Skills
Billing Clerk Skills & Tools
The technical skills, people skills and tools employers look for in billing clerks, and how to build and show them.
What skills do billing clerks need?
Billing Clerks need technical skills such as invoicing, payment posting, and account reconciliation, plus people skills like accuracy and organization. They also use tools such as QuickBooks and ERP systems.
Technical (hard) skills
- Invoicing
- Payment posting
- Account reconciliation
- Accounting software
- Excel
- Data entry
People (soft) skills
- Accuracy
- Organization
- Customer service
- Reliability
Tools, equipment and technology
- QuickBooks
- ERP systems
- Excel
- Billing software
- Payment portals
- CRM
Skills in action: common tasks
These step-by-step guides show how billing clerks put their skills to work:
- How to post customer payments accurately
- How to fix an invoice error
- How to read an accounts receivable aging report
How to show these skills on a resume
- Lead your skills section with the technical skills from the job posting, for example, “Invoicing” and “Payment posting.”
- Prove soft skills with results: instead of listing “accuracy,” describe a situation where you used it.
- List credentials such as Certified Billing and Coding Specialist near the top, with the issuing organization and date.
- Use the employer’s vocabulary. Our billing clerk glossary covers the terms hiring managers expect.
How to build these skills
Formal training, supervised practice and certification are the most direct routes. Our Billing Clerk training introduces each of these skills with plain-language lessons, procedures and a final knowledge check: a strong foundation before hands-on training or your first day.