Billing Lead - Finance Operations

Aberdeen Corporate Services Limited; United States; Híbrido; USD 94.000 - 161.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

40 days' annual leave

16% employer pension contribution

Private healthcare

Gym discounts

Season ticket loans

Employee discount portal

Descripción de la vacante

Aberdeen plc is seeking a Billing Lead in Edinburgh to oversee invoicing, collections, and the Billing Helpdesk, while managing on-site and offshore teams. You will own aged debt, drive cash collection, and ensure regulatory compliance across a complex environment.

You will lead a large operational billing function, embedding automation, strengthening controls, and shaping a scalable operating model that supports clients and the business.

Formación

• Extensive experience in Finance Operations Billing within a complex and regulated environment.
• Strong people leadership experience across billing, collections and client-facing support functions.
• Ability to influence at senior levels and drive process improvement.

Responsabilidades

• Lead Billing Operations across invoicing, collections and helpdesk activity, ensuring accurate, timely and compliant outcomes.
• Oversee complex fee calculations, including management fees, recharges, investment management agreement fees, performance fees and rebates.
• Own aged debt and cash collection performance, reducing overdue balances and improving cash flow.
• Lead the Billing control environment, ensuring regulatory compliance, risk management, audit readiness, data integrity and robust balance sheet substantiation.
• Drive the Billing change agenda through process improvement, automation, standardisation and technology-enabled efficiency.

Conocimientos

People leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Regulatory awareness

Data integrity

Financial controls

Risk management

Herramientas

Oracle ERP

Revenue Management systems

Descripción del empleo

This finance operations Billing leadership role is a high-impact leadership opportunity within Finance Operations in Edinburgh. You will oversee invoicing, collections, the Billing Helpdesk, controls, risk management and continuous improvement. Leading seven Edinburgh-based direct reports and an offshore billing team of around 20 colleagues, you will build capability and ensure accurate, timely and compliant outcomes. You will own aged debt, cash collection, data integrity and balance sheet substantiation, while representing Billing at risk, audit and governance forums. The role offers the chance to invest in your tomorrow by shaping a scalable operating model, embedding automation and strengthening a high-performance culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Billing Operations across invoicing, collections and helpdesk activity, ensuring accurate, timely and compliant outcomes.
• Oversee complex fee calculations, including management fees, recharges, investment management agreement fees, performance fees and rebates.
• Own aged debt and cash collection performance, reducing overdue balances and improving cash flow.
• Lead the Billing control environment, ensuring regulatory compliance, risk management, audit readiness, data integrity and robust balance sheet substantiation.
• Drive the Billing change agenda through process improvement, automation, standardisation and technology-enabled efficiency.

Extensive experience in Finance Operations Billing within a complex and regulated environment. Strong people leadership experience across billing, collections and client-facing support functions, including leading multi-layered onshore and offshore teams. Deep understanding of billing processes, complex fee structures, Accounts Receivable and collections. Strong understanding of financial controls, risk management and regulatory requirements. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels. Ability to operate strategically while maintaining oversight of operational delivery and team performance.

Preferred and desirable experience

• Preferred: proven experience managing aged debt and improving cash collection performance.
• Preferred: experience ensuring robust balance sheet substantiation and audit readiness.
• Preferred: proven track record of leading change and transformation initiatives.
• Preferred: experience leveraging automation, systems and process improvements to drive efficiency.
• Desirable: familiarity with Oracle ERP systems, particularly where leading teams that use Oracle in day-to-day operations.
• Desirable: familiarity with Revenue Management systems, particularly where leading teams that rely on these platforms.

Aberdeen plc is one of Europe's largest investment companies, and we are built on a long-standing culture of caring about the future and making a positive impact. Together we invest for a better future. We do it to make a difference to the lives of our clients and customers, our employees, society, and our shareholders. Our business is structured around three distinct areas focused on our clients' changing needs: Aberdeen Investments, Aberdeen Adviser, and interactive investor.

As Billing Lead, you will help bring "Invest in your tomorrow" to life by leading accurate, well-controlled billing operations that support stronger outcomes for our clients and our business.

About the Department

Finance Operations is a core part of Aberdeen's Finance function, delivering services across Record to Report, Billing, Banking, Accounts Payable and Supplier Relationship Management. Within Group Financial Control, the team provides accurate financial outputs, strong controls and valuable insight, working with colleagues in Edinburgh and an outsourced partner in Chennai. Billing supports revenue recognition, regulatory compliance and the integrity of Accounts Receivable balances, helping enable our clients to be better investors.

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Our benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days' annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits - including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas - our vectors of growth - focused on our clients' changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we'd like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen we've adopted a 'blended working' approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture , where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do.

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