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Audit Recovery Specialist

Position Title: Audit Recovery Specialist
Department: Operations
Location: San Jose, CA
Days:  Monday – Friday 
Hours:  7:00AM to 3:30PM

Position Summary:

The Audit Recovery Specialist role is to request, analyze and process financial documents on behalf of our clients to identify discrepancies which result in lost profits for our customers. This position involves direct communication with vendors, analysis and processing of vendor reports, verification of specific credit information, retrieval of supporting documentation, and follow up with client contacts to ensure processes are completed.  Audit Team Members work directly with our clients and Account Management team to help ensure confidence in the strategic services we deliver. 

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Meet or exceed daily, weekly, monthly assigned goals and objectives
Required Skills:

• Ambition - interested in personal growth and Company success 
• Strong communication skills – verbal (including excellent phone skills) and written
• Ability to effectively work with high volumes of detailed information
• Organizational skills - multi-tasking, prioritizing and problem-solving
• Ability to work both independently and within a team while taking ownership for results 
• Professional and reliable performance history
• Call Center experience
• Microsoft applications: Excel, Outlook, and Word 
• BACKGROUND CHECK REQUIRED

Desired Skills:
• Recovery/Statement Audit experience 
• Accounting Background- A/R or A/P 
• Customer Service 

Competencies:
Facilitating Change - Encourages others to embrace opportunities for different and innovative approaches to addressing problems and opportunities.  Facilitating the implementation and acceptance of changes across organizationGaining Commitment - Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; modifying one’s own behavior to accommodate varying situations and individuals involvedLeading through vision and values – Keeps the organization’s vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action plans

Lavante seeks individuals who represents outstanding credentials and demonstrated accomplishments, but as importantly, who serves as a model for business-building and collaborative-operating skills.  Lavante is an equal opportunity employer.  All offers include a highly-competitive compensation package consisting of base, bonus, 401-K, stock-options and health benefits

Reply to: careers@lavante.com

Senior Manager, Duplicate Payment Audit

Position Title: Senior Manager, Duplicate Payment Audit
Department: Operations
Location: San Jose, CA

Position Summary:
The Senior Manager, Duplicate Payment Audit will lead the Company’s refinement and growth of its audit activities focused on identifying and resolving transactional errors in Purchasing card activity and duplicate payments through Accounts Payable.  This leader will be tasked with the management of this aspect of Lavante’s recovery audit process.  The management of Lavante strongly believes that the prospects of the Company can provide an enviable opportunity for the right candidate.  Additionally, the team values its formative culture such that the individual offered this opportunity needs to embrace and enhance the developing personality.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Work directly with Senior Management and cross functional teams to define, develop, and build our “duplicate payment audit” products and procedures
• RInterface with Engineering to systematize adjustments to the search algorithms in pursuit of continuous improvements in audit performance
• Supervise an increasing staff in operating the duplicate payment audit process
• Review findings in order to assure accuracy and to tune the approaches for the identification of potential duplicate payment errors
• Interface with clients to present, explain and market the results of the duplicate payment audit activity

Required Skills:

• Minimum five years of relevant experience, preferably in an established recovery audit firm
• Thorough understanding of the Accounts Payable process in large (Fortune 1000) corporations, either from an audit or a transactional processing perspective
• Some experience in ERP data base structure, query and file transport
• Proven track record in a high growth environment, including expanding supervisory responsibilities
• Must understand the resource constraints of a startup, and be flexible and adaptable
• Able to recruit, hire, inspire, and retain highly skilled and diverse talent
• Able to complement the existing team and fit into our participatory/contributory corporate culture, where a premium is placed on integrity, ownership and accountability
• A hands-on approach to the development of the organization and operational deliverables is key
• Results orientation, with emphasis on creativity /thought leadership
• Collaborative team player with genuine interest in the cross-functional agenda
• Strong work ethic; high energy; an innovative problem-solver and “hands on” contributor
• Decisive, with a strong ability to prioritize
• Excellent communications skills

Desired Skills:

• Given the stage of maturity of this organization, previous successful startup experience is highly desired
• Experience with and detailed understanding of variables in the Procure-to-pay process in medium to large companies

Competencies:

• Facilitating Change - Encourages others to embrace opportunities for different and innovative approaches to addressing problems and opportunities. Facilitates the implementation and acceptance of changes across our organization
• Gaining Commitment - Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; modifying one’s own behavior to accommodate varying situations and individuals involved
• Leading through vision and values – Keeps the organization’s vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action plans

Lavante seeks individuals who represents outstanding credentials and demonstrated accomplishments, but as importantly, who serves as a model for business-building and collaborative-operating skills. Lavante is an equal opportunity employer. All offers include a highly-competitive compensation package consisting of base, bonus, stock-options and health benefits.

Product Manager – Supplier Information Management

The Position Title: Product Manager – Supplier Information Management
Department: Marketing 
Location:  San Jose, CA

Position Summary:
Our marketing team is building out the Lavante product management team. We’re looking for an experienced product manager with a proven track record of driving new product capabilities from initial product concept to successful delivery and market adoption.  This role has a key responsibility for guiding the future of Lavante’s newest product, Supplier Information Management (SIM) and driving market leadership.

The Product Manager for SIM will meet with customers, prospects and industry analysts to discuss product requirements and the product roadmap. The right candidate will have the ability to analyze competitive products in the market to understand capabilities and differentiation.  This position will drive product requirements and work with the Lavante development team to deliver a world class on-demand supplier information management application driven by customers, prospects, advisor teams and internal industry experts.  The Product Manager – Supplier Information Management will also be responsible for product roll-out, both internally and externally.  This job is for experienced Product Managers who thrive in a fast paced, collaborative start-up environment.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for end-to-end product lifecycle of Lavante SIM.  This includes market needs,   product vision and roadmap, release planning, requirements gathering, functional               specification, product roll-out and validation, through customer enablement and success 

• Work closely with user experience, development, QA, documentation and other product team members to execute SIM product strategy and releases using an agile development methodology

• Collaborate across the Lavante organization, including sales, account management, operations, product development, marketing and management team to align the organization on product functionality, release capabilities and product roadmap

• Own and drive feature delivery end-to-end: writing requirements and use cases, working with user experience to create user scenarios and wireframes, working with development, documentation and QA to deliver a marketable product on time

• Drive product requirements from a customer and user driven approach

• Maintain ongoing knowledge of competitive product offerings and functionality 

• Engage with customers and prospects for requirements gathering, feature requests, roadmap input and product validation and acceptance 

• Represent Lavante as a domain and product expert at customer interactions, industry and corporate events 

Required Skills/Experience:

• High energy and passion for product management

• 3-5 years of product management experience, SaaS experience is a strong plus

• Ideally, experience is supply chain, procurement and or financial software applications

• Demonstrated experience in gathering and transforming business requirements into a           successful product roadmap and application 

• Strong organizational skills, excellent written and oral communication skills, including           experience in high-level business discussions

• Experience with agile development methodologies is a plus

• Proven ability to deliver on commitments

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical thinking skills

• Bachelor’s degree, MBA is a plus

Competencies:

Facilitating Change - Encourages others to embrace opportunities for different and innovative approaches to addressing problems and opportunities.  Facilitating the implementation and acceptance of changes across organization

Gaining Commitment - Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; modifying one’s own behavior to accommodate varying situations and individuals involved

Leading through vision and values – Keeps the organization’s vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action plans

Lavante seeks individuals who represents outstanding credentials and demonstrated accomplishments, but as importantly, who serves as a model for business-building and collaborative-operating skills.  Lavante is an equal opportunity employer.  All offers include a highly-competitive compensation package consisting of base, bonus, stock-options, 401-K and health benefits.  

We are always looking for competent and qualified individuals to work with us 

at any of our locations. Please send all resumes to: careers@lavante.com