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Job Overview
The Director, Billing & Accounts Receivable Operations provides strategic and operational leadership for claim billing and third-party payer accounts receivable operations across the health system. The Director is accountable for ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant claim submission; optimizing insurance receivable performance; resolving reimbursement barriers; and achieving key revenue cycle and financial performance outcomes.
The Director leads institutional and professional billing operations, claim edit resolution, and payer accounts receivable follow-up while partnering closely with Denials Management to improve denial prevention, resolution, and root-cause remediation. This position collaborates across Revenue Integrity, Patient Access, Coding, Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI), Managed Care, Finance, Information Technology, and operational leadership to accelerate reimbursement, reduce avoidable aging, minimize revenue leakage, and improve overall revenue cycle performance.
Success in this role is measured through key performance indicators including clean claim performance, claim submission timeliness, accounts receivable days, aging distribution, denial prevention and resolution effectiveness, productivity and quality, cash performance, and reduction of preventable write-offs.
The Director is accountable for strategic leadership, operational and financial performance, workforce development, regulatory compliance, stakeholder partnership, and continuous improvement across Billing and Accounts Receivable operations.
Job Requirements
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Health Information Management, or related field required.
- Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Health Information Management, or related field preferred.
Experience
- 7–10 years of progressive healthcare experience required; Revenue Cycle experience preferred.
- 5–7 years of leadership experience required, preferably within a complex healthcare or revenue cycle environment.
- 1-2 years’ Experience with Epic Resolute Hospital Billing and/or Professional Billing operations preferred.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Strong knowledge of healthcare claim billing, reimbursement methodologies, payer adjudication processes, accounts receivable management, and denial prevention and resolution.
- Thorough understanding of Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, commercial insurance, governmental reimbursement requirements, CMS regulations, billing compliance requirements, and payer contract provisions.
- Strong analytical capabilities with the ability to interpret operational, financial, payer, and revenue cycle performance data and translate findings into actionable strategies.
- Demonstrated success leading large or complex operational teams through organizational change, process redesign, performance improvement, and transformation.
- Strong operational improvement, problem-solving, and process redesign capabilities.
- Working knowledge of Epic Resolute, payer portals, claim clearinghouses, reporting tools, and workflow management systems.
- Strong project management and change leadership capabilities.
- Excellent communication, presentation, relationship management, and executive reporting skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Preferred Certifications
- Certified Revenue Cycle Representative (CRCR), HFMA
- Certified Healthcare Financial Professional (CHFP), HFMA
- American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management (AAHAM) certification
Job Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Develop and execute strategic and operational plans supporting organizational reimbursement, cash flow, and revenue cycle objectives.
- Provide leadership and direction to managers and operational teams responsible for institutional and professional billing and payer accounts receivable follow-up.
- Establish performance expectations, accountability measures, and leadership and professional development plans.
- Foster a culture of accountability, engagement, collaboration, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
- Serve as a key Revenue Cycle leader and trusted advisor to executive leadership regarding billing, payer reimbursement, and accounts receivable performance.
- Anticipate emerging operational, reimbursement, regulatory, and payer-related risks and develop strategies to mitigate potential financial impact.
- Promote and model the TriHealth Way of Leading and TriHealth Way of Serving.
Billing & Accounts Receivable Operations
- Direct institutional and professional claim billing operations, including claim submission, claim edit resolution, and third-party payer follow-up.
- Ensure claims are submitted timely, accurately, and in accordance with regulatory, contractual, and payer requirements.
- Establish and monitor productivity, quality, service-level, and financial performance expectations.
- Lead strategies to reduce avoidable accounts receivable aging, accelerate reimbursement, and minimize preventable write-offs.
- Partner with Denials Management leadership to identify denial trends, strengthen prevention and resolution strategies, support appeals processes, and address upstream root causes.
- Collaborate with Revenue Integrity, Patient Access, Coding, CDI, Managed Care, Finance, Information Technology, and operational leaders to identify and resolve systemic reimbursement barriers.
- Develop, standardize, and maintain departmental workflows, policies, procedures, performance standards, and internal controls.
- Leverage data and analytics to identify performance gaps, prioritize opportunities, evaluate root causes, and implement sustainable operational improvements.
Financial & Performance Management
- Develop and manage departmental operating budgets in alignment with organizational financial objectives.
- Monitor labor expense, staffing, productivity, quality, cash, accounts receivable, and overall operational performance.
- Evaluate resource utilization and adjust staffing and operating models based on volumes, performance requirements, and changing business needs.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce cost while maintaining quality, service, compliance, and reimbursement integrity.
- Support organizational cash flow and revenue cycle goals through effective management of billing and accounts receivable operations.
- Establish performance reporting that clearly communicates trends, risks, root causes, financial impacts, and corrective actions.
- Present performance outcomes and improvement strategies to Revenue Cycle and executive leadership.
Workforce Planning & Leadership
- Determine staffing requirements, organizational structure, leadership resources, and capabilities necessary to achieve current and future operational objectives.
- Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain high-performing leaders and team members.
- Establish leadership development and succession plans that strengthen the Revenue Cycle leadership pipeline.
- Conduct performance management activities and ensure accountability for established operational, quality, and behavioral expectations.
- Promote employee engagement, professional development, continuous learning, and a culture of performance excellence.
- Lead teams effectively through organizational, technology, workflow, and process changes.
- Ensure compliance with organizational Human Resources policies and leadership practices.
Stakeholder & Payer Partnership
- Build strong, collaborative relationships with clinical, operational, financial, technology, and Revenue Cycle stakeholders.
- Communicate operational performance, financial risks, reimbursement barriers, and strategic priorities to key stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Support payer escalation strategies involving systemic reimbursement, claims-processing, contractual, or adjudication issues.
- Partner across functions to drive resolution of issues affecting claim submission, reimbursement, accounts receivable, denials, and cash performance.
- Present operational metrics, performance trends, financial impacts, risks, and improvement plans to Revenue Cycle and executive leadership.
- Participate in enterprise-wide initiatives supporting organizational, operational, and financial objectives.
Compliance & Risk Management
- Ensure Billing and Accounts Receivable operations comply with applicable federal, state, payer, contractual, and organizational requirements.
- Maintain appropriate operational controls supporting billing accuracy, reimbursement integrity, and prevention of inappropriate or avoidable write-offs.
- Identify, monitor, and mitigate operational and compliance risks associated with claim submission and payer receivable management.
- Support internal audits, external audits, payer reviews, and regulatory requests.
- Develop and oversee corrective action plans when operational, financial, or compliance risks are identified.
- Partner with appropriate compliance, legal, finance, and operational stakeholders to address identified risks and maintain sustainable controls.
Other Related Information:
Direct Report FTEs = 3-9 Indirect Report FTEs = 100-149 Work Environment: Requires eye-hand coordination and manual dexterity sufficient to operate a keyboard, photocopier, telephone, calculator and other office equipment. Requires normal range of hearing and eyesight to record, prepare and communicate appropriate reports. Requires lifting papers or boxes up to 25 pounds occasionally. Work is performed in an office environment. Contact may involve dealing with angry or upset people. Staff must remain flexible and available to provide staffing assistance for any/all disaster or emergency situations. Able to effectively manage exposure to potentially infectious material per OSHA guidelines.
Working Conditions:
Bending - Rarely
Climbing - Rarely
Concentrating - Consistently
Continuous Learning - Frequently
Hearing: Conversation - Consistently
Hearing: Other Sounds - Frequently
Interpersonal Communication - Consistently
Kneeling - Occasionally
Lifting <10 Lbs. - Frequently
Lifting 50+ Lbs. - Rarely
Lifting <50 Lbs. - Occasionally
Pulling - Rarely
Pushing - Rarely
Reaching - Rarely
Reading - Consistently
Sitting - Frequently
Standing - Frequently
Stooping - Rarely
Talking - Consistently
Thinking/Reasoning - Consistently
Use of Hands - Consistently
Color Vision - Frequently
Visual Acuity: Far - Rarely
Visual Acuity: Near - Frequently
Walking - Frequently
Leadership Performance Standards
TriHealth leaders create a culture of engagement, safety & reliability and high performance by consistently modeling and utilizing the following TriHealth Way leadership competencies, tactics and ALWAYS Behaviors to drive strategic pillar results:
Achievement of Annual Pillar Goals:
1) Safety/Quality, 2) Service, 3) Growth, 4) Culture/People, 5) Finance
Leadership Competencies:
TriHealth Way of Leading
TriHealth Way of Serving
Transformation Change
Drive for Results
Build Organizational Talent
Conduct department huddles. Generally, clinical departments hold daily huddles, non-clinical hold weekly huddles.
Regularly Round on Team Members, using questions from the rounding log.
- 25 or fewer team members = monthly
- 26-50 team members = every other month
- 51+ (and optional team members) = quarterly
Lead monthly team meetings using meeting agenda template; review stoplight report; cascade key leadership messages.
Model, coach and validate team members use of TriHealth Way behaviors (AIDET + Promise, Always Behaviors and Always HEARD).
Recognize team members for safety wins, positive performance and demonstrating SERVE and ALWAYS behaviors, TriHealth Way of Leading, Serving and Delivering Care.
Job Overview
The Director, Billing & Accounts Receivable Operations provides strategic and operational leadership for claim billing and third-party payer accounts receivable operations across the health system. The Director is accountable for ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant claim submission; optimizing insurance receivable performance; resolving reimbursement barriers; and achieving key revenue cycle and financial performance outcomes.
The Director leads institutional and professional billing operations, claim edit resolution, and payer accounts receivable follow-up while partnering closely with Denials Management to improve denial prevention, resolution, and root-cause remediation. This position collaborates across Revenue Integrity, Patient Access, Coding, Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI), Managed Care, Finance, Information Technology, and operational leadership to accelerate reimbursement, reduce avoidable aging, minimize revenue leakage, and improve overall revenue cycle performance.
Success in this role is measured through key performance indicators including clean claim performance, claim submission timeliness, accounts receivable days, aging distribution, denial prevention and resolution effectiveness, productivity and quality, cash performance, and reduction of preventable write-offs.
The Director is accountable for strategic leadership, operational and financial performance, workforce development, regulatory compliance, stakeholder partnership, and continuous improvement across Billing and Accounts Receivable operations.
Job Requirements
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Health Information Management, or related field required.
- Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Health Information Management, or related field preferred.
Experience
- 7–10 years of progressive healthcare experience required; Revenue Cycle experience preferred.
- 5–7 years of leadership experience required, preferably within a complex healthcare or revenue cycle environment.
- 1-2 years’ Experience with Epic Resolute Hospital Billing and/or Professional Billing operations preferred.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Strong knowledge of healthcare claim billing, reimbursement methodologies, payer adjudication processes, accounts receivable management, and denial prevention and resolution.
- Thorough understanding of Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, commercial insurance, governmental reimbursement requirements, CMS regulations, billing compliance requirements, and payer contract provisions.
- Strong analytical capabilities with the ability to interpret operational, financial, payer, and revenue cycle performance data and translate findings into actionable strategies.
- Demonstrated success leading large or complex operational teams through organizational change, process redesign, performance improvement, and transformation.
- Strong operational improvement, problem-solving, and process redesign capabilities.
- Working knowledge of Epic Resolute, payer portals, claim clearinghouses, reporting tools, and workflow management systems.
- Strong project management and change leadership capabilities.
- Excellent communication, presentation, relationship management, and executive reporting skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Preferred Certifications
- Certified Revenue Cycle Representative (CRCR), HFMA
- Certified Healthcare Financial Professional (CHFP), HFMA
- American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management (AAHAM) certification
Job Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Develop and execute strategic and operational plans supporting organizational reimbursement, cash flow, and revenue cycle objectives.
- Provide leadership and direction to managers and operational teams responsible for institutional and professional billing and payer accounts receivable follow-up.
- Establish performance expectations, accountability measures, and leadership and professional development plans.
- Foster a culture of accountability, engagement, collaboration, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
- Serve as a key Revenue Cycle leader and trusted advisor to executive leadership regarding billing, payer reimbursement, and accounts receivable performance.
- Anticipate emerging operational, reimbursement, regulatory, and payer-related risks and develop strategies to mitigate potential financial impact.
- Promote and model the TriHealth Way of Leading and TriHealth Way of Serving.
Billing & Accounts Receivable Operations
- Direct institutional and professional claim billing operations, including claim submission, claim edit resolution, and third-party payer follow-up.
- Ensure claims are submitted timely, accurately, and in accordance with regulatory, contractual, and payer requirements.
- Establish and monitor productivity, quality, service-level, and financial performance expectations.
- Lead strategies to reduce avoidable accounts receivable aging, accelerate reimbursement, and minimize preventable write-offs.
- Partner with Denials Management leadership to identify denial trends, strengthen prevention and resolution strategies, support appeals processes, and address upstream root causes.
- Collaborate with Revenue Integrity, Patient Access, Coding, CDI, Managed Care, Finance, Information Technology, and operational leaders to identify and resolve systemic reimbursement barriers.
- Develop, standardize, and maintain departmental workflows, policies, procedures, performance standards, and internal controls.
- Leverage data and analytics to identify performance gaps, prioritize opportunities, evaluate root causes, and implement sustainable operational improvements.
Financial & Performance Management
- Develop and manage departmental operating budgets in alignment with organizational financial objectives.
- Monitor labor expense, staffing, productivity, quality, cash, accounts receivable, and overall operational performance.
- Evaluate resource utilization and adjust staffing and operating models based on volumes, performance requirements, and changing business needs.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce cost while maintaining quality, service, compliance, and reimbursement integrity.
- Support organizational cash flow and revenue cycle goals through effective management of billing and accounts receivable operations.
- Establish performance reporting that clearly communicates trends, risks, root causes, financial impacts, and corrective actions.
- Present performance outcomes and improvement strategies to Revenue Cycle and executive leadership.
Workforce Planning & Leadership
- Determine staffing requirements, organizational structure, leadership resources, and capabilities necessary to achieve current and future operational objectives.
- Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain high-performing leaders and team members.
- Establish leadership development and succession plans that strengthen the Revenue Cycle leadership pipeline.
- Conduct performance management activities and ensure accountability for established operational, quality, and behavioral expectations.
- Promote employee engagement, professional development, continuous learning, and a culture of performance excellence.
- Lead teams effectively through organizational, technology, workflow, and process changes.
- Ensure compliance with organizational Human Resources policies and leadership practices.
Stakeholder & Payer Partnership
- Build strong, collaborative relationships with clinical, operational, financial, technology, and Revenue Cycle stakeholders.
- Communicate operational performance, financial risks, reimbursement barriers, and strategic priorities to key stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Support payer escalation strategies involving systemic reimbursement, claims-processing, contractual, or adjudication issues.
- Partner across functions to drive resolution of issues affecting claim submission, reimbursement, accounts receivable, denials, and cash performance.
- Present operational metrics, performance trends, financial impacts, risks, and improvement plans to Revenue Cycle and executive leadership.
- Participate in enterprise-wide initiatives supporting organizational, operational, and financial objectives.
Compliance & Risk Management
- Ensure Billing and Accounts Receivable operations comply with applicable federal, state, payer, contractual, and organizational requirements.
- Maintain appropriate operational controls supporting billing accuracy, reimbursement integrity, and prevention of inappropriate or avoidable write-offs.
- Identify, monitor, and mitigate operational and compliance risks associated with claim submission and payer receivable management.
- Support internal audits, external audits, payer reviews, and regulatory requests.
- Develop and oversee corrective action plans when operational, financial, or compliance risks are identified.
- Partner with appropriate compliance, legal, finance, and operational stakeholders to address identified risks and maintain sustainable controls.
Other Related Information:
Direct Report FTEs = 3-9 Indirect Report FTEs = 100-149 Work Environment: Requires eye-hand coordination and manual dexterity sufficient to operate a keyboard, photocopier, telephone, calculator and other office equipment. Requires normal range of hearing and eyesight to record, prepare and communicate appropriate reports. Requires lifting papers or boxes up to 25 pounds occasionally. Work is performed in an office environment. Contact may involve dealing with angry or upset people. Staff must remain flexible and available to provide staffing assistance for any/all disaster or emergency situations. Able to effectively manage exposure to potentially infectious material per OSHA guidelines.
Working Conditions:
Bending - Rarely
Climbing - Rarely
Concentrating - Consistently
Continuous Learning - Frequently
Hearing: Conversation - Consistently
Hearing: Other Sounds - Frequently
Interpersonal Communication - Consistently
Kneeling - Occasionally
Lifting <10 Lbs. - Frequently
Lifting 50+ Lbs. - Rarely
Lifting <50 Lbs. - Occasionally
Pulling - Rarely
Pushing - Rarely
Reaching - Rarely
Reading - Consistently
Sitting - Frequently
Standing - Frequently
Stooping - Rarely
Talking - Consistently
Thinking/Reasoning - Consistently
Use of Hands - Consistently
Color Vision - Frequently
Visual Acuity: Far - Rarely
Visual Acuity: Near - Frequently
Walking - Frequently
Leadership Performance Standards
TriHealth leaders create a culture of engagement, safety & reliability and high performance by consistently modeling and utilizing the following TriHealth Way leadership competencies, tactics and ALWAYS Behaviors to drive strategic pillar results:
Achievement of Annual Pillar Goals:
1) Safety/Quality, 2) Service, 3) Growth, 4) Culture/People, 5) Finance
Leadership Competencies:
TriHealth Way of Leading
TriHealth Way of Serving
Transformation Change
Drive for Results
Build Organizational Talent
Conduct department huddles. Generally, clinical departments hold daily huddles, non-clinical hold weekly huddles.
Regularly Round on Team Members, using questions from the rounding log.
- 25 or fewer team members = monthly
- 26-50 team members = every other month
- 51+ (and optional team members) = quarterly
Lead monthly team meetings using meeting agenda template; review stoplight report; cascade key leadership messages.
Model, coach and validate team members use of TriHealth Way behaviors (AIDET + Promise, Always Behaviors and Always HEARD).
Recognize team members for safety wins, positive performance and demonstrating SERVE and ALWAYS behaviors, TriHealth Way of Leading, Serving and Delivering Care.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Staffing & Recruiting
- Healthcare & Medical Services
- Fashion & Apparel
- Marketing & Advertising
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in accounts receivable associate jobs.
- 1-3 years of accounts receivable or general accounting experience
- Proficiency in ERP or accounting software such as SAP, Oracle, or QuickBooks
- Associate or bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field
- Experience with high-volume invoicing, payment posting, and account reconciliation
- Strong Excel skills including pivot tables and VLOOKUP for aging report analysis
- Knowledge of collections procedures, credit terms, and dispute resolution processes
Tips for Your Accounts Receivable Associate Job Search
Quantify your collections and cash metrics
Hiring managers want numbers. List the average monthly invoice volume you managed, your collections rate, and how quickly you reduced aging balances. Accounts receivable resumes without metrics blend into the pile and rarely move forward.
Highlight your ERP and billing software
Employers filter for specific systems. Call out every platform you've used, whether SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, or QuickBooks, in a dedicated skills section so recruiters and applicant tracking systems catch them before anyone reads your full resume.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists accounts receivable associate openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings that match your AR cycle stage
Some roles focus on cash application, others on collections calls or dispute resolution. Read each posting carefully and tailor your resume summary to mirror the cycle stage the employer emphasizes, whether that is invoicing, aging review, or month-end close support.
Prep concrete dispute and reconciliation examples
Interviewers for accounts receivable roles consistently ask how you resolved invoice disputes and corrected posting errors. Prepare two or three specific examples with the dollar amounts involved, the root cause you identified, and how you brought the account current.
Negotiate by citing days sales outstanding improvements
When discussing compensation, anchor your ask to measurable results. Referencing how much you reduced DSO or improved the aging bucket percentages in a previous role gives you a concrete, defensible reason for the number you are requesting.
Accounts Receivable Associate Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most accounts receivable associates?
IAB Solutions, Onco360, and Alteva RCM are hiring the most accounts receivable associates right now, with openings concentrated in Texas, California, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Healthcare systems, staffing firms, and large manufacturers tend to maintain the most consistent demand for this role.
How many accounts receivable associate jobs are remote?
About 38% of accounts receivable associate openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with remote availability highest in cash application, collections follow-up, and billing support functions. Roles that require hands-on collaboration with the credit or finance team at month-end close are more likely to remain on-site or hybrid.
How do you become an accounts receivable associate?
Start by earning an associate or bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or business, or complete a bookkeeping certificate program to build foundational knowledge. Gain hands-on experience through an entry-level billing clerk, cash application, or administrative accounting role. Learn at least one major ERP system, build proficiency in Excel for aging report analysis, and develop clear written communication skills for customer-facing collections work.
Can you get an accounts receivable associate job with little or no experience?
Yes, many employers hire accounts receivable associates with no direct experience if you can show strong attention to detail, basic bookkeeping knowledge, and comfort with spreadsheet software. Internships, college coursework in accounting, or part-time billing work all count. Emphasize any customer-facing communication experience, since collections calls and dispute resolution are a core part of the role from day one.
What does the accounts receivable associate interview process look like?
Most accounts receivable associate interviews involve a phone screen with a recruiter focused on your software experience and availability, followed by one or two in-person or video interviews with the accounting manager. Expect scenario questions about how you handle disputed invoices, manage high aging balances, and prioritize a large collections queue. Some employers add a short Excel or data-entry skills assessment before extending an offer.
Where can I find and apply to accounts receivable associate jobs?
You can find and apply to accounts receivable associate jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your experience level, industry background, and preferred work arrangement, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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