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At Alaska Communications, we’re committed to putting our team first, always being customer focused, having a can-do attitude, owning our results and always acting with integrity. This is what we hire for and what our team members exhibit each day. Want to make an impact with us? We are unable to support remote international applicants or routinely sponsor work visas. The compensation range for this job is: $101,865.00 - $139,255.00

The Manager, Revenue and Receivables Management provides strategic and operational leadership for billing, collections, payment channels, accounts receivable, revenue assurance, cash conversion support, and financial system reporting. This role leads a union-represented team and is accountable for operational performance, employee engagement, control effectiveness, audit readiness, and compliance with regulatory, SOX, Company, and collective bargaining requirements. This position has meaningful influence across Finance, Operations, Customer Experience, and system transformation efforts. The successful candidate will develop deep expertise in the Company’s billing and financial systems; use technology, automation, reporting, and data-driven monitoring to improve accuracy, efficiency, visibility, customer experience, and scalability; and bring forward practical recommendations that strengthen revenue operations and support thoughtful decision-making. The ideal candidate is a collaborative, forward-thinking Finance operations leader who builds trust, develops people, leads with consistency and transparency, and is comfortable driving change in a union-represented environment. This person partners effectively across functions and demonstrates the judgment and professional courage to balance business needs with financial, regulatory, contractual, and control requirements.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Leads the strategy and execution of billing, collections, payment channels, accounts receivable, revenue assurance, customer credits, billing adjustments, cash conversion support, and financial system reporting.
• Leads, coaches, and develops a union-represented team by setting clear expectations, managing priorities, addressing performance appropriately, and fostering accountability, engagement, and continuous improvement.
• Owns the Revenue Assurance Committee process for material customer credits and billing corrections, ensuring decisions are documented, financially supported, contractually aligned, and customer aware.
• Drives operational maturity by evaluating processes, controls, reporting, and system workflows; identifying opportunities; and leading approved improvements that enhance accuracy, efficiency, compliance, customer experience, and scalability.
• Owns assigned financial systems and SOX-relevant processes, including control execution, evidence preparation, exception management, remediation support, and management reporting.
• Develops deep expertise in billing, receivables, payment, and reporting systems to optimize workflows, strengthen controls, reduce manual effort, and improve performance.
• Uses reporting, transaction reviews, exception monitoring, automated alerts, exception thresholds, service-level metrics, and other technology-enabled tools to improve visibility, validate accuracy, monitor performance, and strengthen controls.
• Partners with Finance, Accounting, IT, Customer Service, Product, Marketing, Sales, Service Delivery, Human Resources, Labor Relations, and other stakeholders to align priorities, resolve issues, support change, and maintain compliance.
• Serves as the Finance representative and control point in cross-functional discussions by providing guidance, identifying financial and control considerations, and communicating requirements, approvals, or documentation needed to support sound decisions.
• Applies knowledge of billing, collections, customer terms, records retention, tax, regulatory, SOX, PCI, Union CBA Letters of Agreement, Company policy, and confidentiality requirements to support compliant operations and sound decision-making.
• Other duties as assigned.

Strategic Leadership and Influence – Leads through influence, builds alignment, exercises sound judgment, raises concerns appropriately, and translates business priorities into practical operational plans.

People and Change Leadership – Builds trust, sets clear expectations, coaches employees, supports development, and leads change in an engaged, accountable, union-represented team environment.

Operational Ownership – Takes accountability for results, follows issues through to resolution, anticipates impacts, and ensures processes, controls, and team performance support business objectives.

Continuous Improvement and Innovation – Identifies opportunities to improve accuracy, efficiency, visibility, controls, employee experience, customer experience, and measurable value.

Technology-Enabled Problem Solving – Uses systems knowledge, data, reporting, automation, and analytics to improve visibility, monitor exceptions, support decisions, and recommend enhancements.

Risk-Aware Decision Making – Considers operational, financial, compliance, customer, and control impacts when evaluating alternatives and bringing forward recommendations.

Professional Courage – Communicates difficult messages respectfully and supports decisions that protect the Company’s financial, regulatory, contractual, and control obligations.

Customer and Business Partnership – Builds collaborative relationships with business partners while balancing customer needs with financial, contractual, operational, and compliance obligations.

Integrity and Good Judgment – Demonstrates high ethical standards, protects confidential information, builds trust, and makes sound decisions based on available information.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field required.

Experience: Six (6) years of progressively responsible experience in operational finance, billing, collections, receivables management, revenue assurance, treasury operations, accounting systems, or a related financial operations function required. Required experience must include supervisory leadership, telecommunications billing and collections, process improvement, data-driven reporting or analysis, and ownership or support of financial systems, controls, or audit-ready processes.

Preferred Experience: managing union-represented teams, automated monitoring, transaction review routines, exception reporting, exception thresholds, SOX compliance, audit evidence preparation, system optimization, system testing, system implementation, CDG Elements, and CABS billing.

• Key Skills Strong financial operations judgment with the ability to lead billing, collections, receivables, revenue assurance, and related control processes.
• Ability to develop deep working knowledge of telecommunications billing systems and use that knowledge to optimize workflows, improve accuracy, enhance controls, and support system-enabled process improvements; CDG experience preferred.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to use data, reporting, transaction review routines, exception tracking, automated notifications, exception thresholds, and management reporting to improve visibility, validate transaction accuracy, and support SOX controls.
• Ability to document processes, evaluate risks and controls, support audit-ready evidence, and communicate observations, opportunities, results, and recommendations to management.
• Ability to translate financial, regulatory, contractual, and control requirements into clear guidance, documentation needs, decision points, and practical next steps for business partners.
• Ability to lead, coach, prioritize, and manage performance in a structured team environment, including supporting change and accountability in a union-represented workforce.

We hope you’ll join us as we change lives through technology. For more than 120 years, our team has served Alaskans with critical telecommunication services. As technology becomes increasingly woven into our lives, we’re focused on delivering world-class connectivity solutions to our customers, from family homes to statewide enterprises. With career opportunities across the Last Frontier, our team takes pride in serving customers and giving back to our local communities. Exciting challenges are in front of us. We’re actively building Alaska’s fastest internet with fiber to the home. In rural Alaska, we’re building a state-of-the-art network to bridge the digital divide for communities that have gone unserved for too long.