Accounts Receivable Manager

Accounts Receivable Manager

The Accounts Receivable Manager will play a key role in the Finance Department and help drive process improvements within the Accounts Receivable and OTC (Order to Cash) team.

The AR Manager's primary role will be to own and oversee the day-to-day operations of the Accounts Receivable team.

The Accounts Receivables Manager's areas of responsibilities will include (but not be limited to):

• Cash Application: Oversee and own the daily cash application process.
• Cash Collections: Partner with the Accounting/Billing teams to ensure client accounts contain accurate invoices. Drive process improvements to the collections process and provide reporting to client teams and leadership to help improve visibility to any delinquent accounts. Ensure credit insurance program is being adhered to in an effort to reduce overall financial risk. This can include but not be limited to monitoring client credit limits, payment history, ensuring standard escalation processes are adhered to, facilitate proper client setup in all existing platforms, etc
• Month End Close: Ensuring internal deadlines are met, driving internal controls, ensuring accurate client aging balances are being reported, maintaining the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts calculations, reviewing and approving balance sheet reconciliations, monitoring bad debt expenses, monthly reporting, etc.
• Accounting Operations Support: Facilitate communication and standardization between accounting operations and client teams, and within and across other areas within the company.
• Staff Development: Supervise and direct Accounts Receivable team while balancing individual contributions and goals. Help identify goals to facilitate growth of the staff.
• Client Team Support: Coordinate with direct manager to provide excellent customer service to client teams. Strive to improve efficiency and visibility amongst stakeholders. Design and implement reporting that is useful to improve client profitability.
• ERP Platform: Play SME role for the Accounts Receivable and Credit and Collections modules and help to drive improvements and leverage efficiencies from the system
• Other Ad hoc Projects and Requests

The Accounts Receivable Manager will need to balance these activities and responsibilities while improving processes, challenging the status quo, and finding ways to improve cash flow, collections and financial reporting accuracy. A successful candidate will be focused on team goals, process improvement and improving the workflow model.

Qualifications

• 
  B.S. in Accounting or Finance
• 7+ years experience in the Accounting/Finance field, with 3+ years as a supervisor/manager
• Month end close experience
• Excellent change management skills
• Experience with process improvement and improving process workflows
• Strong, effective written and oral communications skills
• Experience with complex, integrated accounting systems
• Ability to resolve complex operational and accounting issues
• Highly motivated, self-starter
• Ability to lead and develop staff members
• Strong system platform skills (ex: MS Office, ERP systems, etc)
• Must be able to thrive in a fast-paced work environment