Global Director - Accounts Receivable in Canada Creek, Nova Scotia at Jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Global Director - Accounts Receivable based in Canada.

This senior finance leadership role will oversee the global Order-to-Cash function, ensuring revenue is billed accurately, collected efficiently, and reported consistently across countries and legal entities. You will lead critical processes spanning billing, collections, cash application, disputes, credit administration, and accounts receivable close activities. The role combines strategic process ownership with strong operational governance, reporting, controls, and continuous improvement. You will collaborate closely with operations, sales, legal, tax, treasury, FP&A, project management, and local finance teams to resolve complex receivables challenges. A key focus will be standardizing and automating processes while maintaining flexibility for country-specific requirements and customer needs. You will also play an important role in integrating acquired businesses by aligning order-to-cash processes, customer data, billing practices, and reporting. This is an opportunity to shape a global AR organization while improving cash flow visibility, accountability, efficiency, and financial performance.

• oice rejection rates, billing cycle time, and high-risk customer exposure.
• Lead the standardization and automation of billing and cash application processes, including ERP workflows, customer portals, invoice templates, project billing controls, and integrated reporting.
• Support the integration of acquired businesses by mapping Order-to-Cash processes, aligning billing requirements, migrating customer master data, standardizing collection routines, and stabilizing AR reporting.
• Maintain strong controls over customer master data, billing authorization, revenue cut-off, credit approvals, allowance judgments, write-offs, cash application, and documentation retention.
• Partner with FP&A to provide clear visibility into receipts, overdue balances, collection risks, and other receivables matters affecting liquidity and cash flow forecasting.
• Drive continuous improvement through stronger billing discipline, effective collections management, timely dispute resolution, and increased visibility and accountability across the receivables function.
• Identify opportunities to improve global AR performance through process optimization, automation, stronger governance, and consistent operating practices.

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Bring 8+ years of leadership experience across Accounts Receivable, Order-to-Cash, billing, collections, project accounting, shared services, or accounting operations.
• Have experience working in professional services, consulting, engineering, project-based, multi-country, or acquisition-driven environments.
• Demonstrate a strong track record of standardizing and improving financial processes, implementing effective controls, and driving automation across complex organizations.
• Possess strong knowledge of billing, collections, cash application, dispute management, credit processes, receivables reporting, and financial controls.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze AR performance through metrics such as aging, ADD, collection effectiveness, unapplied cash, and dispute trends.
• Have strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively with sales, operations, project management, legal, tax, treasury, FP&A, and finance teams.
• Bring strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders across countries and functions.
• Be comfortable managing complex, global processes while balancing standardization with local regulatory, statutory, and customer requirements.
• Demonstrate a continuous-improvement mindset and the ability to identify opportunities for greater efficiency, automation, accountability, and cash flow performance.

• Annual base salary of $125,000–$150,000, excluding benefits.
• Opportunity to lead a global Order-to-Cash and Accounts Receivable function.
• Exposure to international finance operations, acquisition integration, process transformation, and automation initiatives.
• Professional growth opportunities within a global and evolving organization.
• A diverse and inclusive environment that values collaboration, integrity, continuous improvement, and different perspectives.
• The opportunity to make a direct impact on cash flow visibility, financial controls, and global operational efficiency.