{"id":4015901,"url":"https://alion.io/job/tydeco-financial-accountant","title":"Financial Accountant","company":{"id":687441,"name":"TydeCo","domain":"tydeco.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/tydeco","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":null},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US","ZA"],"hiring_countries_total":2,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Asana","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Excel","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-10T12:40:04Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-10","last_verified_at":"2026-11-10T12:40:04Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"We are seeking a hands-on, detail-oriented Financial Accountant who will play a critical role in driving operational financial excellence, compliance, and insight across our global operations. This role is ideal for a proactive, systems-savvy finance professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment takes pride in accurate, audit-ready numbers, is confident navigating modern finance systems, and is committed to continuous improvement in accounting processes.\nThe Financial Accountant will own Tydeco's transactional accounting and month-end balance sheet integrity across our South African and US entities, with a particular focus on consulting services revenue: client retainers, deferred and unbilled revenue, timesheet billing and revenue recognition under IFRS 15 and ASC 606. The role works closely with project, sales and operations teams to make sure that what is delivered is billed, and that what is billed is recognised and reconciled correctly.\nThe ideal candidate is highly analytical, a strong communicator, and thrives when given ownership and autonomy. If this is you, we invite you to apply.\nAs a platinum Sage partner, Tydeco and our partner entity Tydeco U specialize in delivering cutting-edge ERP solutions such as Sage Intacct and Sage 300 Cloud, and HRP solutions such as Sage VIP and SBCPP. We also offer Outsourced Accounting solutions to help clients streamline financial operations and scale with confidence. Our dedication to innovation, excellence, and client success ensures businesses not only adopt our solutions but thrive in competitive markets. If you're ready to make an impact in a fast-paced, high-impact environment, we invite you to be part of our journey.\nThis position will report to the Finance Manager. This is a fully remote, South Africa-based position, with occasional travel as business needs require.\nKey Responsibilities\nGlobal Support\nOperate within a global framework, ensuring adaptability to support teams, meet deadlines and participate in virtual meetings across multiple time zones based in South Africa and the U.S., as needed.\nCollaborate with international stakeholders, adjusting to varying schedules and priorities as needed.\nMaintain flexibility in scheduling to accommodate time-sensitive tasks and cross-regional collaboration.\nCore Accounting & Financial Operations\n Manage general ledger activities including journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, and adjustments, applying the correct Sage Intacct dimensions (entity, location, department, class and project).\nPerform monthly and year-end close procedures and ensure deadlines are met across financial cycles.\nMaintain the fixed asset register, record depreciation entries, and support asset audits as needed.\nProcess customer invoices and receipts, maintain the debtors ledger, allocate payments accurately, and follow up overdue accounts with client-facing teams.\nManage client retainers by reviewing contract terms, preparing invoices, tracking receipts and amounts applied to services, and reconciling unused balances to client records and the general ledger. Investigate discrepancies and follow up outstanding balances.\nTrack implementation billing milestones (upfront, milestone and final-execution invoices) against project delivery, make sure milestone invoices are raised on time, and recognise and reconcile unbilled revenue (contract assets) where services have been delivered but not yet invoiced. Identify over-utilised retainers and reclassify debit balances appropriately.\nMaintain revenue deferral schedules by client and contract across Tydeco's revenue streams: fixed-fee and hourly implementations, SLA and RSA support contracts recognised over the contract term, software subscriptions and licences, andoutsourced accounting services. Prepare monthly revenue recognition journals in line with IFRS 15 / ASC 606 and company policy, reconcile opening balances, additions, releases and closing balances to the general ledger, and retain supporting documentation.\nManage timesheet billing by checking completeness, approvals and client or project allocation. Validate billable hours against agreed rates, budgets and contract terms, prepare invoices, and resolve missing time, rate discrepancies and billing queries with project teams.\nMake sure customer invoices are coded correctly in Sage Intacct, including the correct client and service project, revenue type and Deal Type (e.g. new sale, renewal, SLA, add-on, outsourced), so that revenue and project profitability reporting is accurate.\nCalculate rebates on eligible vendor invoices using supplier agreements, qualifying spend, exclusions, thresholds and agreed rates. Maintain calculation schedules, record approved accruals, track claims and credit notes, and reconcile receipts to expected rebates.\nProcess supplier invoices through Ramp, validating supporting documents, account coding, project allocation and approvals. Resolve duplicate or disputed invoices, follow up outstanding approvals, monitor payment status, and reconcile invoices and payments to accounting records.\nPrepare monthly creditor reconciliations by matching supplier statements to the payable ledger. Investigate missing invoices, unallocated payments and credit notes, resolve differences with suppliers, maintain supporting schedules, and escalate overdue or disputed balances.\nPrepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations for bank, credit card, receivable, payable, accrual, prepayment, client retainer, deferred revenue, unbilled revenue, intercompany, VAT, payroll, leave pay provision and commission accrual accounts. Substantiate balances, investigate and clear reconciling items, post approved adjustments, and submit supporting schedules for review within close deadlines.\nRecord intercompany transactions and prepare intercompany reconciliations across the South African and US entities, resolve differences monthly, and support consolidation and elimination entries in a multi-currency environment.\nPrepare and review internal financial statements to ensure completeness and accuracy.\nAssist in developing, improving, and maintaining financial controls and documentation.\nReporting, Analysis & Audit Support\nAssist with monthly management reporting, including profit and loss, balance sheet, bank, credit card and cash flow reports.\nConduct variance analyses and support budget tracking and reforecasting efforts.\n Prepare the year-end audit file and supporting schedules for the annual external audit, and respond to auditor queries, particularly on revenue, client retainers, and deferred and unbilled revenue.\nCollaborate with leadership on ad hoc reporting and analysis as needed for financial planning and strategic decisions.\nInternal Collaboration, Process Alignment & Systems Collaboration\nWork cross-functionally with operations and finance teams to align accounting practices with business needs.\nPartner with system administrators and ERP users to troubleshoot accounting data issues and ensure financial reporting integrity.\nMonitor the flow of financial data across integrated platforms and support reconciliation efforts.\n Use Asana to track finance tasks, project milestones, billing deliverables and month-end deadlines. Maintain task owners, due dates and supporting documents, coordinate dependencies with project teams, and escalate overdue items affecting reporting or billing.\nSupport vendor onboarding, banking updates, and compliance processes in line with company policies.\nParticipate in global accounting meetings, ensuring consistency and compliance across financial processes.\nPrepare monthly VAT201 reconciliations and returns, and support provisional tax, payroll tax and other statutory filings for the South African entities, with equivalent support for US compliance as required.\nProvide support to leadership by preparing financial data, reports, and insights for internal decision-making.\nKey Attributes\nResilience and Adaptability: You excel in a global, fast-moving environment, balancing month-end deadlines, billing cycles and audit requests without compromising quality or timeliness.\nAttention to Detail: Your experience in multi-entity, multi-currency accounting ensures accuracy in financial reporting, reconciliations, and compliance efforts. You take pride in delivering audit-ready financials.\nFirm, Constructive Collaboration: You work closely with project managers, consultants and sales teams, and are confident following up missing timesheets, unbilled milestones and incorrect coding until they are resolved.\nRevenue and Contract Understanding: You read contracts, statements of work and SLAs with an accountant's eye, understand how consulting and support revenue should be billed and recognised, and can explain the impact of contract terms on the balance sheet.\nProblem-Solving and Analytical Excellence: With a data-driven mindset, you analyze financial trends, identify opportunities for efficiency, and use tools such as Sage Intacct, Ramp, Asana and Excel to drive operational improvements.\nOwnership and Accountability: You own your reconciliations and close deliverables end to end, clear reconciling items rather than carrying them forward, and proactively raise issues and process improvements.\nRequirements\nQualifications\n 5+ years of hands-on accounting experience as an Accountant or Senior Accountant, including at least 2-3 years in a professional services, consulting, software or agency environment.\nBachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.\nProfessional designation, SAIPA Professional Accountant or ACCA) strongly preferred; completed articles advantageous.\nStrong working knowledge of IFRS, specifically IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers (and ASC 606 for US entities), including performance obligations, revenue recognised over time, contract assets and contract liabilities.\nDemonstrable hands-on experience owning deferred revenue, client retainer and unbilled revenue (WIP) schedules and reconciliations.\nProven track record of preparing month-end balance sheet reconciliations to audit standard.\nWorking knowledge of South African VAT and statutory compliance.\nStrong Excel skills (Advanced level)\nExperience preparing year-end audit files and dealing directly with external auditors.\nStrong systems orientation and attention to process improvement and control\nStrong analytical skills with a proactive problem-solving mindset.\nPreferred Experience\nProficiency in Sage Intacct (strongly preferred), including projects, dimensions and multi-entity consolidation\nBackground in IT consulting, software implementation, SaaS or outsourced accounting businesses.\nFamiliarity with ERP implementations and financial technology integrations.\nExperience with Ramp, Asana or similar spend-management and work-management tools.\nBenefits\nWork Environment\nThis is a remote role, with occasional travel based on business and management needs. This is a full-time position that requires the ability to work a flexible and regular full-time schedule. It requires the ability to sit and work at a computer for extended periods of time and communicate effectively with a diverse audience in person, by phone and by computer.\nAbout Us\nTydeco is an equal opportunity employer, along with our partner entities AWCape, Applico, and Lescault and Walderman Inc. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. 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