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Shayn Thrift

Concord

Summary

Motivational leader and organizational problem-solver with over 9 years of experience managing dynamic invoicing, team building, and customer service skills. Experience stepping into roles and quickly making positive changes to drive company success. Focused on using training, monitoring and morale-building techniques to maximize employee engagement and performance.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager of Billing & Collections

Abacus Group, LLC
Charlotte
11.2023 - 11.2025

Global Managed Service Provider (MSP) focused on the financial services industry; organization scaled significantly through organic growth and acquisitions during tenure. Client base increased from 500 to 900+.

  • Led and implemented billing process improvements that identified and corrected systemic gaps, directly recouping $14K in monthly recurring revenue (MRR) within six months.
  • Optimized billing and collections tasks to accelerate reconciliation completion, enhance process efficiency, and ensure timely revenue recognition.
  • Supported multiple strategic acquisitions by integrating newly acquired billing models into the Abacus environment, mapping legacy invoicing workflows, standardizing data feeds, and incorporating best practices that improved accuracy and reduced post-migration credit memos.
  • Designed and deployed standardized client onboarding and offboarding workflows, ensuring accurate billing across complex service lifecycles, and minimizing revenue leakage caused by incomplete provisioning data.
  • Managed complex, high-touch client billing escalations under tight timelines and limited staffing, balancing accuracy, responsiveness, and client satisfaction while maintaining operational continuity.
  • Continuously reconciled multi-entity, multi-cycle invoices, partnering with operations and account teams to resolve disputes, and maintain long-term client trust.
  • Coached, mentored and trained team members in order to improve their job performance.

Carrier Risk & Operations Manager

Armstrong Transport Group, LLC
Charlotte
03.2023 - 08.2023

A+ BBB-accredited logistics provider focused on operational excellence and customer service; advanced through multiple roles as the company scaled operations and transaction volume.

  • Revamped fraud prevention and carrier risk processes, identifying fraudulent activity patterns, and preventing $75,000 in financial losses.
  • Led the implementation of a third-party compliance platform (Highway), managing carrier onboarding approvals, and compliance workflows for a team of seven.
  • Conducted customer onboarding and credit assessments using Moody’s, Ansonia, and CreditSafe to support informed risk decisions.
  • Reconciled Surety Bond filings to ensure ongoing regulatory and contractual compliance.

Billing Team Lead

Armstrong Transport Group, LLC
Charlotte
11.2021 - 03.2023
  • Managed a team of 15, processing 6,000+ invoices weekly for Fortune 100 clients in a high-volume, deadline-driven environment.
  • Developed and enforced SOPs and performance indicators to standardize quality, throughput, and accountability across the billing function.
  • Led the implementation of a third-party invoicing system, owning project timelines, stakeholder communication, testing, and issue resolution.
  • Managed training sessions for new team members on billing procedures.

Senior Billing Specialist

Armstrong Transport Group, LLC
Charlotte
11.2018 - 11.2021
  • Maintained top-tier processing metrics while supporting a high-volume billing queue with complex customer requirements.
  • Partnered with account leads to resolve discrepancies, manage escalations, and meet client-specific invoicing standards.
  • Identified and implemented workflow improvements that increased efficiency and reduced rework.

Billing Specialist / Accounts Payable Specialist

Armstrong Transport Group, LLC
Charlotte
08.2016 - 11.2018
  • Posted payments, generated financial reports, and resolved account discrepancies accurately and on time.
  • Reconciled vendor invoices while ensuring adherence to internal controls and regulatory standards.
  • Answered customer inquiries regarding billings, payments, account status.

Customer Service & Hospitality

TGI Friday's
Jacksonville
01.2011 - 01.2016
  • Delivered high-quality service in fast-paced environments, building strong communication, multitasking, and customer de-escalation skills.

Education

High School Diploma - Middleburg, FL

Middleburg High School
Middleburg, FL
01.2012

Skills

  • Leadership and people management
  • High-volume billing and revenue operations
  • Client escalation and high-touch account management
  • Dispute resolution and documentation
  • Quality assurance, risk, and fraud prevention
  • Project and change management
  • Data analysis and process optimization

Tools: Microsoft Office Suite (advanced Excel), ConnectWise

Projects

Business Central Migration (2024 – 2025): 

Supported ERP migration through billing requirements analysis, data validation, and invoice workflow mapping to ensure revenue continuity and billing accuracy. Partnered with Sales Operations, Development, Project Management, Procurement, and leadership to identify upstream data dependencies, validate billing inputs, and prevent revenue leakage during system transition.

Tribeca Acquisition (Nov 2024 – Jan 2025): 

Integrated acquired billing data and invoicing logic into Abacus systems, standardizing billing rules, pricing structures, and invoice schedules to reduce post-close discrepancies. Consolidated vendor and pricing data into Excel workbooks to track month-over-month (MoM) changes, analyze variances, reduce billing errors, and shorten billing cycle timelines in a high-volume environment.

Gotham Cybersecurity Acquisition (Nov 2023 – Jan 2024): 

Performed billing process alignment and data reconciliation under compressed timelines, personally rebranding and redesigning Gotham invoice templates to align with Abacus contract terms, billing standards, and client requirements. Ensured legacy invoicing data conformed to Abacus billing rules, reducing invoice discrepancies, rework, and client-impacting adjustments.

Highway Implementation (Jun 2023 – Aug 2023): 

Led operational rollout of third-party compliance tooling, improving carrier onboarding efficiency and risk visibility. Led training and deployed new risk criteria with Account Manager network to ensure new standardized procedures were clear and leave room for continued Q&A.

TransFlo Implementation (Nov 2021 – Mar 2023): 

Supported invoicing system deployment by coordinating billing testing, documentation, and user adoption. Cross-trained onsite and offshore billing teams on a digital document intake platform, reducing invoice submission timelines from manual mail-based processing to digital receipt within 24 hours and improving billing throughput and reconciliation speed.

Timeline

Manager of Billing & Collections

Abacus Group, LLC
11.2023 - 11.2025

Carrier Risk & Operations Manager

Armstrong Transport Group, LLC
03.2023 - 08.2023

Billing Team Lead

Armstrong Transport Group, LLC
11.2021 - 03.2023

Senior Billing Specialist

Armstrong Transport Group, LLC
11.2018 - 11.2021

Billing Specialist / Accounts Payable Specialist

Armstrong Transport Group, LLC
08.2016 - 11.2018

Customer Service & Hospitality

TGI Friday's
01.2011 - 01.2016

High School Diploma - Middleburg, FL

Middleburg High School
Shayn Thrift