Accounts Receivable Manager
Posted 6 days ago by Widen the Net Limited
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Accounts Receivable Manager will oversee the credit and collections processes for a global high-tech company, managing a small team and refining policies to support sales growth. This role involves partnering with finance and sales leadership to negotiate payment options and implement best practices in accounts receivable operations. The position is primarily on-site in Farringdon, London, with some flexibility for remote work. The contract is initially for 6 months, with the possibility of extension.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a small team focused on credit, collections, and invoicing processes.
- Refine credit, collections, and reserve policies to support global sales growth.
- Partner with finance and sales leadership for customer credit escalations and negotiate alternative payment options.
- Implement AR best practices and policies including customer invoicing, receipts processing, collections, and KPI reporting.
- Support the monthly and quarterly financial close by providing timely and accurate AR-related results.
Key Skills:
- At least 5 years experience in account receivable/billing operations.
- Team leadership/billing operation management experience preferred.
- Experience managing third-party shared service providers.
- Global billing experience preferred.
- Customer (B2B) focused mindset with strong relationship-building skills.
- Analytics skills and data-driven approach.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Accounts Receivable Manager / Accounts Receivable Lead / Accounts Receivable Credits Manager / Billing Manager / Billing Operations Manager / Billing collections Manager
Our client is a global leading high tech company:
- Over 6,500 employees across 20+ offices;
- Fast growing;
- Cutting edge AR and VR technologies, 3D printing, etc.
They are looking for a manager to manage their account receivable and billing operations:
Global Credit and Collections:
- Manage a small team of 4 focused on credit, collections and invoicing processes
- Refine credit, collections and reserve policies to support global sales growth
- Partner with finance and sales leadership for customer credit escalations and designing creative strategies to negotiate alternative payment options while minimizing loss
- Implement AR best practices and policies including customer invoicing, receipts processing, collections, global AR analytics and KPI reporting, period-end closing, and reporting
- Support the monthly and quarterly financial close by providing timely and accurate AR- related results
Experience and Requirements:
- At least 5 years experience in account receivable/billing operations;
- Team leadership/billing operation management experience preferred;
- Experience managing third-party shared service providers and establishing scalable operating models
- Global billing experience preferred;
- Customer (B2B) focused mindset, creative and experience in building strong relationships with business partners
- Analytics skills and data driven
Initially 6 months full time inside IR35 contract, possible to extend afterwards. They are open for discussion on the daily rate depending experience. 4 days on site based in Farringdon London and 1 day work from home.