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Checkr is a data platform powering safe and fair decisions through AI verification. The company serves over 140,000 customers including Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, and Anthropic. Checkr is on the Forbes Cloud 100 2025 list and a Y Combinator 2024 Breakthrough Company.
Reporting to the Director of Billing Operations & AR, you will oversee the accuracy, scalability, and automation of Checkr's global Accounts Receivable process. You'll own cash application, reconciliations, unapplied cash resolution, and dispute management while managing an offshore AR team operating in U.S. hours. This role bridges accounting and systems, driving automation while ensuring the AR subledger, bank activity, and general ledger remain perfectly aligned.
Key responsibilities include:
Close & Reconciliation: Own the monthly AR close end-to-end, including subledger-to-GL tie-out, cash application clearing, aging roll-forward, and flux commentary. Maintain the allowance for credit losses reserve methodology and defend estimates to external audit. Reconcile third-party payment processor activity (Stripe, etc.) to the general ledger. Prepare and review AR journal entries with supporting documentation.
Controls & Audit: Design and document the AR control set (cash application, credit memo approval, write-off authorization, customer master changes). Serve as documented reviewer of record for AR team work. Own the AR scope of SOX 404 readiness including process narratives, walkthroughs, and control matrices. Maintain AR accounting policies and SOPs. Act as primary AR contact for external and internal audit.
Operations & Team: Manage the AR operation including collections strategy, dispute resolution, and stale balance reduction. Establish dispute and chargeback resolution in payment service providers. Build and mentor a high-performing AR team with sufficient bench depth. Publish AR KPIs and dashboards (DSO, aging buckets, unapplied cash, reserve coverage). Design and implement scalable automation using Excel, SQL, NetSuite, or Oracle. Partner cross-functionally with Billing, Revenue Accounting, Data Engineering, Sales Ops, Legal, and Product on new monetization models.
Required qualifications: 8+ years of accounting experience with meaningful ownership of receivables, billing, or order-to-cash cycle in tech-enabled or services environments; 2–3 years in a lead or manager capacity. Demonstrated ownership of monthly close activities. Proven experience managing offshore/BPO accounting teams. Deep understanding of GAAP principles.
