Revenue Recognition and Receivables COE Job in Chicago, IL

Revenue Recognition & Receivables CoE Lead

The salary range for this position is $145,000 - $155,000 plus bonus, and it comes with benefits, including medical, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance.

• Revenue Recognition Governance & Policy Leadership
• Own and maintain enterprise-wide revenue recognition policies, including:
• ASC 606 application across all revenue streams
• Contract and performance obligation identification
• Transaction price determination and SSP allocation
• Timing of revenue recognition
• Variable consideration (including rebates and discounts)
• Extended warranty deferrals
• Contract modification governance
• Pricing validation
• Quantity validation (e.g., scale tickets, batch tickets, delivery confirmations)
• Ensure consistent interpretation and application of policies across all segments.
• Lead governance processes for:
  Standardized contract templates
• Price list management
• Approval workflows for discounts, pricing overrides, and contract changes
• Internal Controls & Audit Coordination Collaborate with the following groups:
• Internal Audit
• External Audit
• SOX/ICFR stakeholders
• Partner with Controls SOX/ICFR teams to maintain and enhance the Revenue Recognition & Receivables Risk Control Matrix.
• Work alongside the Controls SOX/ICFR teams to ensure controls are effectively designed, consistently executed, adequately documented, lead remediation efforts for control deficiencies and audit findings, provide guidance and training to control owners across the organization, standardization & Process Excellence
• Develop and deploy standardized templates, SOPs, and toolkits for contract review and modification approvals, Billing accuracy and controls, Credit evaluation and approvals, Collections and dispute management, Cash application, Rebate and discount calculations, AR aging and bad debt analysis
• Partner with Shared Services to centralize and streamline transactional activities.
• Drive harmonization of processes across business units.
• Lead continuous improvement and best practice sharing initiatives. Receivables Governance & Working Capital Oversight
• Oversee enterprise-wide receivables processes.
• AR reconciliations and write-off approvals Ensure consistent application of Credit policies, Dispute resolution workflows, Aging review procedures, Bad debt reserve methodologies
• Partner with FP&A and Corporate Accounting to support working capital reporting and forecasting. Cross-Functional Alignment & Stakeholder Engagement. Act as the central point of alignment across:
  Commercial Sales and Finance