Senior Accounts Receivable Specialist

Senior Accounts Receivable Specialist

Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail that enables the seamless, global money movement acy banking and payment infrastructure struggles to support the demands of today's low-volume, high-velocity payouts, leading to inefficiencies in global payouts. Businesses worldwide send over $20 trillion annually in rewards, remittances, and disbursements often incurring costs of up to 50% per transaction and subjecting recipients to lengthy delays.

Runa transforms this landscape by providing a new digital payments infrastructure that empowers businesses to send digital money instantly and cost-free to anyone, anywhere. The Runa API empowers thousands of businesses to make payments to 5 billion+ consumers in 190+ countries instantly to cards, wallets, bank accounts and gift cards. Leading companies such as Sodexo, Top Cashback, Perkbox, Sweatcoin, Coinbase, and Globe topper rely on Runa to facilitate instant, flexible global payouts to tens of millions of consumers.

As a Senior Accounts Receivable Specialist at Runa, you will be the sole owner of our end-to-end accounts receivable process, playing a critical role in protecting cash flow, improving collections and maintaining a clean, well-controlled ledger as the business scales globally.

This is a hands-on, high-ownership role suited to an experienced AR professional who thrives in a fast-paced, transaction-heavy environment. You’ll take full accountability for invoicing, credit control, dispute management and AR reporting, working closely with Commercial, Finance and Operations teams to resolve issues quickly and prevent them from reoccurring.

You’ll be comfortable operating independently, prioritising effectively during peak volume periods, and communicating confidently with customers and internal stakeholders to drive timely payment and strong cash outcomes.

• Owning the accounts receivable ledger end-to-end, with full accountability for invoicing accuracy, collections and overdue debt.
• Raising, issuing and managing customer invoices accurately and on time, ensuring billing is complete and properly supported.
• Driving proactive, structured credit control and collections activity, using the right tone and escalation to resolve overdue balances.
• Acting as the primary point of contact for customer invoicing queries and disputes, managing them professionally from investigation through to resolution.
• Partnering closely with Account Managers, Sales and internal teams to unblock billing issues and accelerate cash collection.
• Using data and reporting to identify overdue drivers, dispute themes and collection risks, and taking action to resolve root causes.
• Maintaining a clean, well-controlled AR ledger through accurate cash application, reconciliations and documentation.
• Supporting month-end close, AR reporting, audit requests and cash forecasting inputs with precision and reliability.
• Improving AR processes, controls and system workflows to support scale, automation and accuracy as Runa grows.

• Proven experience in an Accounts Receivable or Credit Control role, ideally in a B2B, fintech or fast-scaling environment.
• Demonstrable experience owning AR and collections end-to-end, including dispute management and escalations.
• Comfort operating as the sole owner of an AR ledger, managing competing priorities during high-volume periods.
• Strong understanding of AR controls, reconciliations and reporting, with a clear focus on accuracy and clean ledgers.
• Experience working with finance systems and ERPs (Net Suite desirable but not essential) and CRM tools such as Salesforce.
• Strong Excel skills and confidence working with data to produce clear, reliable AR reporting.
• A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset, with the ability to identify issues early and prevent reoccurrence.
• Confident, professional communication skills, with the ability to handle difficult customer conversations constructively.
• High attention to detail, strong organisation and a sense of ownership in everything you do.

🏢 We have a hybrid structure with the requirement of 2 days a week at our London Office…