Role Description
We are seeking a hands-on Accounts Receivable Manager to lead Slate’s AR function across reservation deposits, vehicle sales, and merchandise. Reporting to the Head of Treasury, this role owns day-to-day AR operations, cash application, customer balance integrity, and AR close. It also serves as the AR voice in Slate’s broader order-to-cash and bank-to-book design work, partnering with Treasury, Accounting, and Digital on how AR fits into the target architecture. The ideal candidate combines strong AR fundamentals with a clear point of view on how modern AR, OMS, ERP, and treasury systems should connect.
What You Get to Do
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Cash Application & Customer Balances:
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Own daily cash application across reservation deposits, vehicle balance payments, and merchandise sales, ensuring each cash event ties to the correct customer and order.
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Manage refunds, chargebacks, cancellations, and the conversion of deposits as customers progress from reservation to delivery.
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AR Close & Reconciliations:
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Own AR month-end close, including customer deposit liability, AR aging, processor and lender receivables, and payment processor AR reconciliation.
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Operate the daily and monthly AR reconciliations across processors, auto financing partners, and bank accounts, clearing breaks at the source rather than letting them carry.
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Prepare AR-related close-time disclosure inputs in accordance with Slate's Cash Policy and Customer Deposits SOP.
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AR Operations & Team:
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Build and lead the AR function as volumes scale, hiring and developing analysts as transaction volume warrants.
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Establish AR policies, procedures, and KPIs (DSO, unapplied cash aging, exception rates) and report performance to Accounting and Treasury leadership.
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Manage AR-relevant vendor relationships with payment processors, financing partners, and SaaS providers on configuration, support, and roadmap items.
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Controls & SOX Readiness:
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Design and document AR controls for a SOX-ready environment ahead of IPO, including reviewer sign-off, segregation of duties, and evidence retention.
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Maintain process narratives and risk and control matrices that stay current as systems and volumes evolve.
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O2C and Bank-to-Book Partnership:
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Represent AR in Slate's order-to-cash and bank-to-book design work led by Treasury, Accounting, and Digital, bringing a clear point of view on how AR should fit into the target architecture across order capture tool, OMS, payment processors, auto financing partners, NetSuite, the future TMS, and FloQast.
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Provide AR requirements and acceptance criteria for system changes that touch customer payments, customer balances, or AR sub-ledgers, and lead AR-side user acceptance testing.
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Flag downstream AR impacts of upstream changes (new payment methods, new sales channels, pricing changes) before they go live.
Qualifications
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7+ years of accounts receivable or accounting operations experience, including 3+ years in a manager or lead capacity.
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Strong AR fundamentals: cash application, customer deposit accounting, AR close, reconciliations, aging analysis, and DSO management.
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Working knowledge of NetSuite AR (or comparable ERP) and experience operating in or implementing an order management system, payment processor (Adyen, Stripe, or similar), and a close platform (FloQast, BlackLine, or similar).
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Clear point of view on how modern AR, OMS, ERP, and treasury systems should connect, with the credibility to engage Treasury, Accounting, and Digital partners on architecture decisions.
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Experience writing functional requirements, leading user acceptance testing, and partnering with IT or vendors through system implementations.
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Familiarity with SOX requirements for AR-relevant systems and processes, ideally in a pre-IPO or recently public-company environment.
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Advanced Excel skills; comfort with SQL or query-based reporting tools is a plus.
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Comfortable in a fast-paced, growth-stage environment where AR processes are still being built rather than maintained.
Location / Travel
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Remote eligible with travel as needed for key meetings (expected travel: as needed, but typically not more than semi-annually).
Why Join Team Slate?
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At Slate, we’re fueled by grit, determination, and attention to detail.
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The start-up spirit of ingenuity and resourcefulness move our business forward.
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Team Slate fosters a culture of excellence, innovation, and mutual respect, and is motivated by shared principles.
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Safety First
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Delight Customers
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One Team
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Relentless Improvement
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Fast, Frugal, and Scrappy
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Respectful Collaboration
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Positive Legacy