Billing Specialist

Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.

Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.

About the role:

Liftoff is seeking a Billing Specialist that will help in the development of a world-class receivables operation. This person will work cross-functionally with our Corporate Accounting, Commercial Finance, Deal Desk, Sales, and Customer Success teams to ensure the timely and accurate billing of customers, collections, and reconciliations.  Your attention to detail, adaptability, and process improvement skills will ensure we can provide a great customer and billing experience, while supporting Go-To-Market and Revenue initiatives.

The Billing Specialist will be part of the Accounting Organization and report directly to the Accounts Receivable Manager. It’s an incredibly exciting time for our team, as Liftoff continues to tackle new challenges in a fast-paced, growing environment. Come join us and help grow our financial operations team!

Location:

This role is eligible for remote-first work based in US states where we have an entity. All US timezones eligible.
US office locations: Redwood City (HQ), San Francisco, Los Angeles, Costa Mesa, New York City.

How you will make a difference:

• Coordinate daily billing operations and partner with accounting on revenue recognition best practices to ensure precise billing.
• Assist with the creation and review of our invoices on day 1 every month across multiple Business Units. Requires a working day on the 1st of the month, every month.
• Own completeness and review of all pre-billing activities from opportunity creation to onboarding new customer to our Netsuite ERP
• Map new campaigns generated by our Liftoff platform into our billing systems on a weekly basis.
• Create credit memo records in NetSuite to correspond with Salesforce “Makegood” tickets submitted by account executives.
• Communicate with customers and resolve any disputes or issues related to billing and collections through delegated inboxes.
• Onboard new customers based on fully executed contracts from SFDC into NetSuite
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and lead initiatives to enhance billing efficiency and accuracy.
• Help implement new technologies to streamline billing operations and enhance the customer experience.

Who you are:

• 1-3 years of experience in billing operations, accounts receivable, billing, manual invoicing
• Bachelor's degree
• Intermediate or advanced Excel skills required (Pivot Tables, Index Match, Sum If, etc.).
• Experience with Netsuite, Salesforce, Tesorio, Looker, Tableau, or other leading AR/GTM platforms is a plus.
• Must be able to thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment including ability to remain flexible, be forward-thinking, resourceful, and efficient while interacting with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience in solving multiple and complex challenges through critical thinking and cross-functional collaboration.
• Well-developed quantitative and analytical skills.
• Extremely organized with good project management and time management skills.
• Deep attention to detail, deadline driven, with strong organizational skills, and understands big picture concepts.
• Articulate communication style adaptable to the audience.
• Knowledge of accounting principles and practices.

Liftoff's Compensation Strategy

Liftoff's compensation strategy includes competitive market rate along with equity and benefits and perks that will give our employees what they need to do their best work. In order to ensure teams are compensated fairly for the work performed, we map out specific levels and take into consideration the cost of labor within each location. Liftoff provides employees a total compensation package of competitive market salaries, equity, health and wellness stipends, medical benefits associated with your country of residence. The base compensation will vary based on location, experience as well as level.

The pay range for this position in the US depends on the location and falls in the following zones:
SF Bay Area, New York City, Los Angeles, Orange County: $34-40/hr
Seattle/Olympia, Austin, Boston, San Diego, Santa Barbara: $31-37/hr
All other cities in our approved to hire states: $28-34/hr

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement

Our company does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

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Liftoff is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. Liftoff is further committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender (including sexual harassment, gender harassment, and harassment due to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender nonconformity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, ancestry (including association, affiliation, or participation with persons or activities related to national origin, English-proficiency or accent, or immigration status), physical or mental disability, medical condition(s), genetic information of an individual or family member of the individual, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status, family care status, requesting or taking pregnancy, parental or disability leave, requesting an accommodation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance. All such discrimination and harassment is unlawful and will not be tolerated. Liftoff maintains a continued commitment to equal employment opportunity and expects the full cooperation of all personnel.

Liftoff's Compensation Strategy

Liftoff's compensation strategy includes competitive market rate along with equity and benefits and perks that will give our employees what they need to do their best work. In order to ensure teams are compensated fairly for the work performed, we map out specific levels and take into consideration the cost of labor within each location. Liftoff provides employees a total compensation package of competitive market salaries, equity, health and wellness stipends, medical benefits associated with your country of residence. The base compensation will vary based on location, experience as well as level.

Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:

Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.