Senior Director, Billing & Client Invoicing

Wheels
  • Schaumburg, Illinois
    14 days ago

    Job Description

    Job Description:

    We are seeking an experienced and highly disciplined Senior Director of Billing & Client Invoicing to lead a critical function within our fleet leasing and services business. This role is responsible for the accurate, timely, and client-tailored billing of a complex, multi-service offering across a large and diverse customer base.

    Our business supports approximately 2,000 clients and manages 800,000 leased vehicles, delivering a range of services including maintenance, glass, fuel, telematics, and rental solutions. Billing is a strategic touchpoint with our clients and requires precision, flexibility, and strong operational leadership.

    KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
    • Leadership & Team Management
      • Lead, coach and develop a multi-layered billing and invoicing organization spanning billing operations, client invoice configuration, dispute resolution and billing enablement functions.
      • Establish clear performance expectations, KPIs, and accountability standards
      • Foster a culture of accuracy, responsiveness, and continuous improvement
    • Billing Operations
      • Oversee the end-to-end billing process, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness
      • Manage high-volume, multi-line invoicing across leasing and ancillary service offerings
      • Ensure proper revenue capture and alignment with contractual terms
    • Invoice Design, Technology & Governance
      • Design and deliver customized invoice formats, including EDI and bespoke client-specific layouts, while maintaining standardization, accuracy, and scalability
      • Own the end-to-end intake, prioritization, sequencing, and delivery of invoice customization requests, aligning implementation timelines with contractual scope, client readiness, and financial objectives
      • Establish and enforce clear standards for invoice scope control, post-implementation enhancements, and change management to prevent uncontrolled complexity, billing delays, and downstream AR impact
      • Provide functional leadership and governance over billing technology, including EDI, invoice integrations, and billing-related data processes, ensuring priorities, design decisions, and delivery timelines support enterprise financial goals
      • Partner with Sales, Client Management, Client Services, and Client Onboarding to onboard new clients with complex invoicing needs while setting clear expectations around scope, sequencing, and go-live requirements
      • Establish enterprise billing standards and controls across upstream operational and product teams whose transactions ultimately flow to client invoices.
      • Partner with cross-functional leaders to identify, remediate, and prevent transaction quality issues that drive billing errors, rework, client disputes, and AR delays, even where teams do not formally report into Billing.
      • Leverage systems, automation, and data controls reduce manual effort, improve billing accuracy, and support scalable growth without compromising control or client experience.
      • Serve as the enterprise decision authority for billing standards, invoice design, ensuring products and services are billing-ready before being scaled.
    • Controls & Compliance
      • Establish and maintain strong internal controls over billing accuracy, revenue recognition and invoice completeness.
      • Ensure billing practices, invoice design decisions, and process changes do not negatively impact accounts receivable performance, dispute rates, or cash application, and proactively identify risks to timely cash collection.
      • Support audit requirements and maintain documentation standards
      • Monitor and resolve billing discrepancies and client inquiries
    • Cross-Functional Collaboration
      • Work closely with Finance, Operations, Sales, and Client Services
      • Act as a key liaison for billing-related client escalations
      • Supporting broader finance transformation and process improvement initiatives

    Leadership Responsibilities Strategy
    • Motivate a high-performing billing team with strong ownership and accountability

    COMPETENCIES - SKILLS
    • Excellent communication skills
    • Team Management skills

    EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
    • 10+ years of progressive experience in accounting, finance, billing, revenue operations, or order-to-cash environments
    • Proven leadership experience managing teams in high-volume, complex billing environments
    • Experience with contract-based, multi-service invoicing (leasing, usage-based, or subscription models preferred)
    • Strong understanding of billing systems, ERP platforms, and data str

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSchaumburg, Illinois

    Skills

    • Accountingunmatched
    • Accounts Receivableunmatched
    • Automationunmatched
    • Automotive Repair and Maintenanceunmatched
    • Billingunmatched
    • Business Supportunmatched
    • Cash Applicationsunmatched
    • Change Managementunmatched
    • Coachingunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Continuous Improvementunmatched
    • Cross-Functionalunmatched
    • Customer Escalationsunmatched
    • Customer Experienceunmatched
    • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
    • Documentation Standardsunmatched
    • ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
    • Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)unmatched
    • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
    • Financeunmatched
    • Financial Operationsunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Onboardingunmatched
    • Order to Cashunmatched
    • Partner Salesunmatched
    • Performance Metricsunmatched
    • Process Improvementunmatched
    • Product Designunmatched
    • Reconciliationunmatched
    • Rentalsunmatched
    • Revenue Recognitionunmatched
    • Risk Analysisunmatched
    • Salesunmatched
    • Sales Managementunmatched
    • Team Lead/Managerunmatched
    • Time Managementunmatched

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