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Revenue & Receivables\nManage revenue accounting and ensure revenue is accurately recognised in the appropriate accounting periods.\nMaintain revenue schedules and perform revenue reconciliations.\nMonitor invoicing, collections, receivables, and outstanding balances.\nWork with commercial and project teams to resolve billing and collection issues.\nMonitor revenue performance against budgets, milestones, forecasts, and contractual expectations.\nMaintain appropriate supporting documentation and reconciliations for all bad debt provisions and write-offs.\nReview contracts for potential deals to ensure revenue, tax requirements, billing terms, and project milestones are clearly defined and adequately documented to support accurate revenue recognition and external audit requirements. \n2. Project Finance & Budget Management\nSet up new projects in the finance/ERP system, including project codes, budgets, cost centres, and relevant financial parameters.\nMonitor project budgets against actual expenditure and revenue.\nPrepare regular Budget vs Actual (BVA) reports and variance analysis.\nWork with project teams to explain significant variances and identify potential cost overruns.\nSupport project forecasting, including projected costs, revenue, and project completion positions.\nEnsure project costs are correctly coded, allocated, and supported.\nSupport project close-out and final financial reconciliations.\n3. Investor Reporting & Business Partnering\nPrepare monthly, quarterly, and annual investor reporting in line with agreed requirements.\nMaintain investor reconciliations, schedules, and supporting documentation.\nCoordinate with internal teams to obtain information required for investor reporting.\nRespond to investor financial queries and ensure timely resolution of reporting issues.\nMaintain strong finance business partnerships with investors and relevant stakeholders.\nSupport preparation of ad hoc investor analysis and financial information requests.\n4. Financial Reporting & Reconciliations\nSupport monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes.\nPrepare and review receivables, intercompany, revenue, project, investor, and balance sheet reconciliations.\nPrepare and post appropriate month-end journals, including Revenue, accruals, prepayments, provisions, and reclassifications.\nInvestigate and clear aged or unexplained reconciling items.\nSupport management reporting, financial analysis, and forecasting.\n5. Finance Systems & Workflows\nManage project creation and other finance master data within the ERP/accounting system.\nManage finance approval workflows and ensure transactions follow the appropriate approval processes.\nSupport onboarding of new finance users and coordinate system access and permissions.\nResolve system, workflow, and accounting process issues in collaboration with Finance and IT.\nSupport finance system improvements, automation, and process optimization.\nIdentify opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce manual processes.\n6. Audit, Controls & Compliance\nSupport external, statutory, internal, tax, investor, and other audits across multiple jurisdictions.\nPrepare audit schedules, reconciliations, and supporting documentation.\nCoordinate responses to audit queries and track outstanding requests.\nEnsure compliance with finance policies, accounting standards, approval requirements, and internal controls.\nIdentify control gaps and support implementation of corrective actions.\nMaintain an audit-ready finance environment.\n7. Finance Business Partnership - Revenue\nBuild strong working relationships with Commercial, Project, Operations, and other relevant teams to support effective revenue management.\nPartner with relevant stakeholders to ensure accurate revenue forecasting, recognition, invoicing, and collection monitoring.\nProvide financial insights and guidance on revenue performance, variances, risks, and opportunities.\nProactively identify and resolve issues affecting revenue recognition, billing, collections, and overall revenue performance.\n8. Support on Tax Compliance\nEnsure timely and accurate tax compliance across entities and jurisdictions, including VAT, withholding tax, and statutory filings.\nEnsure tax related transactions are accurately recorded and booked in the appropriate ledgers and accounts \nReview transactions, contracts, and payments for applicable tax implications and ensure appropriate deductions and remittances.\nSupport tax audits, assessments, and queries from tax authorities and external advisors.\nIdentify and escalate potential tax risks arising from projects, contracts, and cross border transactions.\nKey Deliverables\nAccurate and timely revenue recognition and revenue reporting.\nRevenue and collections monitoring.\nProject BVA and financial performance reporting.\nMonthly, quarterly, and annual investor reporting.\nTimely and accurate financial reconciliations.\nEffective month-end and year-end close.\nTimely project setup and financial system maintenance.\nAudit schedules and support across multiple jurisdictions.\nEffective finance approval workflows and user onboarding.\nStrong financial controls and compliance.\nContinuous improvement and automation of finance processes.\nQualifications & Experience\nBachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related field.\nCPA, ACCA, ACA, CIMA, or equivalent professional qualification.\n6-8 years of relevant accounting/finance experience.\nStrong experience in financial accounting, revenue recognition, reconciliations, and financial reporting.\nExperience with project accounting, budget monitoring, and BVA reporting.\nExperience preparing investor or external stakeholder reporting.\nExperience supporting audits across multiple entities or jurisdictions.\nStrong Excel and accounting/ERP systems skills.\nExperience with process improvement, automation, or finance system implementations is an advantage.\nKey Competencies\nExcellent financial communication skills, with the ability to analyse and interpret numbers, clearly articulate the story behind financial performance, and communicate complex financial information, trends, variances, risks, and opportunities effectively to both finance and non-finance stakeholders through strong written and verbal communication. \nStrong technical accounting and analytical skills.\nExcellent attention to detail and accuracy.\nStrong commercial and business partnering mindset..\nStrong problem-solving and decision-making ability.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.\nHigh level of ownership, accountability, and integrity.\nProactive approach to identifying and resolving financial issues.\nContinuous improvement mindset.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7312,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Insurance"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-24T19:41:59Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":42,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-25T02:03:49Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/pula-senior-accountant","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/pula-senior-accountant.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-25T02:03:49Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2127,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":2873,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-26T00:00:00Z"}}}