Accounts Receivable Project Lead
Location: Gurgaon
Experience: 6 - 12 Years
Function: Finance / Accounts Receivable / Credit Control
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Accounts Receivable Project Lead to own the end-to-end AR charter, with a strong focus on cash flow protection, credit control, billing discipline, dispute resolution, and recoveries.
The role will be a single-threaded owner responsible for driving AR health across owners, operators, business teams, and other stakeholders through structured processes, strong governance, and timely escalations.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end billing cycle governance, including billing frequency, cut-off dates, invoice timelines, payment due dates, and dispute windows.
- Establish and maintain a single billing calendar with weekly adherence reviews to ensure zero delays and slippages.
- Build and implement an AR control framework with bucket-wise strategies, operating cadence, and solid credit-control mechanisms.
- Drive credit enforcement, including prepaid terms,
credit limits, inventory holds, and escalations as per defined policies.
- Own dispute resolution and closure, working closely with Business, Finance, Legal, and Operations teams.
- Develop recovery strategies based on ageing, outstanding amount, dispute type, account category, and recovery probability.
- Lead negotiations with stakeholders for commercial closures, settlements, recoveries, and payment resolutions.
- Create playbooks and training modules for negotiation, dispute management, documentation, and recovery processes.
- Coach and manage Project Managers working under the AR charter.
- Drive weekly governance through AR dashboards, ageing reports, recovery pipelines, forecasts, and action trackers.
- Ensure appropriate approval mechanisms for settlements, waivers, NOCs, settlement letters, and other commercial closures.
- Maintain complete documentation and audit trails for all disputes, negot
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