Revenue Accounting Manager, LST Group

Role snapshot

About LST Group and the opportunity

What you will own

• Own customer invoicing end to end, from load delivery and proof of delivery through invoice release
• Drive accurate, timely billing of linehaul, fuel surcharge and accessorials, and resolve rate and documentation discrepancies with operations and sales
• Manage billing for customer portals, EDI and customer-specific invoicing requirements
• Shorten delivery-to-invoice time and reduce billing errors and rebills

• Lead collections strategy and execution across the customer base, with a clear focus on DSO and past-due aging
• Partner with branch and sales leaders on customer disputes, short pays and credit issues
• Support customer credit review and limits in partnership with finance leadership
• Own the AR aging, bad debt reserve support and month-end AR reconciliations

• Ensure payments are applied accurately and daily across checks, ACH, wires and lockbox
• Clear unapplied cash, short pays and deductions promptly
• Reconcile cash receipts to the bank and the subledger

• Design and document revenue accounting processes, controls and policies where few exist today
• Lead implementation and optimization of Revenova (TMS) and Accounting Seed workflows, integrations and automation for billing, AR and cash application
• Build the reporting on DSO, aging, billing cycle time and cash forecasting inputs that leadership relies on

• Lead, develop and grow the revenue accounting team, setting clear expectations and accountability
• Contribute to month-end close on revenue, AR and cash
• Act as a trusted partner to operations, sales and branch leadership

What you bring

• Freight brokerage experience in billing, AR, collections or revenue accounting. You know how loads, PODs, accessorials and customer disputes actually work.
• Hands-on fluency in Revenova and Accounting Seed, including how data flows between the TMS and the general ledger
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 2+ years leading people
• A track record of building or rebuilding processes and controls, not only running existing ones
• Strong working knowledge of Excel and reporting within Salesforce-based platforms
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or a related field

• Builders who want ownership and are comfortable creating structure where it does not yet exist
• Leaders who hold a team to a high standard and develop people
• Clear communicators who can push back on operations and sales with facts and still keep the relationship

Nice to have

• CPA or progress toward it
• Multimodal experience (truckload, LTL, intermodal, drayage)
• Experience leading a system implementation or migration
• Familiarity with credit tools and freight factoring relationships

What success looks like in year one

• Billing, AR and cash application processes are documented, controlled and owned by the team
• Delivery-to-invoice time and DSO are tracked weekly and trending down
• Unapplied cash and past-due aging are consistently under control
• Revenova and Accounting Seed are automating work that is manual today
• The team is stable, trained and ready to take on a broader scope

Why LST

• A profitable, growing brokerage with long-term ownership
• Real ownership of a function and a direct line to finance leadership
• A hybrid schedule: 3 days in the office, 2 days from home
• A growing Chattanooga presence you will help build