Revenue Project Accountant, Sophos

• This critical role is best suited to a qualified accountant who has significant experience and an interest in how accounting systems work
• They should have experience of the Zuora Revenue system (or similar) and have a knack at speaking to both accountants, as well as IT, data and especially project teams
• The individual should have a keen interest in understanding end-to-end transaction flows and transformation in a diversified systems stack
• The candidate should have excellent communication skills and be able to interact with a broad range of colleagues across multiple departments, preferably they will have experience on medium to large scale projects
• The successful candidate will be someone who can speak on technical IT systems as well as technical accounting language and will likely be a bit of a spreadsheet/Power BI guru
• Qualified accountant
• At least 3 years relevant post qualification experience
• Project experience, desirable if implementation/integration projects
• Clear and concise communication skills
• Must be comfortable with analysing large data sets to provide insight
• PowerBI and MS Excel skills
• Zuora Revenue/Zuora Billings (or similar system) experience
• Understanding of IFRS technical accounting for Revenue

Desirable

• This newly created role is a critical one and has been raised to provide key support for the Revenue team on the various projects that they are involved with, primarily the integration project following a recent acquisition
• One of the key aspects to this will be understanding and working with Zuora Revenue, the Revenue automation software implemented as part of Sophos’ recent major transformation project for the Order to Cash process, and a PowerBI based reporting solution
• This individual will be a critical support for both the technical and accounting functions and will break down language barriers between teams
• Sophos strives to be best in class in our technical solutions, so this role will play a key part in driving technical system integrations and improvements whilst remaining Revenue Recognition compliant
• This role will be reporting to the Director of Revenue Operations, and will work closely with the Senior Revenue Systems Accountant
• Liaising and coordinating for the Revenue team on project/s
• Identifying improvements, enhancements and problem solving where issues are found, always ensuring technical revenue compliance
• Being a key bridge between Finance,IT,Business Intelligence and project teams
• Liaising with key colleagues for fact finding, requirements and review of technical solutions
• Documenting/Reviewing User Acceptance Test Cases
• Managing and performing User Acceptance Testing
• Review and improve current processes to increase efficiency and transparency of Revenue
• Documentation for key process changes or new processes
• Collaborate on/perform system reconciliations
• Some holiday restrictions around month end