A/R Specialist

As an Accounts Receivable Specialist at CME Group, you play a vital role in safeguarding financial precision and optimizing corporate liquidity. This position is essential to maintaining overall operational efficiency within our financial operations group, ensuring open accounts receivables balances are collected in a timely manner across high-volume billing lines. By bridging proactive client engagement with modern cash management workflows, you ensure customer accounts reflect true balances, maintain accurate aging records, and directly support the financial health of the world's leading derivatives marketplace.

What You’ll Get

• A supportive environment fostering career progression, continuous learning, and an inclusive culture.
• Broad exposure to CME's diverse products, asset classes, and cross-functional teams. A competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package. Explore our full range of benefits

What You’ll Do

• Manage proactive client engagement and collection efforts for assigned accounts to secure timely settlement of open receivable balances.
• Investigate and resolve complex billing inquiries, payment delays, and customer account discrepancies through collaborative problem-solving.
• Identify operational trends and root causes of account delinquency, partnering with leadership to implement preventive solutions.
• Leverage enterprise financial systems and automated cash application platforms to streamline cash matching, account reconciliation, and payment workflows.
• Deliver structured account analysis and aging reports to internal stakeholders and financial leadership. Execute key month-end closing activities, customer account adjustments, and assigned financial projects with high attention to accuracy.

What You’ll Bring

• Demonstrate direct experience in Business-to-Business (B2B) collections and commercial accounts receivable operations.
• Utilize Workday or comparable enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to navigate corporate financial workflows.
• Apply familiarity with modern automated cash application software to optimize daily payment processing and matching.
• Deploy intermediate Microsoft Excel capabilities to organize, analyze, and reconcile financial data.
• Communicate with clarity, diplomacy, and impact across external client management and internal business partners. Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business (preferred), or equivalent practical experience in financial operations.

CME Group is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package for our employees that recognizes their contributions to the business and reflects our long-term investment in their future. The pay range for this role is $22.74-$37.93. Actual salary offered will be dependent on a wide array of factors including but not limited to: relevant experience, skills, education and comparison to internal employees (where relevant). Our compensation program also includes an annual target bonus opportunity for all employees, as well as the opportunity to become an owner in the company through our broad-based equity program. Through our benefits program, we strive to offer flexibility, value and choice. From comprehensive health coverage, to a retirement package that includes both a 401(k) and an active pension plan, to highly competitive education reimbursement provisions, paid time off and a mental health benefit, CME Group offers a holistic benefits package for our team and their dependents.

CME Group: Where Futures are Made

CME Group is the world’s leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it – all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we’re looking for more.

At CME Group, we embrace our employees' unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and valued. As an equal-opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.

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