Group Accounts Receivable Controller

A bit about us 

Do you want to join one of the world’s fastest growing sports technology companies? 

Genius Sports is at the epicentre of the global network connecting sports, brands and fans through official live data. Our mission is simple. We champion a more sustainable sports data ecosystem that benefits all parties. 

We’re looking for enthusiastic and ambitious people to join our talented team.  

If you see yourself becoming part of a global family building the future of sports entertainment together, then come and grow with us.  

We put trust in our people to deliver the difference for our clients around the world. It’s why many of the world’s largest leagues & federations such as the NFL, English Premier League, FIBA and NCAA choose to work with Genius Sports. 

Role Description

The Group Accounts Receivable Controller is being hired to lead a global team of AR analysts at Genius Sports. This team plays a critical role in managing invoicing, credit control, and cash collection worldwide. Key responsibilities include overseeing query management, monitoring bad debt provisions, and maintaining strong SOX controls. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with commercial sales teams, approve invoices and customers, and drive continuous improvement across processes, ensuring the team's effectiveness and success.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage the Accounts Receivable team of 4 people to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and compliance.
• Develop and implement efficient processes and workflows across transactional functions, driving improvements in speed, accuracy and reliability.
• Establish KPIs for the transactional processing team and credit control team, monitoring performance and delivering constructive feedback to drive performance improvements.
• Maintain strong relationships with customers and internal commercial stakeholders, ensuring timely and effective resolution of any discrepancies.
• Ensure all customer invoicing is processed accurately and on schedule, minimising delays and errors that could impact cash flow.
• Monitoring AR invoice and resolution of queries in a timely manner.
• Build a strong focus on credit control to drive improvements in aging, bad debt and write offs.
• Ensure all transactional processing is aligned with the company’s financial controls and governance standards.
• Manage month-end, quarter-end and year-end close processes across invoicing, cash allocation and bad debt reporting to meet reporting deadlines
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of transactional processing professionals, promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
• Identify opportunities for process automation, working with IT and finance to implement new solutions.
• Monthly review of the groups debt position and post the bad debt provision journal.
• Invoice and customer approval in the company finance system. Including maintenance of customer mapping between the CRM and finance system.

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience in leading AR teams in global, multi service line organizations (team of 4, 2 in the UK, 2 in Columbia)
• Deep credit control experience
• Strong interpersonal skills and experience in dealing with commercial teams
• Strong understanding of ERP systems, workday finance and salesforce helpful
• Excellent organizational and multitasking abilities, with a high level of attention to detail
• Proven experience managing teams and developing team members in a high-paced environment
• Advanced knowledge of best practices in transactional billing and credit control
• Effective communicator, with a collaborative approach to cross-departmental projects
• An ethos of continuous improvement of systems, processes and ways of working
• Experience in a US listed environment is useful with a working knowledge of SOX controls

This role is also eligible for hybrid working (1-2 days in the office).

What’s in it for you? 

As well as a competitive salary and annual leave allowance, our benefits include health insurance, skills training and much more, depending on the location. We also offer a host of softer benefits, including many social events throughout the year such as summer and winter holiday parties, monthly team building events, sports tournaments, charity days and wellbeing activities.   

How we work 

We have adapted a forward-thinking ‘Ways of Working’ framework, which sets out (amongst other things) the opportunities for Geniuses to work flexibly, remotely and on working holidays. It affects different teams and locations differently, so please ask for further information in how it would work with this role. 

Our employees are empowered to stretch the boundaries of what’s achievable, always reaching further and pushing the edges to see what gives. We collaborate, we innovate, and we celebrate. We will continue to grow as an organisation and continue to invest in our highly talented and diverse team of Geniuses.  

Genius Sports Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We recognize and celebrate the benefits that a diverse and inclusive workforce bring to our business, our customers and our staff. We welcome and will consider all applications regardless of age, different abilities or disability, gender identity or re-assignment, marriage, pregnancy, maternity, race or nationality, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation (and any other applicable status). Please let us know when you apply if you need any assistance during the recruiting process due to a disability.