Overview
This role is responsible for managing receivables operations for strategic accounts with complex billing structures. The position focuses on ensuring timely collection of outstanding accounts receivable, maintaining a healthy aging portfolio, fostering strong customer relationships, and optimizing cash flow.
Responsibilities
- Manage an accounts receivable portfolio and related processes for large, strategic customers with complex account structures and billing terms.
- Collaborate with clients to obtain promises to pay, resolve payment discrepancies and delinquencies, and establish mutually beneficial arrangements.
- Develop and deploy strategies to optimize collections processes, reduce outstanding balances, decrease portfolio Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), and increase customer adherence to contractual payment terms.
- Conduct complex monthly audits and account reconciliations for multiple off-cycle, non-standard billing customers to ensure accuracy in receivables records and prevent embedded receivables.
- Identify trends, anomalies, and potential risks within the accounts receivable portfolio.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls and regulatory standards.
- Monitor billing processes and address any issues or discrepancies to facilitate prompt payments.
- Provide regular updates to leadership and internal stakeholders on collections status and client interactions.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key strategic customers to facilitate prompt payments, proactively resolve issues, address inquiries, and ensure overall customer satisfaction.
- Collaborate with sales and account management teams to align collections efforts with broader business strategies.
- Share insights on client payment behaviors and potential risks impacting business relationships.
- Identify and implement process improvements in the collections workflow to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
- Implement best practices to streamline collections processes, reduce outstanding balances, and lower DSO.
- Work with internal stakeholders to streamline invoicing, payment, and reconciliation workflows.
- Proactively identify and pursue opportunities to integrate AI and automation technologies into operational processes to drive scale, reduce manual processes, and mitigate operational risks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum of 4 years of progressive experience in accounts receivable.
- In-depth knowledge of accounting principles, accounts receivable processes, complex billing terms, and collections strategies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex contractual agreements.
- Advanced account reconciliation and auditing skills, including experience preparing and presenting audits to internal and/or external stakeholders.
- Superior critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interact professionally with customers and internal stakeholders.
- Must successfully pass a background investigation.
Compensation & Benefits
- Base pay range: $51,500.00 - $59,800.00.
- Actual pay will vary based on qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency.
- Compensation package may include commissions for sales roles or quarterly/annual bonuses for non-sales roles, depending on applicable plans.
- Comprehensive benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance; retirement savings plan; paid time off; health savings and flexible spending accounts; life and disability insurance; tuition reimbursement; and more.
Location
Not specified.