Revenue Accountant

Impala Terminals; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a detail-oriented finance professional to support the Finance Manager in managing the revenue and cost recording process for transport projects. This role involves ensuring accurate project invoicing, conducting thorough project reviews, and preparing financial reports. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in logistics and freight forwarding, with over 5 years of experience in customer invoicing and rates management. Join a dynamic team where your analytical skills and attention to detail will drive success in a fast-paced environment, making a significant impact on project outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in customer invoicing, rates management, and project reviews.
• Strong systems knowledge and ability to compile and analyze financial data.

Responsibilities

• Manage revenue and cost recording for transport projects.
• Ensure accurate invoicing and timely project closure.
• Prepare weekly and monthly project reviews and financial reports.

Skills

Customer invoicing

Rates management

Project reviews

Attention to detail

Strong communication

Fluency in English

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Qualification in Finance

Tools

Navision

Navitrans

Qlikview

Job description

The Primary function of this role is to support the Finance Manager: Business Process, with managing the entire revenue and cost recording process for all transport projects, including:

• Review projects to ensure correct buy and sell rates are used.
• All projects are invoiced timeously & accurately & in line with quotations / price lists.
• Project (volumes & margins) reported timeously & accurately in line with reporting deadlines.
• Distribution of weekly customer statements & collection of funds.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

• Qualification in Finance.
• Industry experience in logistics and freight forwarding essential.
• Process oriented with a good attention to detail.
• Experience with reviewing PODs and other customs documents.
• Must be able to work under pressure and adhere to aggressive deadlines.
• Highly organised with the ability to prioritise tasks in a fast-changing environment.
• 5+ years’ experience in customer invoicing, rates management and project reviews.
• Strong communicator and fluent in English; Mandarin or French will be advantageous.
• Strong systems knowledge (Navision, Navitrans & Qlikview).
• Experience in project accounting and activity-based costing and analysis.
• Ability to compile, analyse data and prepare financial reports.

Key Responsibilities

Project management:

• Ensure that projects are correctly set up within the system in terms of project SOPs & quotations.
• Ensure that all transport projects are correctly closed off and relevant documents are archived.
• Ensure that vendor debits are recovered on a timeous basis.
• Assist with customer & vendor KYC & onboarding process.
• Ensure that sell & buy rates charged agree to quotations and authorised price lists.
• Review all PODs and related documents for completeness and accuracy before invoicing.
• Invoice projects accurately and timeously.
• Preparation and distribution of weekly customer statements.
• Assist with weekly debtors & WIP reporting to management.
• Liaise with shared services department to ensure that customer receipts are allocated correctly.
• Customer queries to be resolved timeously.
• Assist with overdue debtors collection.

Reporting Responsibilities:

• Preparation of weekly & monthly project reviews.
• Preparation of monthly volume reports.
• Financial year-end close.
• Preparation of other ad hoc reports and analysis as required.

Key Relationships and Department Overview: