Manager, Accounts Receivable and Collections

Peraton has an opening for a Manager of the Accounts Receivable and Collections team with responsibilities as follows:

Manage Customer Accounts Receivable Collections - monitor customer invoices to ensure collection within payment terms
• Work with internal stakeholders and customers to document invoice payment status and escalate if invoices will not be paid by the due date
• Manage staff and workload of 10 team members
• Assist staff and stakeholders in resolving questions associated with open invoices
• Monitor unapplied customer payments and ensure application against paid invoices
• Ensure internal/external audit and SOX compliance
• Executive level reporting and analysis to maximize cashflow
• Understanding of Billed and Unbilled, Accounting Reserves and Bad Debt write-offs
• Balance sheet analysis for Billed and Unbilled AR accounts
• DSO understanding including report out and how to improve DSO
• Oversee customer payments by bank account and redirect customer payments to new bank accts
• Understanding of Bank interface with corporate systems including ACH and check payments
• Interpret bank statements and understand adjustments, credits, interest payment, discounts, EDI detail
• Creative in streamlining and implementing AR process improvements
• Daily interaction with staff that works remotely ensuring all daily deliverables are completed
• Enhance metrics reporting for internal stakeholders pertaining to collections, past due receivables, cashflow, cash application
• Establish and maintain detailed desktop procedures of AR processes
• Support month and year end close activities pertaining to Billed and Unbilled AR
• Work with Accounts Payable team in processing credits and refunds
• Work with Treasury team in support of AR reporting and corporate activities
• Work with Tax team on inquiries and resolution
• Journal Entry processing
• Work independently with limited supervision to manage the team and daily deliverables
• Annual performance reviews given to team members
• Continued training to ensure knowledge and skill set growth
• Special projects as assigned

• Bachelor's Degree with a concentration in Finance/Accounting/Business
• 10 plus years of applicable experience with 5 years of management experience with a staff of 10+
• Government customer contracts experience
• Accounts Receivable Collections and Cash Application experience
• Management and Executive reporting experience
• Deltek Costpoint working experience
• Customer Invoice Portal experience to research invoice payment status (WAWF, IPP, GSA, etc.)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to work with all levels of executive leadership
• Strong working knowledge of Excel, Word, Powerpoint
• Knowledge of COGNOS reporting system
• US Citizenship is required

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.