Director, Accounts Receivable

The Director of Accounts Receivables will lead Invoicing, Accounts Receivable, Cash Applications and Collections management for all Shift4 portfolios.  The ideal candidate will evaluate the business requirements and create the optimal team to effectively execute these components of the order to cash process.   The overall process will be reviewed for automation and control opportunities to ensure the team’s operating efficiency, increase cash flow and improve the customer experience.  The Director will be responsible for integrating all current & future acquisitions into a consolidated process. The Director's background will be multi-faceted, with the skillset to support accounting initiatives as required.

Essential Duties:

• Oversee all aspects of Invoicing, AR, Cash Applications and Collections processes.
• Support efforts for the Collections “Surge” initiative currently underway, to quickly mobilize resources, collect aged balances and identify root cause issues to drive organizational & process change.
• Lead the team through all aspects of month end close process.
• Optimize and enhance workflow to ensure procedures are performed accurately and timely with established SLA’s.
• Centralize disparate processes with standardized operating policies & procedures.
• Evaluate resource structure and establish clear roles & responsibilities by function, with appropriate segregation of duties.
• Build a skilled internal collections team with clearly defined SOPs.
• Implement 3rd party collections and write-off policies.
• Liaison with the Business Development team to create awareness & partner in the collection of outstanding balances for Enterprise accounts.
• Establish reporting with KPIs to measure and track performance.
• Provide weekly updates and monthly Executive reporting to communicate progress.
• Build effective working relationships with senior stakeholders across the company.
• Support M&A efforts and integration of invoicing, cash app & collections functions.
• Provide Accounting support as needed.

The Ideal Candidate will possess:

• Preferred 7 years + experience with Order to Cash experience in a payments-related company.
• Extensive experience in finance and accounting.
• Experience using and configuring Oracle for Accounts Receivable and Collection activities.
• Additional experience using other AR systems such as NetSuite, Sage, QuickBooks is highly desired.
• Ability to prioritize work and manage projects simultaneously, in addition to monthly/quarterly workload.
• Finance, accounting, economics or similar degree; CPA, MBA or CFA a plus.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent leadership qualities, including getting work done through others, being organizationally savvy, thought leadership and influencing skills.
• Public-company experience a plus.