Revenue Accountant

Aptean; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Private medical care

Income protection scheme

Hybrid working

Job summary

Aptean in Sheffield is seeking a part-qualified or recently-qualified accountant to join the UK Finance team. You’ll own revenue recognition for European product lines, analyse performance against budget and prior periods, and liaise with Sales/Account Managers to ensure accurate customer accounts.

Responsibilities include month-end revenue analysis, balance sheet reconciliations, closing procedures, and supporting statutory audits.

Qualifications

• Financial accounting experience in posting journals and maintaining balance sheet reconciliations is essential.
• Advanced Excel skills with professional working proficiency.
• Experience in analysing financial data, identifying and understanding trends.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong prioritization skills and proven ability to meet deadlines.
• ACA/CIMA/ACCA part-qualified preferred.
• Qualified to degree level or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Month-end analysis of recognised revenues by customers, analysing variances to budget and prior periods.
• Liaise with Sales/Account Managers on revenue performance, ensuring accuracy on customers' accounts.
• Ensure that all financial transactions are correctly processed and reflected in the GLs.
• Ensure monthly balance sheet reconciliations are performed, and variances are investigated and reported in a timely manner.
• Adherence to month end procedures and timescales to meet Group reporting commitments.
• Ensure compliance with internal financial reporting requirements.
• Support with Group and local Statutory audits.
• Provide accurate and sound management reporting to assist with key decision making.
• Review accounting processes and practices and improve where necessary to ensure efficient financial operations.
• Support with group acquisition integration work.
• Ad hoc projects as required by management.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Financial analysis

Attention to detail

Deadline management

Education

Degree or equivalent

ACCA/ACCA/ACMA part-qualified

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Sheffield-based UK Finance team to support Aptean’s continued growth in the UK and Europe. This role would suit a part-qualified or recently-qualified accountant with a proactive and driven attitude looking to continue their professional development in a fast-paced environment with a global outlook.

You will beresponsible for the revenue recognition for a portfolio of our European product lines, analysing their revenue performance against budget and prior periods and liaising with key contacts within the European operational business to ensure accurate reporting.

About the role:

• Month-end analysis of recognised revenues by customers, analysing variances to budget and prior periods.

• Liaise with Sales/Account Managers on revenue performance, ensuring accuracy on customers' accounts.

• Ensure that all financial transactions are correctly processed and appropriately reflected in the GLs.

• Ensure monthly balance sheet reconciliations are performed, and variances are investigated and reported in a timely manner.

• Adherence to month end procedures and timescales in order to meet Group reporting commitments.

• Ensure compliance with internal financial reporting requirements.

• Support with Group and local Statutory audits.

• Provide accurate and sound management reporting to assist with key decision making.

• Review accounting processes and practices and improve where necessary to ensure efficient financial operations.

• Support with group acquisition integration work.

• Ad hoc projects as required by management.

About you:

• Qualified to degree level or equivalent.

• ACA/CIMA/ACCA part-qualified preferred.

• Financial accounting experience in posting journals and maintaining balance sheet reconciliations is essential.

• Advanced Excel skills with professional working proficiency.

• Experience in analysing financial data, identifying and understanding trends.

• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong prioritization skills and proven ability to meet deadlines.

What we offer:

• Hybrid working model: 4 days a week in the office located in Sheffield city centre;

• Opportunity to grow within a global software company, which promotes work-life balance;

• Pension scheme;

• Life assurance;

• Private medical care;

• Income protection scheme.

About Aptean

At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow's unique challenges today with unrivaled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean's purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other focused organizations. Aptean's compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.

\"At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company.\" – TVN Reddy

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.