Ar Manager

**Location**: Hybrid (Alsip, IL / Lombard IL / Scarborough Canada / Monterrey Mexico)

**Summary**: Responsible for the Credit and Accounts Receivable Function for the North America Region (includes Custom Culinary, Terova, Nourish Ventures). Strategic and continuous improvement mindset required to ensure best in class Accounts Receivable department. This includes all the AR processes, financial reporting, and development of team members for the AR area.

Assist in achieving Working Capital objectives of the AR function. Work with Finance leaders to determine AR strategy.

**Essential Duties & Responsibilities**:
Strategic Management
- Leader/Owner of Accounts Receivable for North American Region. Works with unit leaders to improve and support the businesses.
- Work with Commercial and Finance Teams to improve Accounts Receivable results. This includes being proactive with improvement recommendations, completing analytics on business opportunities, and gaining agreement from team members.
- Ability to bring best practices and necessary changes. Identify and resolve problems and inconsistencies. Suggest and implement appropriate corrective procedures.

Continuous Improvement
- Investigate, recommend, and implement improved systems including but not limited to Technological, Procedural, and Talent improvements.
- Work with AR teams to ensure the most effective and efficient processes for managing credit risk and collecting outstanding receivables.

People Development
- Support the development of department employees. Continually work to improve talent, skills, and capabilities.
- Determines the right resources (people, location, systems) to improve internal controls, efficiency of staff, and consistency of processes and procedures.
- Trains, schedules, assigns, and reviews work of staff.
- Maintains harmony among workers and resolves grievances.

Basic Accounts Receivable Functions
- Daily management of Accounts Receivable team in the following areas:

- Coordinate our collection efforts with Sales for maximum return.
- Supervise the investigation/determination of credit risk and the collection of accounts receivable.
- Select and monitor activities of 3rd party collection services.
- Analyzes major accounts and prepares monthly reconciliation of subsidiary accounts to general ledger.
- Maintains record keeping systems, forms, policies, and procedures related to AR activities.
- Communicates and coordinates accounting policies, practices, and procedures with department and company managers and officials, reporting agencies, clients, customers, and the public.
- Develop, recommend, evaluate and update policies and procedures that govern the credit/collection and accounts receivable activities of the company.
- Prepare and present reports on the credit and collection status of our customers.
- Participate in credit groups and bankruptcy actions.
- Reciprocate in providing credit information to national credit reporting services as well as utilizing the service for monitoring our customer risk.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree (BA or BS) in Accounting or Finance from a four-year college or university.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience and at least 3 years of managerial experience in credit and collections.
- Manages credit and collection activities such as following up with past due accounts, credit risk monitoring, new customer set up, regular customer credit evaluations and keeps track of cash receipts.
- Successfully leads AR Team and oversees the credit management activities.
- Demonstrated experience in process improvement.
- Demonstration of strong work ethic, effective communication, and relationship building.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, Excel, and Word. Microsoft Dynamics a plus.
- Travel 10%.

EEO AA M/F/Vet/Disability