Senior Accountant

Ziff Davis, LLC; London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the digital media sector is seeking to hire an Accounting professional to manage revenue recognition and daily billing operations. The position requires collaboration across departments and an ability to drive automation initiatives, ensuring timely and accurate invoicing. Ideal candidates are part-qualified accountants with strong collections experience who thrive in fast-paced environments.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in collections and accounts receivable.
• Experience in reconciliations and attention to detail required.
• Must have experience with accounting software systems.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for accurate reporting of revenue for digital media business units.
• Manage cash collection and liaise with sales for billing.
• Assist with statutory audits and process month-end adjustments.

Skills

Attention to detail

MS Excel

Multitasking

Communication

Education

Part qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

Tools

Oracle Fusion

Salesforce

Job description

AccountingRemote - United KingdomLondon,United Kingdom

This position is responsible for handling revenue recognition and daily billing operations for new and existing services. This position will have significant cross-departmental collaboration with the Receivables, Sales Operations, Legal, and Finance teams daily.

This position will require the ability to drive change and contribute to automation initiatives of manual processes to produce consistent, timely and accurate invoices and reporting. P&L experience will prove integral to this role especially for M&A.

Key responsibilities:

Responsible for the accurate reporting of revenue for various digital media business units in the UK and Australia

Responsible for cash collection in those business units

Liaising with the sales teams to manage new customer onboarding, billing and debt collection

Reporting collections and outstanding AR balances to the business and sales teams.

Regular accounting of cash receipts from bank statements

Monitoring of AR aging across the businesses, including a thorough monthly review of aged items and bad debt

Managing monthly invoice upload files to the Oracle system and reconciliation

Issuing manual invoices and credit notes as required

Weekly cash reporting and forecasting as required

Monitor all customer queries, investigate and allocate to the appropriate function necessary & respond to all queries in a timely manner

Complete account reconciliations and process month end write off adjustments

Updating and retrieving reports from Salesforce in order to maintain customer data

Assisting with statutory audits

Processing general ledger journal entries to reconcile and reclassify revenue

Other Ad-hoc duties

Job requirements and Experience:

Part qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) on a path to become qualified.

Strong experience in collections and accounts receivable

Experience of reconciliations and attention to detail are key

Experience using medium/large accounting packages, with knowledge of Oracle Fusion or similar systems a plus

Experience of Salesforce or similar systems a bonus

Must have excellent MS Excel skills,

Ability to multitask under pressure in a fast paced working environment

Ability to communicate with people in the business at all levels

This is a remote/office-based position which may be performed in the UK.