Contract jobs in South Africa

Job Purpose

The Revenue Accountant’s role is to ensure that a company’s revenue is accurately tracked, billed and reported, providing transparency for stakeholders and supporting in strategic financial planning.

Accounting

• Compiling the monthly billing process extracting data from multiple databases and creating excel upload files into the general ledger to generate the monthly billing run.
• Working with multiple databases and using Power Query and BI to extract and aggregate the information.
• Reconciling merchant movements at a store and lane count.
• Identifying discrepancies and resolving these with the business to ensure billing is valid, accurate and complete at month end.
• Reviewing contractual terms and conditions for new merchant onboarding ensuring rate cards and discounts are appropriately applied.
• Assisting the finance team with preparing monthly revenue reporting.
• Actualizing monthly reporting that populates the company revenue forecast.
• Working on ad hoc revenue projects and reconciliation and settlement projects for customers.
• Guiding developers on how to process reconciliation and settlement projects to deploy into the tech stack.
• Working on automation tasks to streamline processes to allow the company to scale efficiently.
• Proactively dealing with customers regarding monthly billing.
• Working with AR clerks to manage DSO.

Work Collaboratively

• Build a culture of respect and understanding across the organisation.
• Recognise outcomes which resulted from effective collaboration between teams.
• Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication and collaboration across the organization.
• Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop joint solutions.

Self-Management

• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained.
• Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures.
• Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands.
• Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change.
• Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organizational needs.

Planning Horizon

• Focus on immediate deliverables such as daily revenue reconciliations or weekly billing cycles.
• Constant monitoring of DSO to ensure collections stay on track.
• Short-term problem-solving for billing discrepancies or customer queries.
• Responsibility for monthly revenue reporting and actualizing revenue forecasts.
• Participating in customer or client onboarding processes and ensuring that correct billing and contracts are applied.
• Assisting in the preparation of quarterly reports that influence broader financial strategies.

Minimum Academic, Professional Qualifications & Experience required for this position

• BCom Accounting and/or 10+ years of experience in a similar role of which a minimum of 2 years in Fintech.
• Knowledge of working in reconciliation of VAS settlements.
• Experience as a revenue accountant in a SaaS business and knowledge of calculating MRRs and Net Revenue Retention.
• Knowledge of contract accounting and IFRS15.
• Basics of customer onboarding.
• Xero general ledger knowledge.
• Background in accounts receivable.
• Knowledge of CRM tools like Monday.com and HubSpot would be advantageous.
• Experience working with business processes.
• In office for most of the time with some remote work.
• Own transportation.

Behaviours

• Someone who can question tasks and find solutions to improvements.
• Taking mundane processes and finding ways to improve efficiency and automate tasks.
• Questioning the norm.

Essential

• Advanced MS Office experience including: Excel building complex formulae; Power Query; Power BI and any other database knowledge as well as PowerPoint.
• Self-starter that can get into the detail.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Ability to deal with multiple departments to resolve customer queries.
• Ability to work effectively in a team and communicate clearly.
• Knowledge of IFRS including IFRS15 is a bonus.
• Report writing to complete monthly revenue packs.
• Strong attention to detail in data entry and reporting.

Functional Competencies

• Basic financial reporting and reconciliation.
• Data handling and analysis (support level).
• Contract and compliance awareness.
• Assisting with systems and process improvement.
• Attention to detail.