
General Accounting Associate
Madison, WI · HybridFull-timeSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The General Accounting Associate supports billing accuracy, invoicing validation, lien activity, past-due receivables, and accounting project work. The role collaborates with project finance, external customers, and internal partners, and helps improve operational processes. nVent seeks an associate degree or equivalent work experience, 5+ years in an accounting-related role, attention to detail, accuracy, software proficiency, communication skills, flexibility, and work autonomy.
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Hybrid
Madison, WI, US
Full time
R24145
We’re looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success – and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.
WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS POSITION:
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Ensure billing timeliness and accuracy
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Validate invoicing in 3rd party systems are accurately recorded
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Engagement with project finance to facilitate lien activity, lien releases
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Handling customer correspondence required to enable payment (bills of landing, project management verifications, etc)
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Completing and updating information in project summary files to assess past dues
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Working with external customers on past due receivables
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Accounting project work researching and reviewing data with internal partners
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Support efforts among internal groups on Percentage of Completion file processes
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Collaborate with internal teams to identify and successfully implement operational improvements
YOU HAVE:
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Associate degree or equivalent work experience, with 5+ years in an accounting, accounts receivable or other accounting role
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Excellent attention to detail and ability to work with a high degree of accuracy.
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Proficient in using software and tools, such as ERP systems (Epicor preferred) and Excel.
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Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
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Driven to deliver outcomes, with high flexibility and work autonomy.
WE HAVE:
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A dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world that will stretch your abilities, provide plentiful career opportunities, and allow you to make an impact every day
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nVent is a leading global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions. We believe our inventive electrical solutions enable safer systems and ensure a more secure world. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the world's most sensitive equipment, buildings and critical processes. We offer a comprehensive range of systems protection and electrical connections solutions across industry-leading brands that are recognized globally for quality, reliability and innovation.
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Our principal office is in London and our management office in the United States is in Minneapolis. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, SCHROFF and TRACHTE. Learn more at www.nvent.com .
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Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work
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We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide
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Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money
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Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We’re known for being:
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Innovative & adaptable
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Dedicated to absolute integrity
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Focused on the customer first
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Respectful and team oriented
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Optimistic and energizing
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Accountable for performance
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Benefits to support the lives of our employees
Benefit Overview
At nVent, we value our people and their health and well-being. We provide a broad benefits package with meaningful programs for eligible full-time employees that includes:
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Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.
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A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan — both include a company match.
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Other supplemental benefits may include tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection.
At nVent, we connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. People are our most valuable asset. Inclusion and diversity means that we celebrate and encourage each other’s authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth.
At nVent, we are committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by national, federal, state or local law.
How this job compares
Set against the 752 open Accounts Receivable jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$69–98K/yr190 salary ranges
- US median$21–26/hr185 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 29 open Accounts Receivable jobs in Wisconsin and 752 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Wisconsin
- Robert Half Accountemps3 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience — more than three in four Accounts Receivable postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 515 postings).
- Education
- 65 of the 752 open Accounts Receivable jobs (9%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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