Accounts Receivable Lead, Checkr
$112-156k
OTE
Salary dependent on location + Competitive cash and equity compensation
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3+ days a week in office
Automated background checks
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Automated background checks
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$112-156k
OTE
Salary dependent on location + Competitive cash and equity compensation
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a fairer future by designing technology to create opportunities for all.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of accounting experience with meaningful ownership of receivables, billing, or the order-to-cash cycle in a tech-enabled or services environment; 2–3 years in a lead or manager capacity
- Demonstrated ownership of a monthly close: reconciliations, journal entries, flux analysis, and review of work prepared by others
- Proven experience managing offshore/BPO accounting teams
- Deep understanding of GAAP principles, SOX controls, and audit readiness
- Strong systems mindset — hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion, NetSuite, Alteryx, Snowflake, or similar tools. (preferred)
- Demonstrated success in automation or process transformation within AR or finance operations
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills; able to partner with Billing, Revenue, and Engineering teams
What the job involves
- Reporting to the Director of Billing Operations & AR, the Accounts Receivable Lead will oversee the accuracy, scalability, and automation of our global Accounts Receivable process. This role owns cash application, reconciliations, unapplied cash resolution, and dispute management, while managing an offshore AR team operating mostly in U.S. hours
- You’ll be the bridge between accounting and systems, driving automation and ensuring the company’s AR subledger, bank activity, and general ledger remain perfectly aligned. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives at the intersection of accounting precision and process innovation
- Close, Reconciliation, and Accounting
- Own the monthly AR close end-to-end: subledger-to-GL tie-out, cash application clearing, unapplied and on-account cash, aging roll-forward, and flux commentary against both prior period and expectation
- Own the allowance for credit losses: maintain the reserve methodology, refresh the loss-rate inputs each quarter, document the judgments applied, and defend the estimate to external audit
- Prepare and review AR reconciliations, including aging of reconciling items, root-cause classification, and a documented clearing plan for anything past threshold. Unexplained reconciling items do not roll forward
- Reconcile third-party payment processor activity, including Stripe and other PSPs, to the general ledger: gross settlement, processing fees, refunds, chargebacks, and reserve balances
- Prepare and review AR journal entries, including write-offs, credit and debit memos, reclasses, and reserve true-ups, with support attached at the time of posting rather than assembled later
- Controls, Review, and Audit
- Own the design, documentation, and operating effectiveness of the AR control set: cash application, credit memo and adjustment approval, write-off authorization, customer master changes, and dunning exceptions
- Serve as reviewer of record for the AR team's work. Review is a documented control activity with evidence of what was reviewed, what was tested, and what was concluded; it is not an informal second read
- Own the AR scope of SOX 404 readiness: process narratives, walkthroughs, control matrices, PBC responses, and remediation of any deficiency identified
- Maintain AR accounting policies, SOPs, and desktop procedures, and keep them current as systems, processes, and monetization models change
- Act as the primary AR point of contact for external and internal audit, delivering audit-ready documentation on request
- Operations, Team, and Systems
- Manage the AR operation: collections strategy, dispute resolution, escalation paths, and reduction of stale balances, with clear ownership boundaries between in-house staff and Shared Services or BPO partners
- Establish and maintain disputes and chargeback resolution in Stripe and other payment service providers, including both the accounting treatment and the control over who is authorized to concede a dispute
- Build and mentor a high-performing AR team through hiring, training, SOPs, and knowledge transfer, with enough bench depth that the close does not depend on any one person
- Publish AR KPIs and dashboards with a documented definition and source system for each metric: DSO, aging buckets, unapplied cash, reserve coverage, and collections forecast accuracy
- Design and implement scalable automation across the AR and close workflow using Excel, SQL, NetSuite, or Oracle, prioritizing changes that remove manual touches without weakening the control
- Partner cross-functionally with Billing, Revenue Accounting, Data Engineering, Sales Ops, Legal, and Product to support new monetization models, ensuring accounting and control requirements are designed in at the start rather than retrofitted after launch
Our take
Checkr addresses the unpleasant and time consuming process of background checks so that companies using on-demand employees can make safer, more informed hiring decisions in less time. Background checks are a critical part of the hiring process, and CEO Daniel Yannisse noticed that they were painfully slow, resulting in loss of work for candidates and productivity downturns for employers.
Before Checkr entered the market in 2014 with its innovative AI technology and a solid $50m in venture capital funding, companies were waiting upwards of two weeks for their checks. Checkr substantially reduces this time frame and has grown to receive a $5 billion valuation.
Checkr has accelerated growth by making several highly advantageous acquisitions of competitor companies, GoodHire and Inflection. As the world of work embraces diversity and inclusion, the company announced an end-to-end service for candidates wishing to expunge their criminal records, furthering the company’s ‘fair chance’ mission and clearing 1000s of candidates for free since 2021. New products launched at the end of 2023 include Checkr Pay (providing access to payment right after a shift) and Checkr Onboard (unified onboarding processes), exemplifying how Checkr is keeping pace with a rapidly changing, flexible, and mobile-first workforce.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$250m
SERIES E
Sep 2019
$160m
SERIES D
Total funding: $556.1m
Company benefits
- Parental leave
- Stock optoins
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive Health Plans | We cover 100% of insurance premiums and offer generous parental and family leave
- Competitive Compensation | We offer competitive salaries and meaningful equity
- A Variety of Food and Snacks | Our culinary team serves a rotating menu for lunch each day, along with unlimited snacks and drinks
- Wellness Programs | We invest in the holistic well-being of every team member through education reimbursements, onsite massages, and physical therapy
- Flexible Paid Time Off | We want you to take the time you need to relax and recharge
- Fitness and Public Transport Reimbursement | We’ll cover your commute and help you stay active with our onsite gym or fitness provider of choice
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jonathan Perichon
(Co-Founder)After an MSc in Computer Science, Jonathan worked as a Software Engineer at Mogreet and deliv for a combined year and a half. He co-founded Checkr in May 2014, serving as CTO since.
Daniel Yanisse
(Co-Founder & CEO)Daniel worked as a Software Engineer at Mogreet and Deliv before co-founding Checkr.
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