Manager, Financial Operations
The successful candidate will play a key leadership role working closely with CAs critical transactional teams in the areas of the accounts receivable, billing, and AP/PO disbursements. They will drive operational and automation efficiencies, ensure billing compliance, strengthen internal control policies and procedures while minimizing manual efforts, as well as drive continued improvement as it pertains to key metrics and analytical insights to the business and our investors.
This person will coach and develop a highly skilled Accounts Receivable, Billing, and Accounts Payable Teams along with all associated functions such as Master Data, Credit & Collections, Partner on Contracts. This person will develop and implement policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls through standard work products, while ensuring efficient and effective management of Finance operations function, including process automation. They will have direct management of the AP & AR Supervisors and the Corporate Buyer.
Essential duties/responsibilities:
- Engage employees in continuous improvement mindset within all disciplines.
- Manage, review, and consistently improve Billing, AR, and AP/PO processes within our Workday Technology and related accounting processes.
- Perform and review monthly AP/AR balance sheet account reconciliations and research any variances.
- Prepare month-end journal entries.
- Provide detailed monthly balance sheet variance analysis in timely manner.
- Perform quarterly AR reserve analysis.
- Stay current and partner with IT on new technological solutions in all Finance operations functions.
- Assist with yearly & interim audit preparation.
- Assist with cash forecasting and liquidity analysis.
- Work with IT to further develop and enhance process and reporting as it relates to AP/PO processing.
- Develop and monitor appropriate dashboarding to measure and improve performance within the Financial operations model.
- Assist the Director with the development of a highly skilled and well-trained staff through training and mentoring to ensure the efficient and effective management of all A/P and A/R functions, with the ability to support a rapid-growth company.
- Responsible for driving a cohesive cross-functional approach that encourages customer service, teamwork, process ownership, innovation, accountability, and internal growth with customers, internal and external.
- Collect feedback from teams on process improvement and make recommendations based on the assigned area(s) of responsibility.
- Assist in developing and implementing strengthened policies and procedures (both systematic and user functional to ensure data integrity and safeguarding of assets), while minimizing manual effort to ensure compliance.