Accounts Receivable Manager

Flexible working hours, supportive working from home environment
- Leadership position
- Join our growing global organisation

**About us**:
WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms, bringing together approximately 4,300 talented people across 14 offices in Australia. We have committed to halving the carbon footprint of our designs and advice by 2030. Our sustainable solutions and Future Ready projects will help societies grow for lifetimes to come. Globally, we have a network of 55,000+ professionals

**The Opportunity**

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an **Accounts Receivable Manager** to join our Sydney office. You will be responsible for managing an Accounts Receivable team (predominantly Sydney based) and an offshore team, driving best practices in cash collections, liaising with project managers and administrators across the region, overseeing process improvements and achievement of key KPIs such as DSO. The Accounts Receivable Manager reports to the General Manager, Finance Planning and Control and has an active role in the success of the finance department.

**What you'll do**:

- Build and lead a highly effective team to support WSP's businesses and projects
- Provide day to day leadership of the Accounts Receivable Team, including an offshore team
- Drive cash collections for the Australian businesses
- Monitoring aged debts and liaising with collections officers and business stakeholders
- Tracking DSO, targeting risk areas and assisting project managers to achieve KPIs
- Debt and invoice reporting to the finance leaders and business group managers partnering and support
- Supporting the collections team to maximise cash inflows and resolution of queries and payments
- Monitoring collections, and AR reports and collection trends
- Maintaining debtor management policies to assist the business
- Setting and monitoring collections targets for the AR officers
- Strategies to maximise cash collections and provide training where required
- Resolution of issues with unidentified payments and overpayments
- Following up queries with AR team, clients and internal project management teams
- Manage new client setup procedures in the ERP system
- Maintenance of process documentation for compliance

**What we'll love about you**:

- 7+ years' experience in high volume transactional environments, industry experience in engineering consultancy preferred
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to build and lead an effective team
- Establishes and maintains relationships (internal and external). Customer service focus to business partnering
- Highly organised and good time management skills, able to meet unexpected workflow demands and strict deadlines
- Excellent understanding of accounts receivable functions
- Excellent excel skills
- Excellent systems knowledge in AR including large ERPs (SAP, Oracle, Unit4 an advantage), MS Office and KPI reporting.

**What you'll love about us**

At WSP we provide a diverse and inclusive work environment and offer many personal and professional development opportunities that are aimed to help you deliver your best self to the role whilst managing your personal life in balance. We have been recognised for the second consecutive year as a Great Place to Work with year-on-year increases in employee engagement.

Some of the many benefits we offer our employees include:

- Flexible working hours and working from home
- Global mobility
- Parental leave & purchased additional annual leave
- Corporate employee discounts and offers
- Salary continuance insurance
- Wellness at work & social club
- Workplace giving /volunteering
- Employee reward & recognition program
- Professional and technical development opportunities

Please note we will not be engaging the services of recruitment agencies for this role.

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