Accounts Receivable Manager

Type: Direct Hire

Salary range Pay: 75k - 80k
Location: Long Beach, CA 

Summary:
The Accounts Receivable Manager is responsible for leading and managing the accounts receivable function, ensuring timely and accurate collections, and maintaining a professional and positive experience for internal teams and external customers and clients. This role drives end-to-end process improvement across the full AR cycle, builds collaborative relationships with clients and internal stakeholders, and delivers reporting and forecasting that supports informed financial decision-making. The incumbent is expected to lead with accountability, operate as a cross-functional partner, and develop the AR team to operate at full capacity independently.

Responsibilities:
• Lead and manage the accounts receivable department and processes ensuring efficiency in cash application speed and accuracy.
• Identify, develop, and drive process improvements across the full accounts receivable cycle, from initial point of entry through collection recording, including automating workflows, reducing manual reconciliation, and improving cash application speed and accuracy.
• Build and maintain relationships with clients to understand their payment processes, collaborating to address barriers and drive timely payment collections.
• Collaborate with internal teams, including sales and operations, to resolve disputes and support collection efforts.
• Escalate unresolved or high-risk accounts through appropriate channels in a timely manner, ensuring visibility and resolution with the support of relevant internal stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain a weekly cash forecast for assigned companies, ensuring accuracy and providing leadership with the visibility needed to support informed financial decision-making.
• Partner with leadership and cross-functional teams to deliver regular, meaningful reporting on accounts receivable status, translating data into actionable insights that drive collections performance and operational decisions.
• Stay updated on financial concepts and regulations related to accounts receivable
• Lead, develop, and mentor the AR team member through clear performance expectations, ongoing coaching and feedback, and support for professional growth, building individual capability and long-term succession readiness.
• Ensure the AR team member is fully cross-trained across all departmental functions, maintaining the knowledge and confidence to independently manage operations in the Manager's absence.
 

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disabled / Protected Veterans

The Know Your Rights poster is available here:
https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf

The pay transparency policy is available here:
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf

For temporary assignments lasting 13 weeks or longer, AppleOne is pleased to offer major medical, dental, vision, 401k and any statutory sick pay where required.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact your staffing representative who will reach out to our HR team.

AppleOne participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program.
https://e-verify.uscis.gov/web/media/resourcesContents/E-Verify_Participation_Poster_ES.pdf

We also consider for employment qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements, including, if applicable, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. Pursuant to applicable state and municipal Fair Chance Laws and Ordinances, we will consider for employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, including, if applicable, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. For Los Angeles, CA applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.