Accounts Receivable Lead

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced Accounts Receivable Lead to own our order-to-cash process, from invoicing and cash allocation to credit risk and cash forecasting. You’ll manage a team of two AR Assistants. You’ll work closely with Sales, Account Management and Finance leadership, and you’ll keep improving how we work as we scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Processing sales invoices

• Using our internal platform to generate customer invoices

• Convert multi-currency transactions at relevant rates

• Map platform data to accounting format before uploading into Netsuite for invoice generation

• Build and manage separate invoicing for customers with bespoke requirements

• Creation of supporting documentation to invoices

• Onboarding new customers

• Performing credit checks on new prospects and liaising with the Sales team

• Arranging credit insurance

• Scoping out requirements for any non-standard invoicing processes

• Credit control

• Maintenance of dunning tool for automated payment reminders

• Weekly review and analysis of AR ageing

• Liaising with Account Managers to help chase debts

• Collaborating with FinOps to resolve any customer queries that are blocking payment

• VAT & Duties

• Ownership of end-to-end processing of supplier invoices for customs charges, and rebilling to customer

• Month-end

• Revenue accruals for monthly management accounts

• Team management

• Responsible for managing a team of two AR Assistants

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 5+ years of experience in a fast-moving Accounts Receivable team

• Prior management experience

• Good knowledge of accounting principles

• Strong Excel/Google sheets, including dealing with large datasets

• Experience of data extraction from BI tools

• Ability to deal in multiple currencies

• Excellent organisational skills

• Strong attention to detail

• Proactive attitude

• Good communication skills

• Netsuite knowledge (advantageous but not essential)