Job Purpose
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.
Work collaboratively
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.
Xero general ledger knowledge.
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.
Essential
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.
Functional Competencies
Basic financial reporting and reconciliation.
Data handling and analysis (support level).
Contract and compliance awareness.
Assisting with systems and process improvement.
Attention to detail.
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