Manager, Accounts Receivable

KeHE Distributors, LLC•Elkton, FL

8d•Onsite

About The Position

At KeHE, we’re obsessed with creating solutions, unboxing potential, and serving others – and it all starts with you. As an employee-owned distributor of natural and organic, specialty, and fresh products, we’re committed to making a positive impact and scaling our success together. With a culture that fosters development and opportunity, you’ll be embarking on a career that’s moving forward. When you join KeHE, you’re becoming part of a team that is a force for good.

Requirements

Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and written to all levels of management.
Ability to manage and lead a team.
Ability to manage a wide array of tasks simultaneously with minimal direction.
Ability to exhibit professional objectivity and maintain the highest level of integrity.
Strong relationship management skills and ability to provide guidance to higher management levels internally and externally.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with the ability to analyze, report, and communicate findings and solutions.
Ability to get along with diverse personalities, tactful, mature and flexible.
Advanced level of proficiency in MS Excel including lookups and pivot tables.
Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or other related business field required.
At least 5 years of experience in accounts receivable/accounts payable.
At least 2 years in a supervisory or lead role.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of PowerBI or another relational database a plus.

Responsibilities

Leading a team of account receivable analysts in reconciling accounts and resolving discrepancies.
Ensuring the team performs frequent review of customer payment histories, secures payments from customers, maintains AR agings, and takes appropriate follow-up actions.
Verifying compliance with established policies, procedures, and internal controls.
Serving as the primary contact to coordinate and resolve escalated issues.
Providing performance metrics and facilitating process improvement initiatives.
Promoting, developing and enriching key stakeholder relationships, streamlining departmental processes, measuring team productivity, and monitoring and strengthening internal controls.
Ensuring departmental workflow efficiencies and adherence to internal controls, policies and procedures.
Providing continuous feedback to management, while making recommendations for corrective action and process improvement opportunities.
Proactively reviewing accounts with Analysts for payment status and ensuring follow-up on individual accounts with delinquency issues.
Monitoring, resolving, or escalating payment deduction issues.
Coordinating escalated deduction issues with the AR Director, Sales Management, Finance, General Council, and third-party collections services as necessary.
Overseeing the onboarding process of all new chain accounts and establishing the financial relationship including the collection and electronic deduction management process with new customers to ensure on time payments and efficient deduction workflow.
Leading monthly calls with Sales Account Management leadership and gaining the support needed to resolve collection issues.
Collaborating with other department managers to ensure general ledgers within the area are reconciled monthly, quarterly and annually.
Assisting in the development, implementation and communication of departmental operating policies, procedures and internal controls.
Composing month-end financial reports and conducting calls with Sr. Management to discuss results.
Overseeing the customer post audit research and resolution process for all chain accounts.
Interacting with internal and external auditors to provide information in support of A/R audit projects.
Ensuring strict confidentiality of financial records and safeguarding confidential company information.
Directly participating in the recruitment, interviewing and hiring of new employees for both vacant and new positions within the department.
Managing and leading a team of analysts.