Accounts Receivable & Deductions Manager

Amylu Foods is hiring an Accounts Receivable & Deductions Manager to join us at our Fulton Market location.

This is an onsite role and requires being in the office four days per week.

Amylu Foods is a Female founded, high-growth, natural CPG company with over a century of tradition rooted in using fresh ingredients and hand-crafted recipes.

As the pioneers of chicken sausage, we blend innovation with experience, bringing bold, fresh flavors to the table.

From our Chicago roots, we've grown into a passionate, dedicated team of food enthusiasts, leading the category with our creative recipes, small-batch production, and constant flavor innovation.

Celebrating over 100 years of culinary craftsmanship, we're expanding our offerings and distribution nationwide, launching new and exciting products that continue to redefine the protein category.

The Accounts Receivable & Deductions Manager is responsible for overseeing billing operations, customer collections, deductions management, and cash application for Amylu Foods.

This role partners closely with Sales, Customer Service, and Finance to ensure billing accuracy, drive timely collections, and effectively manage and dispute retailer deductions.

As Amylu Foods continues to scale its retail and food service business, this role will be instrumental in building out processes and implementing tools as a scalable foundation for the function.

The ideal candidate brings strong analytical skills, sound judgment, and hands-on experience with retailer deductions in a food manufacturing or CPG environment.

• Establish, review, and maintain customer credit limits and terms in accordance with company policy
• Recommend credit approvals, adjustments, holds, and releases in partnership with Finance leadership
• Work with Customer Service to maintain customer account information including validation of pricing and billing terms to ensure accuracy of automated invoicing
• Own end-to-end billing operations, ensuring invoices are generated accurately and transmitted timely via Net Suite and SPS Commerce
• Proactively identify and resolve billing discrepancies, pricing mismatches and EDI transmission errors before they escalation to collections issues
• Lead and execute collections strategies to minimize DSO, reduce past-due balances, and improve cash flow
• Oversee daily collections activities including customer outreach, payment follow-up, and dispute escalation
• Establish and maintain an AR and Deductions dashboard and provide regular reporting on DSO, collections performance, past‑due trends, deductions, and risk exposure to Finance leadership.
• Own the deductions management function – build and maintain a scalable process to identify, validate, dispute and resolve customer deductions
• Partner with the business to evaluate and implement a deductions management platform or tool appropriate for a growing CPG company
• Analyze deduction trends by customer, category and reason code to manage trade spend and identify systemic issues (driving root cause resolution where required)
• Work cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing and Customer Service to validate legitimate deductions and escalated invalid ones for dispute and recovery
• Manage daily accurate application of customer payments, credits and deductions in Net Suite
• Identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities, and internal controls
• Support internal and external audits as required
• Train and develop internal team members on billing processes, collections best practices, cash application and deductions management

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in accounts receivable, billing, collections and/or deductions management
• CPG experience with retailer deductions required
• Prior experience with Net Suite (preferred) and SPS Commerce or similar EDI platforms

• Experience in the food and beverage industry strongly preferred;
• Familiarity with deductions management tools or platforms a strong plus; openness to evaluating and implementing a new solution essential
• Proven ability to manage complex customer relationships, dispute deductions effectively, and drive collections outcomes
• Excellent communication, negotiation and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Self-starter with the ability to build processes from the ground up in a high-growth, entrepreneurial environment

$80,000 - $110,000

Amylu Foods is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran, or disability status.