Vice President, Billings & Collections
Azon is working with a leading global healthcare and life sciences services organisation that is seeking a VP, Billings & Collections to join its executive finance leadership team at its international headquarters in Dublin.
The organisation is a multi-billion-dollar, publicly listed global enterprise employing over 40,000 people worldwide. Following a period of significant transformation, the business is entering a new phase of growth under recently appointed leadership, making this an exceptional time to join.
Based in Dublin and reporting to the Senior Vice President, Finance Shared Services (ExCo-1), this executive will lead a large, globally distributed Billing & Collections function. The role has end-to-end responsibility for billing, invoicing, collections and cash application, with a clear mandate to improve cash performance, controls, efficiency and customer experience.
The successful candidate will define and deliver a transformation roadmap for the order-to-cash cycle, standardising global processes and using automation, analytics and AI to create a more scalable operating model.
Key responsibilities will include:
• Providing executive leadership across global billing, invoicing, collections and cash application
• Improving billing accuracy, cycle times, cash conversion and DSO
• Developing the global collections and working-capital strategy
• Strengthening process governance, financial controls and audit compliance
• Driving standardisation, automation and AI-enabled transformation
• Partnering with senior Finance, Commercial and Operational stakeholders
• Leading the organisational design and development of a large international team
• Acting as a trusted adviser to senior leadership on cash performance and customer-account risk
The ideal candidate will bring:
• 15+ years’ experience across billing, collections or order-to-cash, including senior leadership responsibility
• A proven record of leading large-scale operations in a complex, international organisation
• Deep expertise in working-capital improvement, cash flow and order-to-cash processes
• Demonstrable success delivering process improvement, automation and technology-enabled transformation at scale
• Experience leading geographically dispersed teams within a shared-services or global-business-services model
• Strong financial-systems and digital-optimisation experience
• A consultative approach and the credibility to influence senior executives
• Strong commercial judgement, analytical capability and financial-control awareness
• A relevant Finance or Accounting qualification; a professional accountancy qualification would be advantageous
Location:
Dublin — hybrid working, with an expected office presence of three days per week
This is a significant opportunity to transform a business-critical global function within a complex, purpose-led international organisation.