Revenue Accountant

Role: Revenue Accountant

Location: Remote

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE:

In partnership with the Finance Business Partners you will play a lead role in delivering rigorous commercial best practice approach to our client work. You will be part of a "best in class" team of commercially minded and client centric revenue accountants that provide proactive support to the business to drive profitable growth. As part of the finance business partnering team, you will provide excellent support to client teams and bring your financial expertise to the table.

You will be reporting into the Finance business partner relevant to your portfolio of clients

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be responsible for the day-to-day financial management of a portfolio of clients. Your specific responsibilities for your clients will include:

Monthly Revenue Reporting

• Consistently deliver in line with all agreed monthly deadlines
• Report accurately and in line with US GAAP (soon to be SOX compliant)
• All intercompany transactions recorded and reported accurately
• Provision of clear and informative explanations to the Business Partner on all material variances between final revenue recognised and previous forecast
• Ensuring all necessary support for revenue recognition is housed within the systems for year-end/client audit purposes

Working Capital Management

• Monthly reconciliations of all working capital balances (accrued and deferred revenue etc)
• Agreement of all balances with client leads
• Escalation of all aged and high-risk items to the relevant business partner to ensure timely actions are taken
• Active participation at the monthly working capital meeting with the CFO

Client Team Support

You will be the day-to-day financial contact for your client leads & as such responsible for:

• Providing excellent day to day support on all aspects of client P&Ls including the rolling full year forecasts
• Providing "super user" support for teams on the financial set up of OMG (bespoke Oliver billing system)
• Running effective weekly WIP reviews with client teams
• Supporting teams in meeting all key monthly cut off dates for revenue recognition
• Generally providing first class financial support to your client teams

General

• Active member of the UK finance team that contributes to process improvements and efficiency enhancements particularly around accurate forecasting each week
• Successfully supporting the driving and adoption of commercial best practice within the business:

IDEAL EXPERIENCE

• Proven experience of working effectively with billing/sales order processing systems
• Can demonstrate ability with understanding and successfully using an ERP system - Netsuite/Adaptive insights experience an advantage but not a necessity
• Commercial acumen
• Proven ability to analyse large volumes of data
• Experience within a professional services agency/business & a passion, enthusiasm for understanding the industry
• Experience dealing with managing revenue from large international customers – including project and asset-based revenue
• Strong working knowledge of UK GAAP and US GAAP
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-pressured and unstructured environment
• Resilient - be adaptive and agile to changing requests and priorities
• Ability to work well with multiple projects and deadlines and delivering in the required timelines

OTHER PERSONAL CAPABILITIES

• Excellent stakeholder management
• Excellent time management skills (deadlines consistently met)
• Commercially minded
• Champions first class internal customer service
• An excellent communicator
• Ambitious, yet collegiate, humble, fair, and balanced
• Very likable, warm and generous
• Strong ethics and integrity – respects diversity