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The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from:

• $155,600 to $194,500 in Orange, CT
• $162,640 to $203,300 in Boston, MA

What We Offer:

Competitive benefits and growth opportunities
Generous performancebased bonuses
12% 401(k) match
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
Tuition reimbursement

Professional development and clear career advancement pathways

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Job Summary

The Sr. Manager, Customer Service Technology Billing & Collections is responsible for Billing, FICA & Collections Technology. Position is also responsible for the day-to-day management, delivery, and operational performance of technology platforms supporting Billing, Financial Contract Accounting (FICA), and Credit & Collections functions for a regulated electric and/or gas utility.

The Sr. Manager, Customer Service Billing & Collections role serves as the primary IT partner to Billing Operations, Credit & Collections, Revenue Protection, and Customer Accounting teams, ensuring systems are stable, compliant, and responsive to changing operational and regulatory requirements. The incumbent will play a key role in maintaining billing accuracy, reducing exceptions, supporting revenue assurance, and enabling customer focused collections practices through effective use of technology.

The Sr. Manager, IT Customer Service Technology role reports into the Director - IT Applications.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Ownership - Billing, FICA & Collections

• Own the technology platforms and configurations supporting:
• Consumption and nonconsumption billing
• FICA contract accounts, postings, payments, and dunning
• Credit and collections workflows, rules, and customer communications
• Ensure systems operate reliably during critical billing, invoicing, and collections cycles.
• Act as firstline IT accountability for production issues impacting bills, payments, or customer balances.

Operational Stability & Exception Management

• Monitor system performance, batch jobs, interfaces, and controls across the billing and collections landscape.
• Partner with business teams to identify, prioritize, and reduce billing exceptions, estimated bills, and manual workarounds.
• Lead rootcause analysis and corrective actions for billing defects, posting issues, and collections failures.

Delivery & Continuous Improvement

• Lead IT delivery for billing and collections enhancements, including configuration changes, releases, and minor projects.
• Translate business requirements into clear functional and technical designs aligned with utility standards.
• Support testing activities (unit, integration, UAT) with strong emphasis on bill accuracy and customer impact.

Regulatory & Compliance Support

• Ensure billing and collections technology complies with applicable tariffs, customer protection rules, and regulatory timelines.
• Support internal and external audits, data requests, and regulatory inquiries related to billing accuracy and collections practices.
• Maintain appropriate controls, documentation, and traceability for changes impacting customer charges and financial outcomes.

Business Partnership & Coordination

• Serve as a daytoday IT liaison for Billing, Credit & Collections, and Customer Accounting leadership.
• Coordinate across IT teams (CIS, integrations, data, infrastructure) to resolve issues and deliver enhancements.
• Communicate clearly with business partners on system issues, risks, release timing, and stabilization activities.

Vendor & Team Management

• Manage small teams of analysts/configurators and coordinate work with system integrators or application support vendors.
• Ensure SLAs, backlog priorities, and release activities align with billing calendars and operational constraints.
• Contribute to planning and forecasting of runcosts and small capital initiatives within assigned scope.

Leadership

• High attention to detail and accountability for customer impacting outcomes
• Calm, structured response to production issues
• Strong collaboration with business operations
• Risk-aware mindset appropriate for regulated environments
• Continuous improvement orientation

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study and a minimum of ten (10) years of relevant experience. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

• Relevant experience includes progressively responsible experience in IT, with significant focus on customerfacing or customeroperations technology.

• Demonstrated experience with customer information systems (CIS), SAP IS-U FI-CA & Billing or other largescale customer service platforms.

• Proven ability to lead crossfunctional delivery teams and manage complex, highvisibility systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study.

• Hands on experience with CIS billing, IS-U FI CA, or credit and collections platforms.

• Understanding of batch processing, billing cycles, and customer impact of system changes.

• Experience with FICA concepts such as contract accounts, dunning, write offs, agency interfaces, and payment processing.

• Familiarity with utility credit and collections policies, including low-income programs, payment arrangements, and regulatory constraints.

• Ability to balance operational stability with incremental modernization.

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

• Clear written and verbal communication skills, particularly when explaining system issues to non technical stakeholders.

Competencies

• Growth & Continuous Improvement

• Initiative & Change

• Focused on Results

• Customer Centric (internal and/or external)

• Communication

• Collaboration

• Leadership (people managers/leaders)

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Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.

Avangrid employees may also be assigned a NERC Reliability Standards compliance role supporting Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and/or Operations and Planning (O&P) responsibilities. This is applicable to employees that will work in electric transmission, operations, and cyber security business areas in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate business areas. NERC Reliability Standards compliance roles and responsibilities may include additional access protections, training, audit engagement, and required evidence retention, and will be communicated by the employee's management.

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