Revenue Accountant

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: