What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounts Receivable Manager position at TAS Energy Inc.?
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Accounts Receivable Manager is responsible for overseeing all aspects of billing, collections, and cash application for the company. This role provides leadership to the AR team, ensures compliance with contractual billing terms, drives timely collections, and partners cross-functionally to improve cash flow, resolve disputes, and strengthen internal controls. The position plays a key role in financial reporting, process improvement, and customer relationship management.
KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
Accounts Receivable Operations
- Oversee end-to-end accounts receivable processes, including customer billing, cash application, collections, credit management, and dispute resolution.
- Ensure accurate, timely, and compliant billing in accordance with customer contracts, purchase orders, and internal policies.
- Monitor AR aging and proactively drive collection efforts to meet or exceed DSO and cash flow targets.
- Review and approve account reconciliations; ensure discrepancies are investigated and resolved promptly.
- Ensure proper application of customer payments and credits within the ERP system.
Leadership & Team Management
- Lead, coach, and develop the Accounts Receivable team, including workload prioritization, performance management, and training.
- Establish clear procedures, controls, and service-level expectations for the AR function.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the team.
Cross-Functional & Customer Collaboration
- Build strong working relationships with Sales, Project Management, Engineering, Service, and Operations to resolve billing and collection issues.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for customers regarding billing questions, payment status, and dispute escalation.
- Partner with internal stakeholders to improve contract clarity, billing accuracy, and customer satisfaction.
Reporting & Analysis
- Prepare and present AR-related reports, including aging, collections forecasts, cash receipts, and bad debt analysis.
- Support month-end close activities related to accounts receivable, including journal entries, reconciliations, and reporting schedules.
- Assist with audit requests and ensure compliance with internal controls and accounting standards.
Process Improvement & Systems
- Identify and implement opportunities to streamline billing, collections, and cash application processes.
- Maintain and enhance ERP system usage related to AR (e.g., customer setup, billing workflows, reporting).
- Participate in system upgrades, implementations, or process redesign initiatives as needed.
- All other duties as assigned by TAS.
JOB SKILLS:
- Strong working knowledge of ERP systems.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial reporting tools.
- Strong understanding of AR controls, collections strategies, and customer credit risk.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills with internal teams and external customers.
- High level of attention to detail, professionalism, and confidentiality.
EDUCATION & TRAINING:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field preferred (or equivalent experience)
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- 7–10 years of progressive accounts receivable experience, preferably in a manufacturing, engineering, construction, or project-based environment.
- Prior experience managing or leading an AR team required.
- Experience working with contract-based billing strongly preferred.
PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:
- Experience in a project based manufacturing environment
- Experience with Infor LN
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:
Position is at least 80% to 95% at a desk working with computer. Ability to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Performs other physical activities including use of fingers, sitting, stooping, bending, crouching, talking, hearing, and performing repetitive motions. Visual acuity requirements include color, depth perception and field of vision necessary to prepare and analyze data and figures, operate a computer terminal, and conduct extensive reading. The incumbent will be subject to inside environmental conditions.
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Join a team driven to excel in all that we do! When you join TAS, you join a Houston-headquartered company that is part of a large Houston-headquartered publicly traded company, Comfort Systems USA, with a solid reputation built on outstanding value, integrity, and customer focus. We offer our customers and employees the best of both worlds: a small company feel with the resources, talent, process, and international reach of a large company.
TAS delivers innovative packaged modular systems that are engineered and manufactured in one of our Houston, TX facilities and utilized in data centers, power, and commercial/industrial utility system applications. TAS has successfully delivered and commissioned over 520 packages to over 33 countries. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX and has five ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facilities in Houston, encompassing 1.2m sq. feet with proximity to major shipping ports and interstate highways. TAS manages all logistics and transportation facilitating accelerated construction at customer’s facilities.
TAS’ fastest growing business is the data center market. By applying deep expertise in cooling, thermodynamics, and power, TAS has developed an entire product line that revolutionizes data center delivery.
With our tremendous market potential, advanced technological systems, entrepreneurial culture as well as a talented and productive workforce, we continue to set and exceed aggressive market penetration and financial goals. More information is available on the company website at: www.tas.com.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: TAS has a tobacco-free workplace policy, under which individuals are not allowed to smoke or use tobacco or nicotine products on the TAS premises, while conducting TAS business off premises or take "smoking" breaks during working hours. “smoking” and “tobacco or nicotine products” includes, but is not limited to, product such as cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, pipes, vaping, all forms of smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco, snuff, dip) and clove cigarettes
The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job.
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TAS Energy Inc. guarantees equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.