Accounts Director Job Description
Accounts director
provides market insights across all therapeutic areas by leveraging in-depth knowledge of Market Access ( Payer, IDN, Trade) landscape, healthcare reform, claims data and managed care data.
Accounts Director Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Responsible for developing and executing the go-to-market strategy for the segments covered
Propose market approach to account base and gain approval for all necessary resources
Identify and update, regularly, the target accounts for both the Director and the team
Ability to effectively communicate, influence and develop relationships with executives within the targeted corporate accounts
Work with Marketing and Engineering to maintain and build strong market and competitor intelligence enabling high quality presentations and effective value propositions
Oversee the preparation and negotiation of quotations for projects from targeted accounts
Play active role prospecting targets and promoting KPS in the trade (events and associations)
Identify grow and forecast accurately all revenue in transactions value over $50k
Keep the team focused in the development of multiple end customers and prospects in the geographic region
Manage and lead the Accounts Payable staff, overseeing global processing of invoices, providing high level of customer service, monitor key processing metrics
Accounts Director Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Accounts Director
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Education for Accounts Director
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Employers hiring for the accounts director job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Business, Education, MBA, Marketing, Accounting, Management, Finance, Business/Administration, Graduate, Healthcare
Skills for Accounts Director
Desired skills for accounts director include:
Contracting and contract negotiations
Clinical and IT applications
Healthcare provider economics
Healthcare reform
PowerPoint
Word
Excel and PowerPoint
Market trends
Internet navigation
K12 market
Desired experience for accounts director includes:
Oversee team responsible for execution of payments related to invoices and expense reports across the globe, ensuring transactions are executed within compliance of established key controls
Proactively communicate and foster strong working relationships with key stakeholders including external suppliers, internal business units, Internal Audit and SOX teams, and Treasury
Report to Senior Management and key stakeholders on various benchmarks of the Payables function against industry standards, identifying and monitoring key performance metrics
Manage month end general ledger close process, including closing payables modules across multiple entities as part of each month end close
Proven experience in identifying, designing and implementing process improvements related to the accounts payable and billing process and associated systems enhancements to support those changes
Strong leadership skills with experience in managing A/P staff or other finance groups in a shared service center or similar environment demonstrating the ability to actively participate in continuous improvement activities to exceed customer expectations and help promote a professional organization
Accounts Director Examples
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Accounts Director Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of accounts director. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for accounts director
- Manage and oversee all Medicaid, Medicare, managed care and all other third-party billing for all inpatient and outpatient programs using current billing systems
- Monitor billing procedures to ensure that we are in compliance with third party billing regulations and vendor requiems
- Reach billing targets system-wide
- Supervise, establish metrics, and conduct evaluations of Medicare and Medicaid billing staff
- Select, hire, train and supervise Accounts Receivable staff in payment operations
- Train staff on the methods to handle electronic billing/payments/remittance uploads from billing system
- Resolve electronic submission issues and work in collaboration with Financial Analyst
- Responsible for Customer Value Creation by facilitating and accelerating the business relationship based upon an understanding of the customer
- Collaborates with the customer with an executive general management approach, bringing strategic value opportunities to the customer that span the capabilities of the Coca-Cola system across the enterprise (inclusive of Commercial Leadership, Supply Chain, Field Execution, Brands, Bottler )
- Manage, mentor and develop Accounts Payable staff of 10
Qualifications for accounts director
- A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in any of the Finance disciplines
- Must be well organized, detail oriented, with the ability to multi-task and meet tight deadlines
- Typically 3+ years in digital distribution
- Detailed knowledge of existing digital entertainment business including key global accounts, usage models, and capabilities
- Experience gained in digital content distribution within a digital, Home Entertainment, content licensing or other company engaging in digital licensing
- Good understanding of challenges of working with wide variety of different territories
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Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of accounts director. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for accounts director
- Develop process and procedures and identify inefficiencies
- Resolve conflicts with vendors and work closely with other departments to solve key AP and accounting issues
- Manage all vendor payments, travel and expense reimbursements, and the Institute's Travel program
- Responsible for audit and compliance requirements which include reporting for the State of Georgia Continuous Audit, open records reporting and compliance review for Federal and State regulatory submissions, sales tax management, 1099 and 1042 Federal reporting requirements
- Organize and assign accounts payable staff functions
- Develop, implement and maintain systems, procedures and policies related to disbursements
- Oversee preparation of management reports
- Research, analyze and resolve more complex payment and vendor issues
- Advise management on specific issues related to accounts payable and travel reimbursements
- Act as administrator of Concur to ensure continuous interface and workflow between Concur and various internal systems
Qualifications for accounts director
- Knowledge of GAAP and international AP requirements
- Review and monitor all AP expenses to ensure accurate recording
- Ensure payments are properly and timely executed, and identify and resolve payment failures in a timely manner
- Perform monthly review of outstanding payables in the AP module
- Provide ongoing support, training, mentoring, and development to the AP team of six to ensure the department performs efficiently
- Create and maintain master vendor file
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for an accounts director. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for accounts director
- Oversee month, quarter, and year-end closing process that pertain to disbursements
- Oversee all treasury/cash management activities to ensure all corporate disbursements and various distributions are properly approved and accurately disbursed
- Assist in forecasting cash expenditures to ensure adequate availability of capital for day-to-day operations
- Manage corporate banking relationships and act as administrator for all corporate banking portals
- Manage weekly ACH and Check Runs
- Manage Ad hoc requests for clients when needed
- Distribute weekly check register and AP Aged reports
- Ensure the confidentiality and security of all Accounts Payable files
- Manage the workflow of invoices
- Provide software and AP workflow trainings to clients and internal staff
Qualifications for accounts director
- Exceptional presentation and consultative sales skills
- Degree in Science/Food Science or an equivalent technical subject
- An outstanding track record in B2B sales within a large, international, matrix organisation
- The ability to develop lasting relationships at an executive level
- A willingness to travel extensively to visit customers across ANZ
- Minimum of 7 years of leadership level experience in the CRO, CDMO, pharmaceutical, biologic/biotech, or medical device industries which may include district management, specialty account management, marketing management, and/or product management experience or the equivalent
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for an accounts director. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for accounts director
- Manage month-end and fiscal year end closing
- Optimize trade spending and driving profitable volume growth
- Utilizing trade funds to drive activity and increase market share in key categories
- Drive category management ownership at distribution
- Support customer’s marketing, supply chain, and digital programming initiatives
- Communicate and coordinate volume driving programs with Kerry Sales and marketing teams
- Profitably expand branded and private label offerings within distribution
- Drive understanding and best practices at distribution with Kerry foodservice sales team
- Develop direct report(s) and broaden knowledge of optimizing distributor opportunities
- Deliver sales and BOP targets, and drive slotting and turnover of Kerry products
Qualifications for accounts director
- Reside within close proximity to Frontage HQ
- Experience working with Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains)
- Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy in processing and posting vendor invoices
- Ability to maintain confidentiality concerning client financial files
- Ability to use standard office equipment to include adding machines, copiers, fax machines
- Minimum 10+ years of Accounts Payable experience and management experience
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for an accounts director. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for accounts director
- Demonstrate the ability to gather information in a way that will assist in developing relationships with key executives and influencers of contract decisions
- Responsible for developing improvement and strategic plans for areas of responsibilities
- Directs and leads integration activities for Account Payable in M&A process
- Directs activities to ensure systems and controls are in place as outlined in policy and procedure manuals
- Resolves escalated internal and external customers issues
- Actively participates in Financial Shared Services organization planning and development activities
- Provides direction/oversight in handling legal actions and bankruptcies, to include working with internal and external counsel collection agencies
- Responsible for forecasting, budgeting, accruals and variance explanations for assigned accounts
- Contribute to the development, growth and value of direct reports through leadership, coaching, training, and performance evaluation
- Guide the Supplier development of fiscal objectives for brands, accounts, and markets
Qualifications for accounts director
- Experience with Concur, Dynamics AX and Excel software
- Experience with international AP requirements specifically VAT
- Demonstrated ability to lead with sense of urgency
- Managing commercial strategies and building multi-level relationships with major customers
- Previous experience of benchmark concepts and practices in key account management
- Knowledge of products, technologies, end markets served, trends, and regulatory issues / requirements