We're looking for a motivated Revenue Recognition Project Accountant to join our Finance team on a 6-month fixed-term contract. In this role, you'll play a key part in helping us implement new revenue recognition requirements, working closely with Finance and other functions to ensure a smooth transition from manual processes to automated solutions. This is a great opportunity to apply your technical expertise, collaborate across departments, and contribute to process improvements that will shape the future of our financial operations. What you will bring to the role:

• Run all the relevant reports in both SAP and Salesforce daily and identify areas where orders are not being updated in line with the new procedures
• Maintain a daily error log for revenue postings and produce daily summarised cumulative reports for senior management
• Follow up with the appropriate owner on each item of missing data to ensure it gets populated retrospectively in a timely manner
• Create the appropriate accounting entries for approval
• Work together with the relevant Finance Business Partners, IT Finance Business Partners and sales and operations experts to unblock issues
• Review and update internal procedures and best practice guides, as well as hands-on business support
• Identify and implement lean activities to streamline and simplify processes including being the main finance lead on the project to automate the revenue process
• Provide support for Internal and External Audit
• Ad hoc tasks as required
  
  CIMA / ACCA (or similar) qualified (part qualified considered)
• Relevant accounting experience
• Attention to detail and accuracy is essential
• Excellent numeracy skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong organisation and administrative abilities
• Good Excel skills
• PC literate and confident with integrated business systems. SAP experience would be advantageous
  
  Together we are a powerful and highly complementary combination of market leading technologies.
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