Russell Durrett

Ar Manager, Domestic & International @SBA Communications

Boca Raton, FL, US

SBA is a leading independent owner and operator of wireless communications infrastructure across North, Central, and South America generating revenues totaling $1.5B. Primary responsibilities include: • Managing the day-to-day initiatives of the Accounts Receivable teams.• Leading and directing team members ensuring a timely and accurate month end closing.• Communicate and develop relationships with key stakeholders.• Partnering with various cross functional teams in Accounting, Site Administration, Project Construction, Legal, and IT troubleshooting operations issues while developing & deploying viable proactive solutions.• Lead team projects focusing on process improvements and streaming systems. • Monitor and enforce policies/procedures as outlined in Sarbanes-Oxley Narratives for all faucets of domestic and international AR. Ensure all key controls are being followed. • Ensure key department reconciles are performed and validated.• Report, reconcile, and resolve escalated customer issues.• Leverage technology to advance business processes through RPA.• Identify and convert customers who continue to remit checks or ACH to CTX file formats.• Actively manage AR Aging while directly working as the principal liaison with Site Administration, Tax, Field Operations, and other internal employees as well as external customers.• Perform root cause analysis and implement permanent solutions to eliminate the source of the aging including aged invoices, partial payments, unapplied cash, overpayments, cash re-applications, refunds, etc.• Act as the main Point Of Contact for complex receivable issues.• Timely audit of open aging per specialist.• Analyze delinquent accounts and prepare report on highest risk accounts including recommendations for resolution. • Prepare and distribute Monthly Collection/Aging Reports. • Fulfill all external audit requests.• Work collaboratively with billing team to resolve receivables issues.

University of Phoenix

MBA, Business Administration

Nova Southeastern University

BS, Finance & Business Administration