehardrock	Accounts Payable Specialist	Workday employer ATS	https://seminolehardrock.wd503.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/seminolehardrockcareers/job/Accounts-Payable-Specialist_R11526
APAR-20260829-115	sjsurf	Accounts Receivable/Risk Accountant	Workday employer ATS	https://sjsurf.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/SJSURF/job/Research-Foundation-Central-Office/Accounts-Receivable-Risk-Accountant_JR_2026_194
APAR-20260829-116	solenis	Accounts Receivable Specialist, HK	Workday employer ATS	https://solenis.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Solenis/job/Accounts-Receivable-Specialist--HK_R0031915
APAR-20260829-117	tihinsurance	Accounts Payable Specialist	Workday employer ATS	https://tihinsurance.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CRC_Careers/job/Accounts-Payable-Specialist_R0000003064
APAR-20260829-118	usbank	Accounting Specialist	Workday employer ATS	https://usbank.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/US_Bank_Careers/job/Accounting-Specialist_2026-0020385
APAR-20260829-119	veralto	Accounts Payable – Bank & Expense Accountant	Workday employer ATS	https://veralto.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/de-DE/EskoJobs/job/Accounts-Payable---Bank---Expense-Accountant_R10267905
APAR-20260829-120	vsp	Senior Accounts Receivable Specialist	Workday employer ATS	https://vsp.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/VSPVisionCareers/job/Senior-Accounts-Receivable-Specialist_R-9837
APAR-20260829-121	yeticoolers	Accounts Receivable Specialist	Workday employer ATS	https://yeticoolers.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/YETI/job/Accounts-Receivable-Specialist_JR102163
APAR-20260829-122	zeissgroup	Accounts Receivable Specialist	Workday employer ATS	https://zeissgroup.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Accounts-Receivable-Specialist_JR_1051444

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The capabilities examined in this report are developed in MTF Institute's Professional Certificate in Accounting Operations: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Reconciliation through structured learning and applied practice.