The Revenue Accountant’s role is to ensure that a company’s revenue is accurately tracked, billed and reported, providing transparency for stakeholders and supporting in strategic financial planning.
Accounting
- Compiling the monthly billing process extracting data from multiple databases and creating excel upload files into the general ledger to generate the monthly billing run.
- Working with multiple databases and using Power Query and BI to extract and aggregate the information.
- Reconciling merchant movements at a store and lane count.
- Identifying discrepancies and resolving these with the business to ensure billing is valid, accurate and complete at month end.
- Reviewing contractual terms and conditions for new merchant onboarding ensuring rate cards and discounts are appropriately applied.
- Assist the finance team with preparing monthly revenue reporting.
- Actualising monthly reporting that populates the company revenue forecast.
- Working on ad hoc revenue projects and reconciliation and settlement projects for customers.
- Guiding developers on how to process reconciliation and settlement projects to deploy into the tech stack.
- Work on automation tasks to streamline processes to allow the company to scale efficiently.
- Proactively dealing with customers regarding monthly billing.
- Working with AR clerks to manage DSO.
- Build a culture of respect and understanding across the organisation.
- Recognise outcomes which resulted from effective collaboration between teams.
- Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication and collaboration across the organization.
- Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop joint solutions.
Self-Management
- Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained.
- Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures.
- Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands.
- Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change.
- Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organizational needs.
Planning Horizon
- Focus on immediate deliverables such as daily revenue reconciliations or weekly billing cycles.
- Constant monitoring of DSO to ensure collections stay on track.
- Short-term problem-solving for billing discrepancies or customer queries.
- Responsibility for monthly revenue reporting and actualizing revenue forecasts.
- Participating in customer or client onboarding processes and ensuring that correct billing and contracts are applied.
- Assisting in the preparation of quarterly reports that influence broader financial strategies.
Minimum Academic, Professional Qualifications & Experience required for this position
- BCom Accounting and/or 10+ years of experience in a similar role.
- Revenue accountant in a SaaS business and knowledge calculating MRRs and Net Revenue Retention.
- Knowledge of contract accounting and IFRS15.
- Basics of customer onboarding.
- Background in accounts receivable.
- Knowledge of CRM tools like Monday.com and HubSpot would be advantageous.
- Working with business processes.
- In office for most of the time with some remote work.
- Own transportation.
Behaviours
- Someone who can question tasks and find solutions to improvements.
- Taking mundane processes and finding ways to improve efficiency and ways to automate the tasks.
- Questioning the norm.
- Advanced MS office experience including: excel building complex formulae; Power Query; Power BI and any other database knowledge as well as Power Point.
- Self-starter that can get into the detail.
- Problem solving.
- Dealing with multiple departments to resolve customer queries.
- Ability to work effectively in a team and communicate clearly.
- Knowledge of IFRS including IFRS15 is a bonus.
- Report writing to complete monthly revenue packs.
- Strong attention to detail in data entry and reporting.
- Basic financial reporting and reconciliation.
- Data handling and analysis (support level).
- Contract and compliance awareness.
- Assisting with systems and process improvement.
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