Sr Billing Specialist

Founded in 1898 and headquartered in Chicago, IL, GATX Corporation (NYSE: GATX) is an industry leader with 125+ years of success—success that is powered by our people. We are proud of our high-performance culture, hard-working and enthusiastic management team, and beautiful office space in the Willis Tower.

At GATX, we hire the best and offer our employees a dynamic, energetic, collaborative environment to enable them to make an impact from day one. Enjoy the perks and benefits of a global company with the close-knit culture and community of a much smaller one. In the same way we strive to empower our customers to propel the world forward, we are dedicated to providing our people with the tools and resources they need to advance in their careers.

The Sr. Billing Specialist is the lead member of the team that is responsible for the accurate and timely invoicing, generating over $1B annually, for multiple revenue categories, including, but not limited to, monthly rent and mileage, service events performed on GATX fleet, foreign car service events performed by Field Services, scrap sales, and freight-related invoicing. This position may invoice for any GATX entity, as well as any future companies that GATX may acquire or manage. The Senior Billing Specialist will participate in process improvement initiatives and special projects, as well as associated User Acceptance Testing; and should be able to work with little direct supervision and handle multiple job responsibilities simultaneously. 

Qualified candidates who are currently Wells Fargo Rail employees will be given priority consideration over other external applicants.

• Ensure that rent and mileage end customer invoicing processes (annual revenue in excess of $500MM), including invoice/revenue validation, PDF and electronic billing process (EDI), are performed per SOX requirements on a monthly, quarterly, and semi-annual basis.  This position will ensure that the processing of all rent and mileage invoicing occurs as scheduled.  Responsible for the maintenance and distribution of rent/mileage billing calendars for all entities.

• Work with other internal departments such as Contract Administration, Customer Service, and Fleet to resolve invoicing issues and creation of DV-related billing.  Also, will participate in IT initiatives and projects both in SAP and other systems as they relate to this position.  May involved extensive periods of testing on these projects.
• Perform repair billing role as needed to assist in the workflow of the department.  Provide support, handle escalations, and distribute work when the Billing Manager is unavailable.  Assist in representing the billing department when external customers have issues with various invoicing. 
• Assist in process development and improvement, resulting in efficiencies.  Will also provide updated documentation as necessary on the processes detailed above.  Prepare and distribute various journal entries, reconciliations, and reports on an ad-hoc basis.

• Bachelors Degree, Finance, Accounting, IT
• SAP (SD module) 2 years
• Billing experience 5 years
• Accounting experience 3 years
• Customer Contact 3 years
• Strong PC Skills (Microsoft Office suite and Adobe Acrobat)