Lead Accounts Receivable Disputes Associate

This role focuses on leading accounts receivable dispute resolution activities, improving cash recovery, and driving process improvements within finance operations. It involves team leadership, quality checks, complex escalations, and KPI management.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a team of disputes professionals; manage workload distribution, capacity planning, coaching, and performance feedback to achieve operational targets
  2. Establish and run quality checks ensure control compliance and audit readiness
  3. Resolve complex and sensitive escalations; make recommendations that balance customer outcomes with financial and policy compliance
  4. Own service level agreements and operational KPIs to analyze variances and execute corrective actions
  5. Drive standardization, best practices, and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce dispute inflow, improve recoveries, and shorten resolution times

Skills

Required

  • accounts receivable
  • dispute management
  • deduction management
  • financial analysis
  • enterprise resource planning system (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • finance processes
  • controls
  • policies
  • leading teams
  • coaching
  • managing team performance
  • QA
  • workload balancing
  • development planning

Nice to have

  • investigating customer deductions
  • short payments
  • pricing discrepancies
  • shipping errors
  • compiling documentation
  • credit approval
  • deduction denial
  • working with cross-functional teams
  • identifying dispute trends
  • root cause analysis
  • process improvement initiatives
  • order-to-cash operations

What the JD emphasized

  • accounts receivable
  • dispute management
  • deduction management