Director Working Capital & Assistant Treasurer

StepStone Group

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Newton, MA - USA

profile Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 7 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Director Working Capital & Assistant Treasurer is a senior finance leadership role responsible for endtoend ownership of the companys treasury function and centralized order entry operations with a core mandate to optimize liquidity reduce working capital friction and strengthen ordertocash execution. This role partners closely with Accounting FP&A Sales Legal Deal Desk and executive leadership to ensure disciplined cash management scalable controls and highquality revenue and billing operations as the business grows. 

The role combines strategic treasury leadership with operational ownership of Order-to-Cash Enablement (Centralized Order Entry through to AR) including the expectation to be hands-on working closely with the team day to day. The role will be serving as a trusted advisor on liquidity risk and working capital while building durable processes systems and teams. 

This role will report to the Senior Director  Accounting and Finance. 

Job Responsibilities  

Team Leadership & People Management 

  • Manage provide leadership and strategic direction for the accounts receivable team ensuring high levels of training performance and collaboration. 
  • Foster a team culture that supports personal growth and continuous improvement including performance reviews regular feedback and career development. 
  • Lead the recruitment of new team members and oversee resource planning to ensure efficient scaling and allocation of resources. 

Treasury & Cash Management (Full Function Ownership) 

  • Own and lead the companys endtoend treasury function including daily cash positioning liquidity forecasting and short and longterm cash planning to support operational and strategic needs. 
  • Develop implement and maintain comprehensive treasury policies procedures and controls including bank account governance authorized signers and standard operating procedures. 
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for banking relationships and financial institutions including account openings/closings fee management service optimization and performance reviews. 
  • Oversee global cash management activities including cash pooling structures intercompany funding and optimization of idle cash while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. 
  • Manage foreign currency exposure in partnership with senior leadership including identification of FX risk execution of approved hedging strategies and related accounting and reporting. 
  • Oversee treasury-related accounting activities including bank and cash reconciliations interest accruals FX remeasurement and coordination with the general ledger team. 
  • Prepare and present cash flow analysis liquidity reporting and treasury insights for executive leadership and Board or investor reporting as required. 
  • Ensure strong SOX/internal controls over treasury activities proactively remediating control gaps and partnering with internal and external auditors. 

Centralized Order Entry 

  • Establish and own a centralized order entry function ensuring accurate timely and compliant entry of customer contracts and orders into the companys billing and ERP systems. 
  • Define and enforce order entry policies and controls aligned with revenue recognition billing accuracy and customer master data integrity. 
  • Partner closely with Sales Legal Deal Desk and Revenue Accounting to ensure contracts amendments pricing and billing terms are correctly interpreted and operationalized. 
  • Ensure orders are reviewed for credit approval pricing accuracy tax treatment and billing readiness prior to invoicing. 
  • Oversee master data governance for customers billing schedules and contract attributes that impact invoicing collections and revenue processes. 
  • Drive continuous improvement in the ordertocash lifecycle reducing billing errors rework revenue leakage and downstream collections issues. 
  • Implement and optimize systems workflows and controls to support scalable order entry operations as the business grows. 
  • Develop reporting and KPIs to monitor order quality cycle times error rates and downstream financial impact using insights to improve crossfunctional execution. 

Leadership Systems & CrossFunctional Partnership 

  • Build mentor and scale teams supporting Treasury and Order Entry establishing clear accountability segregation of duties and career development paths. 
  • Lead or support implementations and enhancements of treasury workstations ERP platforms billing systems and automation initiatives impacting cash orders and billing. 
  • Partner with FP&A Accounting and Operations to support working capital optimization including cash flow forecasting DSO/DPO improvement and liquidity planning. 
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership on liquidity financial risk customer billing quality and operational scalability. 

Qualifications :

  • Strong leadership and team management abilities with experience in developing coaching and mentoring teams. 
  • Knowledge and background in process improvement business operations project management change management and workflow implementations. 
  • Strong attention to detail with a high degree of organization and follow-up capabilities. 
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
  • Skilled at managing multiple priorities and relationships in a matrixed organization. 
  • Ability to prepare monthly financial statements key metric reports budgets forecasts cash flow projections and analyses. 
  • Understanding of US GAAP with IFRS as a benefit. 

Education and Experience

  • Bachelors degree in accounting business finance or related field is required. 
  • 8 years of progressive experience in treasury accounting working capital and/or order-to-cash is required. 
  • Supplemental experience in accounting and/or finance is preferred. 
  • At least 3 years of experience in a leadership role overseeing both accounts payable and receivable functions with a proven track record of managing AP/AR teams and optimizing financial operations. 
  • Strong experience with financial software and ERP systems. 

Travel Requirements 

  • Typical travel for this position will include quarterly travel to attend internal and external meetings however this may vary based on business needs and opportunities. 

Fair Labor Standards Act Status

  • Salaried Exempt: Personnel will earn their regular salary and not be entitled to overtime pay when they work over 40 hours in a work week. 

Supervisory Responsibilities

  • This role will oversee the entire Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable teams to include managers and their direct reports. 

Additional Information :

Appcast recognized as one of Inc Magazines Best Workplaces for 2024! 

  • Were the best at what we do.Were the global leader in programmatic recruitment advertising. With advanced technology unmatched market data and a team of the industrys best recruitment marketers. 
  • We have an amazing culture driven by great people.Headquartered in Lebanon N.H. with offices in the U.S. Canada and Europe Appcast is part of the Stepstone group. To better understand our company culture readOur Storyand check outWorking at Appcaston our website.  
  • We take care of our employees.Were dedicated to creating an inviting environment where individuals from diverse backgrounds can thrive and develop. We believe in providing competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits ensuring our team can support their loved ones and one another. We enjoy fostering a sense of community through dedicated employee networks fun gatherings delicious food and even welcoming furry friends into our workspace. We live our values each day including volunteering and giving back to our communities. 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. 

Appcast is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and if necessary the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employees Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

E-Verify is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This employer does not use E-Verify to pre-screen job applicants and will not discriminate based on national origin citizenship or immigration status.


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