Billings Team Lead (UK Remote)

Company Description

When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Gradescope by Turnitin, iThenticate, Turnitin Feedback Studio, Turnitin Originality, Turnitin Similarity, ExamSoft, Ouriginal and ProctorExam.

Turnitin has offices in Australia, India, Indonesia, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education. Come join us, and let's make change together.

Job Description

As an Accounts Receivable Team Lead, you will take a pivotal role in shaping and optimising our financial operations. Your expertise in accounts receivable, leadership capabilities, and strategic thinking will contribute to the financial success of our organisation. We're seeking an accomplished professional to lead a high-performing team and ensure seamless transactions while achieving our financial goals.

Responsibilities:

• Billing Excellence: Oversee the accurate billing of customers, leveraging your experience to generate invoices from sales orders within NetSuite. Craft meticulous billing schedules that highlight revenue commitments for multi-year deals based on comprehensive data from SFDC.
• Global Compliance: Ensuring adherence to diverse ways of working and local jurisdiction requirements, you'll ensure that the required approaches are understood, met, and consistently applied across different regions.
• Credit Management: Take the lead in generating credit memos for the entire region while extending your support to other regions as needed. Use your expertise to meet and even surpass KPIs and metrics, ensuring successful billing and collections outcomes.
• Month-End Efficiency: Actively manage and streamline month-end tasks and reconciliations, ensuring a timely and precise financial close.
• Process Enhancement: Innovate by creating Standard Operating Procedures, training guides, and Best Practices, enhancing the overall efficiency and performance of the team. Leverage your leadership to oversee the implementation and adherence to these improvements.
• Cultural Sensitivity: Skillfully navigate and manage cultural and regional differences while upholding payment terms, fostering positive customer relationships.
• Collaborative Partnerships: Work closely with the Orders and Collections Team for seamless sales order corrections, credit memos, and prepayments. Collaborate with the Tax Team on global tax queries and requirements to ensure accurate financial transactions.
• Team Leadership: Lead by example, motivating and guiding your team to deliver exceptional results. Provide coaching and mentorship while fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.
• Ad Hoc Contribution: Be prepared to take on additional responsibilities as required by the AR Manager, demonstrating your flexibility and commitment to the team's success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience (5+ years) in Accounts Receivable or related roles, including a minimum of 2 years in a leadership capacity.
• Proficiency in NetSuite or equivalent ERP systems.
• Thorough understanding of accounting principles, billing procedures, and financial reconciliation.
• Exceptional leadership skills, fostering teamwork and professional development.
• Commitment to growth - Turnitin believes in continuous learning.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and an analytical mindset.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work collaboratively across departments and with diverse stakeholders.
• Proven track record of process improvement initiatives and project participation.
• Dedication to meeting targets and deadlines while maintaining attention to detail.

Tii Elements:

• Action & Ownership: the role requires a high degree of self-drive and accountability.
• Customer Centric: the role collaborates with internal stakeholders and aims to deliver positive customer experiences through all interactions.
• One Team: successful billing requires strong partnerships with other Finance functions (Tax, Orders and Collections to name a few).

Additional Information

Total Rewards @ Turnitin
Turnitin maintains a Total Rewards package that is competitive within the local job market. People tend to think about their Total Rewards monetarily — solely as regular pay plus bonus or commission. This is what they earn in exchange for what they do. However, Turnitin delivers more than just these components. Beyond the intrinsic rewards of making a difference in the lives of educators, administrators, learners and researchers around the world, and thriving in an organization that is free of politics and full of humble, inclusive and collaborative teammates, the extrinsic rewards at Turnitin include generous time off and health and wellness programs that offer choice and flexibility and provide a safety net for the challenges that life presents from time to time. In our Remote-First approach to collaborating, you are also able to work the way that best fits your style and situation - whether that be remote, in one of our offices/rented spaces, or hybrid.

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.

Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
• Passion for Learning - We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.
• Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
• Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
• One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.
• Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.

Global Benefits

• Flexible/hybrid working
• Remote First Culture
• Health Care Coverage*
• Tuition Reimbursement*
• Competitive Paid Time Off
• 4 Self-Care Days per year
• National Holidays*
• 2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed
• Paid Volunteer Time*
• Charitable contribution match*
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement/Home Office Equipment*
• Access to Modern Health (mental health platform)
• Parental Leave*
• Retirement Plan with match/contribution*

* varies by country

Seeing Beyond the Job Ad

At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team!

Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.