Revenue Accountant

Description: Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future.

A Fortune leader, we're the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges.

About CDW UK: CDW is a leading multi-brand technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organisations in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and other international locations.

We help our clients achieve their goals by delivering integrated solutions and services that maximise their technology investment.

Integrating new technologies into your organisation demands a careful balancing act; cost, security and competitive advantage all need to be considered as part of a forward-thinking IT strategy.

Main purpose of job:

As the Revenue Accountant, you will be responsible for accurately delivering month-end results, including taking ownership of monthly Hardware and Software revenue.

You will create certainty and confidence in the numbers delivered and communicate risks and opportunities to the business.

Your responsibilities will include:

1. Accounting for Revenue in accordance with both ASC (US GAAP) and FRS (UK GAAP), which includes:
2. Ensuring the standalone selling price within a large volume of transactions has been calculated properly.
3. Investigating new or unusual transactions to ensure they are properly recorded.
4. Analysing gross margin to help ensure confidence in the reported results.
5. Ongoing process improvement to aid in-month and month-end reporting and analysis.
6. Delivering insightful analysis of revenue and gross margin to the Revenue Accounting Manager and Chief Accountant, including reviewing revenue and margin at a customer and deal level.
7. Ownership and maintenance of the Product reconciliation file, an Excel-based financial model which is key for deal analysis and reconciliation.
8. Utilising advanced data analysis tools such as Power Query to extract account records.
9. Communicating and investigating with Sales departments to analyse current deals and ensure postings align with business processes.
10. Communicating with non-finance teams to improve understanding of systems, processes, and commercial drivers.
11. Performing and reviewing SOX controls in a timely manner.
12. Preparing annual statutory financial statements, including supporting files for the auditors.
13. Participating in ad hoc projects as needed, including process improvement and improving commercial understanding.

Knowledge & Experience:

1. Qualified Accountant with 1-2 years of post-qualification experience.
2. Thorough understanding of US GAAP / IFRS, with the ability to distinguish differences from FRS, particularly IFRS 15 / ASC (US GAAP).
3. Advanced Excel skills.
4. Experience handling large volume datasets.
5. Proficiency with using Power Query is preferable.
6. Experience in multi-national US parent organizations is a plus.
7. Familiarity with Navision is preferable but not essential.
8. Proven experience working to tight close deadlines.

Who we are:

CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations across the globe. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from fresh-faced start-ups to international conglomerates.

With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small.

What you can expect from us:

Culture, coworkers, careers. CDW is not only the People Who Get IT but the People who get People.

Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same.

From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together.

At CDW, you'll work with people who inspire you.

People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with.

Bring your best true self—and your best ideas—to CDW.

Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving—and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.