Accounts Receivable Lead

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>About Checkr<br></strong></span>Checkr is building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Over 140,000 companies and millions of people rely on Checkr for AI verification in the moments that matter most: getting a new job, a new place to live, a car ride, childcare, even a date. Customers include Uber, Pennymac, Airbnb, Doordash, and Anthropic.<br><br>We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Checkr is recognized on <a href="https://www.forbes.com/lists/cloud100/" target="_blank">Forbes Cloud 100 2025 List</a> and is a Y Combinator 2024 <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/yc-top-companies-2024">Breakthrough Company</a>.</p></div><p>Reporting to the Director of Billing Operations &amp; AR, the Accounts Receivable Lead will oversee the accuracy, scalability, and automation of our global Accounts Receivable process. This role owns cash application, reconciliations, unapplied cash resolution, and dispute management, while managing an offshore AR team operating mostly in U.S. hours.</p> <p>You’ll be the bridge between accounting and systems, driving automation and ensuring the company’s AR subledger, bank activity, and general ledger remain perfectly aligned. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives at the intersection of accounting precision and process innovation.</p> <p><strong>What you’ll do</strong></p> <h3><strong><em>Close, Reconciliation, and Accounting</em></strong></h3> <ul> <li>Own the monthly AR close end-to-end: subledger-to-GL tie-out, cash application clearing, unapplied and on-account cash, aging roll-forward, and flux commentary against both prior period and expectation.</li> <li>Own the allowance for credit losses: maintain the reserve methodology, refresh the loss-rate inputs each quarter, document the judgments applied, and defend the estimate to external audit.</li> <li>Prepare and review AR reconciliations, including aging of reconciling items, root-cause classification, and a documented clearing plan for anything past threshold. Unexplained reconciling items do not roll forward.</li> <li>Reconcile third-party payment processor activity, including Stripe and other PSPs, to the general ledger: gross settlement, processing fees, refunds, chargebacks, and reserve balances.</li> <li>Prepare and review AR journal entries, including write-offs, credit and debit memos, reclasses, and reserve true-ups, with support attached at the time of posting rather than assembled later.</li> </ul> <h3><strong><em>Controls, Review, and Audit</em></strong></h3>