Senior Accounts Receivable Manager
Job Summary
The Senior Manager for Accounts Receivable will oversee financial operations, including billing, collections, and revenue recognition within an SAP S/4HANA environment. This role requires extensive experience in financial reporting, audit compliance, and stakeholder management to ensure organizational financial sustainability. The successful candidate will lead process improvements and ensure adherence to regulatory frameworks and internal controls.
Responsibilities
- Manage AR operations, billing, and collections
- Ensure accurate revenue recognition and reporting
- Oversee grant accounting and financial audits
- Lead process improvements and SAP S/4HANA workflows
Required Skills
- 10-15 years finance experience
- SAP S/4HANA expertise
- Audit and regulatory compliance
- Professional accounting qualification (CA/CPA/ACCA)
Job Details
Responsibilities:
- Oversee accounts receivable operations, including billing, collections, refunds, and debt management.
- Ensure accurate, complete, and timely revenue recognition and reporting for training programmes, projects, grants, and other income streams.
- Review and approve journals, revenue adjustments, and AR-related accounting treatments within SAP S/4HANA.
- Ensure accurate and timely preparation of financial and AR reports for management and regulatory purposes.
- Partner with business stakeholders to provide finance and management support in budgeting, forecasting, financial sustainability planning, grant claims and audits, billing and collections management, debt risk management, and consolidated reporting.
- Provide finance advisory support for business development initiatives through assessment of funding structures, pricing strategies, and financial risks.
- Ensure compliance with organisational policies, data governance requirements, and relevant regulatory frameworks, Companies Act, GST regulations, and PDPA.
- Maintain strong internal controls over billing, revenue recognition, grant accounting, and AR processes.
- Identify control gaps and operational risks, and implement appropriate mitigating measures.
- Lead the resolution of audit queries and issues with internal and external auditors.
- Oversee grant audits and ensure accuracy and completeness of income and expenditure reporting and related submissions.
- Review and enhance finance-related policies, procedures, and SOPs to strengthen governance, standardisation, and operational effectiveness.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance process efficiency, system controls, and audit readiness across financial processing, billing, collections, and SAP S/4HANA workflows.
- Engage stakeholders across divisions to ensure alignment, adoption, and compliance with updated systems and processes.
- Support system enhancement initiatives from design through testing and implementation.
- Drive change management efforts for new finance processes and contribute to finance transformation and value creation initiatives.
Requirements:
- Degree in Accountancy, Finance, Business, or related discipline with 10–15 years of relevant finance experience.
- Professional accounting qualification such as CA, CPA, ACCA, or equivalent preferred.
- Experience in public sector, education, training, or grant-funded environments is advantageous.
- Strong experience in audit, regulatory reporting, and internal controls.
- Hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA or similar ERP systems.
- Resilient, hands-on, and able to thrive in a dynamic environment.