Turnitin is your partner in education with integrity. Turnitin’s originality checking and authorship investigation services ensure academic integrity, promote critical thinking, and help students improve their authentic writing. Turnitin provides instructors with the tools to prevent plagiarism, engage students in the writing process, and provide personalized feedback. Turnitin is used by more than 30 million students at 15,000 institutions in 140 countries. Turnitin is headquartered in Oakland, Calif., with international offices in Newcastle, U.K., Utrecht, Netherlands, Melbourne, Australia, Seoul, Korea and throughout Latin America.

We are searching for people who demonstrate a passion for education and technology, are collaborative and entrepreneurial in spirit, and who can contribute to our continuing success and growth. In return, Turnitin offers a great benefits package and provides challenging and inspiring work.

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

Responsibilities: 

● Local Team Champion: Take a leadership role in the onboarding, recruitment, training, and be the first point of contact for the team being built locally. Empower your team members to excel in their roles and contribute to the organization's success. 

● 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 Billing 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. 

● Account Reconciliations: Demonstrate your meticulous nature through accurate and timely customer account reconciliations, playing a vital role in maintaining accurate financial records.

● Strategic Collection: Actively contribute to maintaining desirable Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) and aging metrics in relation to Debtors, ensuring the business meets its cash collection targets effectively. 

● 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. 

● Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field. 

● 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.

● 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. 

Elevate your career journey by joining us as an Accounts Receivable Team Lead. Take the reins of our financial operations, lead a dynamic team, and make a significant impact on our organization's growth and success. 

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

Equality Statement

Turnitin LLC and all related Group and Subsidiary Companies are committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to it programs, facilities and employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, creed, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital or veterans status.

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.
• 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.
• Accountability- Holds oneself responsible for required actions, and ensures that team members/colleagues/ peers also own responsibility for their designated tasks while meeting collective team and company goals. All in service of creating a high performing environment
• Collaboration & Influencing- Effectively communicates and cooperates with peers, partners, leaders & customers to achieve outcomes. Builds relationships and creates an environment wherein people can naturally work together for the good of the company and our customers.
• 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.

Seeing Beyond the Job Ad

At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfil 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 without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, creed, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital or veterans status, domestic partner status, AIDS or HIV status, height, weight, or association with members of a protected class.