Revenue Accountant

October 18, 2024

Website Transaction Junction

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 data bases and creating excel upload files into the general ledger to generate the monthly billing run.
  • Working with multiple data bases 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 of which a minimum of 2 years in Fintech.
  • Knowledge of working in reconciliation of VAS settlements
  • 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 questions tasks and find solutions to improvements.
  • Taking mondain process 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