Accounts Receivable and Collection Manager
Company: Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our mission is to create AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society as a whole. Our team is a growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About the role:
We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive Accounts Receivable and Collections Manager to join our dynamic Revenue Accounting team. In this critical role, you will create and execute effective, streamlined credit and collections policies, enhance efficiency in daily operations and month-end close, evolve reporting and metrics to drive insights, and lead project-based initiatives to enable business scale.
Responsibilities:
- Spearhead daily AR operations, including streamlining payment applications, managing billing inquiries, and executing strategic collection outreach.
- Develop and implement robust metrics to track and report key AR and collections KPIs to internal stakeholders.
- Create and implement a credit check process for new customer applications.
- Establish collection strategy and dunning process, including appropriate reminders, collections, and deactivations.
- Manage AR-related month-end close procedures, including:
- Comprehensive cash and AR reconciliations.
- In-depth AR aging analysis.
- Thorough bad debt assessments and write-off recommendations.
- Lead evaluation of AR system needs, orchestrate RFP processes, and oversee implementations.
- Pioneer process improvements and automation initiatives to maximize operational efficiency.
- Establish strong cross-functional relationships with Sales, Legal, Finance, and other key stakeholders as a strategic business partner.
- Serve as key liaison during financial audits, ensuring compliance and effective control in the AR and Collection area.
You may be a good fit if you:
- Hold a Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- Have a minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in AR, Collections, and related accounting practices, ideally in a high-growth tech company.
- Have 3+ years of management and leadership experience.
- Have a deep understanding of AR-related accounting principles, GAAP standards, and financial operations best practices.
- Have exceptional attention to detail with the ability to analyze complex datasets.
- Have outstanding communication skills; proven track record of engaging stakeholders and clients effectively.
- Have strong organizational and time-management abilities.
- Have proficiency in Excel; experience with NetSuite, Salesforce, and Stripe.
Strong candidates may also:
- Have comfort with ambiguity and minimal supervision.
- Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills; high curiosity and ability to dive deep.
- Have knowledge of change implementation and impact prediction.
- Be willing to roll up sleeves and get hands-on.
The expected salary range for this position is: Annual Salary: $175,000—$175,000 USD
Logistics
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
Compensation and Benefits:
Anthropic's compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits. We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates.
US Benefits: The following benefits are for our US-based employees:
- Optional equity donation matching.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching.
- 22 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
- Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness.
- Fertility benefits via Carrot.
- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.
UK Benefits: The following benefits are for our UK-based employees:
- Optional equity donation matching.
- Private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
- Pension contribution (matching 4% of your salary).
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
- Health cash plan.
- Life insurance and income protection.
- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
How we're different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
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