Revenue Accountant

Mission:

• To implement and monitor the revenue cycle in the Revenue management environment.

 
Roles & Responsibilities:

• To collect all relevant information required for revenue-related audits and recommend ways to mitigate/prevent the risk.
• To liaise with CRA auditors regarding CRA audit reports generation and delivering requested templates.
• To liaise closely with Legal , Marketing and Digital teams regarding Content Provider (CP) contractual alignment with required accounting standards, whether locally or internationally.
• To advise required accounting treatment on CPs’ contractual provisions regarding compliance to local and international accounting principles.
• To communicate new IFRS requirements to enterprise stakeholders to reflect their requirements within their contracts.
• To implement month-end/ online billing-charging processes and procedures that encompass revenue.
• To prepare monthly journals, reconciliations, and reports for all value-added services revenue products and prepare all financial reporting related to CP`s Revenue share, check and reconcile CP`s invoice with data warehouse reports and do necessary actions for payment.
• To advise required accounting treatment on CPs’ contractual provisions regarding compliance to local and international accounting principles.
• To monitor all Sales & Distribution (S&D) accounts and calculate connection incentives, also ensure that all S&D queries in this regard are resolved timeously.
• To record and analyze the financial trends (including revenue generation processes and procedures) to provide guidance and recommend changes to enhance revenue tracking.
• To calculate and prepare monthly-prepaid unearned revenue reports.
• To analyze impacts of new GAAP requirements and implement them on financial statements.
• To prepare revenue growth performance dashboard by gathering information from the accounting team.
• To review all distributors’ invoices for logical, physical, and virtual distribution to ensure they are accurate and valid.
• To reconcile between ERP and calculated invoices on a monthly basis and find root causes of non-zero reconciliation, balancing debtors control and inter-company, and curing related clearing accounts.
• To ensure that all accounting entries comply with local and international accounting rules, highlighting the difference in revenue recognition.
• To monitor debtors, identify risks by reviewing the aging report, and take corrective actions to reduce revenue risk / escalate.
• To ensure the accurate and timeous calculations and payments of the License Fee (Revenue Share); providing explanations as required; also using a preset formula to reconcile in terms of actual agreements.
• to comminicate with Tax team to iemplement new tax rules in invoices and prosess.)
• To draw reports from the accounting system to prepare accurate and timeous month-end and year-end reports.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Financial Management / Accounting.

Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in an area of specialization; with experience in supervising others
• Experience working in a medium organization
• Billing-charging system accounting experience is an added advantage

Technical Competencies:

• Financial Administration
• Data Visualization & Presentation
• English Literacy
• Accounting Principles
• Reconciliation
• Local Accounting Standards
• Revenue Management

Behavioral Competencies:

• Leadership
• Innovation
• Relationship
• Integrity
• Can-do
• Customer Centricity
• Agility