Senior Accounts Receivable Manager

Overview

As the Senior Accounts Receivable Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the accounts receivable process for all Business Units ensuring timely resolution of invoicing and collections, managing unapplied cash, and reporting to support the financial health and performance of our organization. 

Responsibilities

• Manage Accounts Receivable Operations: Oversee the entire accounts receivable process, including employee training & development, timely resolution of disputes, unapplied cash and account reconciliations.
• Performance Monitoring and Reporting: Continuously improve the way we monitor, and report accounts receivable performance, working closely with colleagues across the organization to meet the reporting needs of individual Bus.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work with key Business Unit stakeholders to develop and implement effective accounts receivable strategies and policies.
• Process Improvement: Lead initiatives to streamline and enhance accounts receivable processes, ensuring they are flexible and responsive to ongoing changes.
• Business Analysis: Conduct transactional analysis, including external insights to inform accounts receivable strategies.
• Project Management: Manage key strategic projects within Accounting Operations related to accounts receivable (e.g., system implementations, new acquisition integrations and policy/procedure changes).

Skills / Qualifications

• Experience: Proven experience in managing accounts receivable operations at a strategic or corporate level, including performance monitoring and reporting.
• Communication Skills: Strong written and oral communication skills, with excellent attention to detail. Ability to interpret, disseminate, and present information to a variety of internal and external audiences in a way that informs and influences their decision-making.
• Performance Monitoring: Experience in establishing and developing performance monitoring tools and reports for different audiences.
• Strategic Thinking: Proven ability to think and plan strategically and achieve buy-in from senior leaders in the organization.
• Adaptability: An enthusiastic and flexible approach, able to work closely and adaptively with the immediate team and collaboratively across the entire organization.
• Stakeholder Management: Experience working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. Able to work in partnership with people at all levels, demonstrating strong skills in constructive challenge, facilitation, collaboration, networking, and influencing.
• Analytical and Organizational Skills: Strong analytical and organizational skills, including the ability to balance and independently manage a workload that includes multiple concurrent priorities. Self-motivated, able to set and deliver on deadlines.
• Location: Must be able to go into our Blue Ash office 3 days a week 

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Company Overview

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

Diversity Statement

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) 

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