Accounts Receivable Manager

Full Time
5 months ago

Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.

About the role: 

Liftoff is seeking an Accounts Receivable Manager that will own the development of a world-class receivables operation. This new leader will work cross-functionally with our Corporate Accounting, Commercial Finance, Deal Desk, Sales, and Customer Success teams to ensure the timely and accurate billing of customers, collections, and reconciliations.  Your vision, strategy, and process improvement skills will ensure we can provide a great customer and billing experience, while supporting Go-To-Market and Revenue initiatives.

The Accounts Receivable Manager will be part of the Accounting Organization and report directly to the Director of Financial Operations. It’s an incredibly exciting time for our team, as Liftoff continues to tackle new challenges in a fast-paced, growing environment. Come join us and help grow our financial operations team!

Location: 

This role is eligible for remote-first work in the Pacific & Mountain time zone.

  • US office locations: Redwood City (HQ), San Francisco, Los Angeles, Remote California. 

How you will make a difference:

  • Supervise and lead an AR team, provide guidance on goal setting, performance evaluations, and training programs.
  • Review new onboarded customers and be a point of escalation for custom contracts.
  • Monitor and facilitate Salesforce & Netsuite data hygiene best practices.
  • Manage and monitor account receivable activities, including billing and collections.
  • Review and approve customer invoices and credit memos, and ensure they are accurate and delivered in a timely manner.
  • Oversee our Credit Check & Collections Policy, including assessing the credit risk of new customers.
  • Manage our AR forecast and work cross-functionally with our Sales, Treasury, and FP&A leaders to provide reporting on open invoices to meet collection targets. 
  • Develop and implement strategies for reducing days sales outstanding (DSO) and improving cash flow.
  • Communicate with customers and resolve any disputes or issues related to billing and collections.
  • Work closely with the finance team to prepare financial reports and analysis on AR.
  • Ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and policies related to AR and revenue recognition standards.
  • Identify process improvements, develop effective internal controls, and implement best practices to enhance departmental efficiency and effectiveness.

Who you are:

  • 5+ years of experience in hiring and developing great teams in AR, financial operations, or a similar discipline.
  • 5+ years of progressive responsibilities in the tech industry.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
  • Intermediate or advanced Excel skills required (Pivot Tables, Index Match, Sum If, etc.).
  • Experience with Netsuite, Salesforce, Tesorio, Looker, Tableau, or other leading AR/GTM platforms is a plus.
  • Must be able to thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment including ability to remain flexible, proactive, resourceful, and efficient while interacting with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Experience in solving multiple and complex challenges through critical thinking and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Strong quantitative and analytical skills.
  • Extremely organized with good project management skills.
  • Comfortable with creating new processes from scratch.
  • Strong attention to detail, deadline driven, with strong organizational skills, and understands big picture concepts.
  • Senior presence with thoughtful, articulate communication style adaptable to the audience.
  • Knowledge of accounting principles and practices.

 

Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on candidate location and experience. The following are our base salary ranges for this role: 

  • SF Bay Area, New York City, Los Angeles, Orange County: $ 115K-130K
  • Seattle/Olympia, Austin, Boston, San Diego, Santa Barbara: $105K-120K
  • All other cities in our approved to hire states: $95K-110K

NOTE: For this role, we are only considering candidates based in Pacific & Mountain time zone at this time.

 

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Liftoff is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. Liftoff is further committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender (including sexual harassment, gender harassment, and harassment due to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender nonconformity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, ancestry (including association, affiliation, or participation with persons or activities related to national origin, English-proficiency or accent, or immigration status), physical or mental disability, medical condition(s), genetic information of an individual or family member of the individual, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status, family care status, requesting or taking pregnancy, parental or disability leave, requesting an accommodation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance. All such discrimination and harassment is unlawful and will not be tolerated. Liftoff maintains a continued commitment to equal employment opportunity and expects the full cooperation of all personnel.

 

Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:

Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.