Senior Manager, Accounts Receivable, Credit & Collections

Anthropic Anthropic · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Finance

This role is for a Senior Manager of Accounts Receivable, Credit & Collections for the Americas region at Anthropic. The primary focus is on managing the end-to-end credit and collections lifecycle, with a strong emphasis on automation and leveraging AI/LLM solutions to improve efficiency and scale cash collection. The role involves strategic direction, team leadership, and partnering with various internal teams and external customers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Set the strategic direction for Americas credit and collections, including portfolio management, aging reviews, and cash forecasting for the region.
  2. Own the Americas collections automation roadmap, including segmentation strategy, dunning workflows, self-service payment experiences, and automated dispute routing.
  3. Drive adoption of AI across the credit and collections workflow, including intelligent prioritization of collector outreach, AI-drafted customer correspondence, predictive risk scoring, and automated reconciliation of customer responses.
  4. Lead, coach, and develop a team of credit and collections professionals, including people managers, setting clear KPIs around DSO, aging, collection effectiveness, and automation coverage.
  5. Own credit risk strategy for new and existing Americas customers, including credit policy, credit limit frameworks, payment term guidelines, and data-driven escalation of higher-risk accounts.

Skills

Required

  • Experience leading credit and collections teams in a high-growth or enterprise SaaS environment, including managing other managers.
  • Demonstrated experience driving automation across credit and collections workflows, with measurable improvements to efficiency, coverage, or DSO.
  • Strong working knowledge of commercial credit risk assessment, including use of credit reporting tools (e.g., D&B, Experian) and financial statement analysis.
  • Hands-on experience with ERP and AR systems (e.g., NetSuite, Oracle, SAP) and AR automation platforms (e.g., Tesorio, HighRadius, Billtrust), including shaping workflow and integration design rather than just using them.
  • Proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets for portfolio analysis, reporting, and ad hoc modeling.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to navigate sensitive customer and executive-level internal conversations diplomatically.

Nice to have

  • 10+ years of progressive experience in accounts receivable, credit, or collections, including significant time leading teams and managing people managers.
  • Hands-on experience deploying AI or LLM-based solutions in a finance or AR context, whether through vendor tooling, custom workflows, or agentic systems.
  • Experience supporting a company through rapid scaling, including process build-out, systems implementation, and org design.
  • Familiarity with enterprise contract structures, including multi-year deals, usage-based billing, and non-standard payment terms.
  • Exposure to global AR operations and cross-regional coordination.
  • Experience partnering with Sales and Deal Des

What the JD emphasized

  • scaling credit and collections functions through automation and AI
  • automation embedded by default
  • deploying AI or LLM-based solutions in a finance or AR context