Global Order to Cash Lead - Revenue Accounting - Bonus & Excellent Benefits - West Sussex (RL6943)

Location: West Sussex
Salary: Competitive
Benefits: Competitive Benefits Package

The Client: Curo are partnering with a global company who deliver their B2B customers cutting-edge technology. They offer a collaborative environment, and benefit from excellent staff retention. In addition to the excellent salary on offer, you will benefit from a bonus and excellent benefits.

The Candidate: This role would suit a candidate with experience in leading a Global Order to Cash process. Exposure to US Accounting regulatory frameworks, and significant experience of strong revenue accounting is key. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of post-qualified experience, and demonstrable experience of developing and leading multiple, geographically dispersed, teams effectively. You will have good knowledge of cost accounting, in particular with the deferral of costs associated with the respective revenue deferral. Process management disciplines such as Lean Six Sigma familiarity, and knowledge of IFRS15 revenue recognition rules, would be ideal.

The Role: Reporting to the Global Financial Controller, the Global Order to Cash Lead is responsible for the performance of the order to cash process globally. A critical aspect to the businesses ongoing success is its ability to effectively manage revenue. Because of this, the role will initially be focused on the operational revenue recognition and accounting, principally in the company's North American based business, but supporting activities globally.

The role will evolve to lead the development of global standardised activities across the Order to Cash process, including customer quotations, credit risk management, order administration and invoicing, revenue recognition, credit collections and sales commissions, with effective performance defined by a suite of KPIs.

The Lead will establish a culture of identifying opportunities for improvement in processes and controls and will work with stakeholders across the Order to Cash process and wider business to realise the benefits from these opportunities. Some flexibility in working hours may be required from time to time to support US based colleagues.

Duties:

• Oversee the Global Order to Cash Process, championing improvements in line with the defined KPIs, partnering with all necessary stakeholders
• Lead the Revenue Accounting, Order Administration/Commissions and Accounts Receivable/Credit and Collections teams
• Apply revenue recognition rules consistently across the organization.
• Ensure all revenue, shipped, recognized and deferred is recorded properly by product, by BU.
• Coordinate the recognizing of revenue globally to fully understand and be able to report revenue, and backlog by region.
• Maintain, review and report backlog by BU.
• Produce revenue reports as required by the business.
• Manage the quarter end revenue calls.
• Prepare revenue forecasts and then track actual revenue to the forecast.
• Review incoming customer PO's for any revenue recognition issues and highlight any issues to management.
• Review customer contracts for any revenue recognition issues as part of the organizations contract review process.
• Become familiar with existing customer contracts as to revenue recognition.
• Become the resident expert and owner of the revenue recognition software (Apttus).
• Ensure cost of sales aligns with shipped and recognized revenue and deferred costs aligns with deferred revenue.
• Some travel required.

Requirements:

• 5+ Years post qualified Experience
• Prior experience of leading a global order to cash process
• Exposure to US Accounting regulatory frameworks
• 5+ years of strong revenue accounting experience required and proficiency in cost accounting a plus.
• Demonstrable experience of developing and leading multiple, geographically dispersed, teams effectively
• Experience in a process driven environment, such as Shared Services or Outsourcing
• Knowledgeable of cost accounting, in particular with the deferral of costs associated with the respective revenue deferral.
• Experience with software revenue recognition rules required.
• Excellent advanced proficiency in Excel required.
• Familiarity with process management disciplines such as Lean Six Sigma
• Knowledge of IFRS15 revenue recognition rules.

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