Accounts Receivable Lead, Finance

Accounts Receivable Lead

Application Deadline: 30 November 2026

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London

Description

About the role

We're looking for an experienced Accounts Receivable Lead to own our order-to-cash process, from invoicing and cash allocation to credit risk and cash forecasting. You'll manage a team of two AR Assistants. You'll work closely with Sales, Account Management and Finance leadership, and you'll keep improving how we work as we scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Processing sales invoices
  • Using our internal platform to generate customer invoices
  • Convert multi-currency transactions at relevant rates
  • Map platform data to accounting format before uploading into Netsuite for invoice generation
  • Build and manage separate invoicing for customers with bespoke requirements
  • Creation of supporting documentation to invoices
• Onboarding new customers
  • Performing credit checks on new prospects and liaising with the Sales team
  • Arranging credit insurance
  • Scoping out requirements for any non-standard invoicing processes
• Credit control
  • Maintenance of dunning tool for automated payment reminders
  • Weekly review and analysis of AR ageing
  • Liaising with Account Managers to help chase debts
  • Collaborating with FinOps to resolve any customer queries that are blocking payment
• VAT & Duties
  • Ownership of end-to-end processing of supplier invoices for customs charges, and rebilling to customer
• Month-end
  • Revenue accruals for monthly management accounts
• Team management
  • Responsible for managing a team of two AR Assistants

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 5+ years of experience in a fast-moving Accounts Receivable team
• Prior management experience
• Good knowledge of accounting principles
• Strong Excel/Google sheets, including dealing with large datasets
• Experience of data extraction from BI tools
• Ability to deal in multiple currencies
• Excellent organisational skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Proactive attitude
• Good communication skills
• Netsuite knowledge (advantageous but not essential)