Senior Manager, Accounts Receivable and Revenue Control
Goodwin · Columbus, OH · 3 wk ago
Full-time
Responsibilities
- Manage Goodwin's full accounts receivable (AR) portfolio and collection strategy.
- Maintain a consistent cadence of calls, emails, and statements to actual decision-makers.
- Secure specific payment commitments, track them, and enforce follow-through.
- Separate undisputed balances from disputed ones and pursue collections without delay.
- Recommend credit holds, term changes, and repayment plans when accounts become problematic.
- Oversee trip-level revenue control with a complete understanding of each trip's economics, including charter charges, FET, commissions, fees, incidentals, post-trip adjustments, refunds, and credits.
- Reconcile invoices, trip records, payment activity, credit memos, and the general ledger (GL).
- Investigate short payments, duplicate deductions, and unsupported credits.
- Ensure prompt, well-documented post-trip billing so customers have the information needed to approve payment.
- Perform accurate and timely cash application for ACH, wire, card, and platform payments.
- Resolve unapplied and unidentified cash.
- Implement controls around credit memos, offsets, write-offs, and adjustments.
- Maintain alignment between the AR subledger, trip records, bank activity, and the GL.
- Support month-end close, bad debt analysis, reserves, and audit processes.
- Produce a credible weekly receivables report covering aging, commitments, disputes, escalations, and expected collection dates.
- Develop a reliable short-term cash collection forecast.
- Track collection performance, dispute cycle time, aging migration, and unapplied cash.
- Provide actionable recommendations, not just status updates.
- Establish one trusted source of truth for receivables.
- Document collection, dispute, credit, and escalation procedures.
- Identify operational root causes behind late billing and recurring disputes.
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to automate manual collection and reconciliation work.
- Improve the use of NetSuite and surrounding systems.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience owning complex accounts receivable and revenue operations in a high-growth B2B environment.
- Personal ownership of a significant, high-volume receivables portfolio.
- A track record of partnering with customers and internal teams to resolve complex billing, payment, and reconciliation challenges.
- Strong accounting fundamentals: invoicing, cash application, credit memos, reconciliation, bad debt, and GL.
- Advanced Excel skills and hands-on experience with NetSuite or a comparable ERP system.
- Ability to work with transaction-level data and identify the source of discrepancies.
- Confidence speaking directly with business owners and senior customer executives.
- Sound commercial judgment about when to push, negotiate, pull in the relationship owner, or recommend a credit hold.
- Comfort operating in environments where systems and processes are still being built.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in private aviation, freight brokerage, logistics, transportation, travel, payments, fintech, or another transaction-heavy service business.
- Experience standing up an AR or revenue control function rather than inheriting one.
- This role is better suited for an experienced commercial collections and revenue control operator than a technical accountant who has never personally owned customer collections.
Schedule
This is a hybrid role requiring in-office presence at our Columbus, OH headquarters.