Accounts Receivables Director

Accounts Receivable Director You'll be the architect of what's next in financial operations, owning client revenue through optimized collections and scaling meaningful financial outcomes for Searce. What are we looking for Real Solver? Absolutely. But not the usual kind. We're searching for the architects of the audacious & the pioneers of the possible. If you're the type to dismantle assumptions, re-engineer 'best practices,' and build solutions that make the future possible NOW, then you're speaking our language. Improver. Solver. Futurist. Great sense of humor. 'Possible. It is.' Mindset. Compassionate collaborator. Bold experimenter. Tireless iterator. Natural creativity that doesn't just challenge the norm, but solves to design what's better. Thinks in systems. Solves at scale. This Isn't for Everyone. But if you're the kind who questions why things are done a certain way-and then identifies 3 better ways to do it - we'd love to chat with you. Your Mission: The Role Solving for Better. As an Accounts Receivable Director, you'll be a Searce business leader and a 'forward deployed solver'. Your mission is to 'futurify' finance by leveraging AI and automation to conquer real-world financial challenges. This role carries direct revenue accountability, ensuring robust cash flow and strategic client financial outcomes. Your Responsibilities What you will wake up to solve. "This isn't a 'chase invoices' role. You are the founder, the architect, and the DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) for transforming our accounts receivable into a strategic revenue engine. Your mission is to partner with our visionary clients, leverage our 'solver DNA' to disrupt traditional payment processes, and genuinely futurify our financial operations to create 'real value' and ensure exceptional payment hygiene." Here's how you'll make your mark: - Own Revenue Velocity with a Founder's Mindset: - Own the cash flow. Forecast, chase, and deliver on collection numbers, ensuring maximum revenue from pending payments. - Architect and execute a client-centric AR strategy that earns trust and ensures prompt payment. - Forge deep alliances with key clients, understanding their payment ecosystems to proactively resolve issues. - Consult & Solve as the "face of our financial operations" in CXO conversations, ensuring stellar customer service that enhances client relationships. - Build Visionary Solutions that Yield Transformative Intelligence: - Lead engaging discovery workshops using first-principles thinking to understand client payment behaviors and challenges. - Apply our proprietary evlos methodology-iterate fast and fearlessly to optimize collections and scrutinize invoices. - Serve as the chief translator between client payment challenges and our most intelligent, process-driven AR solutions. - Design AI-native, cloud-forward solutions grounded in process intelligence that drive true value, ensuring all payments are received, accounted for, and properly posted. - Implement working, real outcomes that improve our Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) and client satisfaction. - Proactively investigate historical data for each debt, identifying discrepancies and driving their swift resolution with top management. - Be hands-on in the AR function, driving collections efficiently and effectively, and preparing accurate monthly forecast reports. - Lead by Example & Impact, Not Control: - Attract, hire, mentor, and grow top-tier solver talent within the accounts receivable function. - Live the "Always in Beta" mindset - build learners, not followers, constantly identifying process gaps. - Model extreme ownership, radical clarity, calm in chaos, especially when managing high-aging clients. - Believe in truth over comfort and learning over knowing, fostering continuous process enhancement. - Cultivate a team of self-managed, happier do-ers who prioritize communication and ensure proper resolution of client disputes. Welcome to Searce The 'process-first', AI-native modern tech consultancy that's rewriting the rules. We don't do traditional. As an engineering-led consultancy, we are dedicated to relentlessly improving real business outcomes. Our solvers co-innovate with clients to futurify operations and make processes smarter, faster & better. We build alongside our clients for the transformation to embed lasting competitive advantage. The result? Modern business reinvention, built on math, tech, and clarity of purpose. The DNA of a 'Searcian' Superpowers we value. The 'Happier' Core: Humble, adaptable, positive, passionate, innovative, excellence-minded, responsible. It's how we make decisions, treat each other, show up for clients & hire or promote people. Thinks like a founder. Acts like an owner. Functional Skills: - Strategic Collections & Revenue Optimization: Ability to proactively identify and unlock revenue potential from outstanding accounts. - Insightful Financial Analysis & Problem Solving: A great listener who asks appropriate questions to get to the heart of financial discrepancies and payment obstacles. - Articulate Financial Communication: Persuasive communication that distills complex financial data and collection strategies into clear, compelling narratives for both internal (CxO-level) and external clients. - Negotiation & Influence: Skillfully steering clients and internal teams towards awesome, mutually beneficial financial resolutions-the ultimate win-win facilitator. - Cross-Functional Catalyst: Thrives in cross-functional teams (Sales, Legal, Customer Service, Finance) to achieve common cash flow and revenue goals. - Fluent in Financial Change & Automation: Comfortable leading change management in AR processes, particularly involving the adoption of AI and automation. - Outcome-Driven Financial Impact: Thinks in cash flow use-cases, not just reports. Maps new financial technologies to immediate enterprise financial impact. Tech Superpowers: - AI-Native Financial Fluency: Understands how to leverage AI and automation for predictive collections and turning models into tangible cash flow outcomes. - Modern Finance Tech DNA: Deep understanding of applied AI, RPA, and data intelligence in revenue cycle management and collections. - Business-Centric Tech Vision: Connects technology and automation to clear financial results, transforming traditional AR processes into future-ready solutions. - Product-Mindset for Financial Scale: Designs AR and collections processes for enterprise-wide scalability. - Impact-Engineer of Financial Futures: Reimagines and engineers new financial tech to redefine immediate cash flow value. Experience & Relevance - Financial Transformation Pedigree: 15+ years of experience in modern finance operations, specifically focusing on Accounts Receivable, Collections, and Cash Flow Optimization (leveraging automation/AI with a process-first mindset). - Commercial & Revenue Impact Leadership: Proven track record of significantly improving cash flow, reducing DSO, and demonstrating direct impact on net-new revenue realization. - Client & Stakeholder-Facing Financial Acumen: 8+ years in a client-facing or direct stakeholder engagement role (e.g., negotiating payment terms, resolving complex disputes), acting as a trusted financial advisor. - Locally Tuned Financial Ecosystem Knowledge: Knows the financial terrain-payment challenges, relevant regulatory environments, and effective collection strategies within the local and global business context. Bonus Points (you'll thrive if you have): - Designed or scaled a modern AR organization from scratch (setting global policies, implementing new systems/ERPs). - Led the implementation of significant AI or RPA-driven automation in core AR processes (dunning, cash forecasting). - Experience in an AR leadership role within a high-growth, privately held, or bootstrapped tech company. - A recognized expert (speaker/publisher) who optimizes cash flow, reduces DSO, and enhances customer payment experiences at scale. - Combines a strategic vision for the entire order-to-cash cycle with a hands-on operational heart and ownership gut. Join the 'Real Solvers' Ready to Futurify? If you are excited by the possibilities of what an AI-native engineering-led, modern tech consultancy can do to futurify businesses, apply here and experience the 'Art of the possible'. Don't Just Send a Resume. Send a Statement.