Accountant – Revenue Recognition

Overview

Accountant – Revenue Recognition (Emiratization Position)

Job Outline

• Review processes, analyze high risk areas, handle quality checks, and ensure adequate maintenance of prevention and detection controls to ensure completeness, timelines of processing, accounting, billing and accuracy of computation and settlement.
• Resolve disputes, queries, discrepancies with internal and external stakeholders.
• Identify areas and ensure active involvement in projects, system enhancements testing and process changes and thereby acquire in depth knowledge and enhance business processes.
• Check the integrity of interfaces and completeness of data generated by the system. Provide support on key processes and deliverables in the absence of Finance Officer and assist the Finance Officer/Controller in month closing reviews by investigating movements in balances to ensure quality/accuracy of reporting and to ensure that month/year end adjustments are kept to the minimum.
• Provide data analytical support for Management Information Systems (MIS), KPI and Revenue Assurance.
• Ensure the revenue processing and accounting is completed as per the timelines for reporting and overall revenue recognition for the month.
• Manually prorate complex coupons which have been rejected by the Revenue Accounting system in order to process in a timely and accurate manner and clear prorate exceptions for Emirates and other airline documents so that the fare collected can be allocated to each coupon of the document and sales liabilities on own document sales and revenue from OWN & other airlines uplifts can be established and accounted.
• Complete the processing and accounting of interline invoices, sales, commissions, discounts, rejection values and other related accounts to ensure that the inward billing control account has a justifiable outstanding balance.
• Process interline Prime invoices (including Flight Interruption Manifest billing) and recharges in accordance with Prorate Manual, and Special Prorate Agreement with the help of proration modules in Revenue Accounting. Accept and or reject for the overbilled or billed values as per the norms of IATA Resolutions and or Revenue Accounting Manual, including correspondence with Other Airlines on Interline Billing Disputes.
• Examine, analyze and interpret passenger and cargo special prorate agreements, tax, fare circulars and tariff amendments for clarity and completeness to ensure that there is no ambiguity in the proration and revenue booking process and applied appropriately to billing/billed transactions.
• Recover under-billings due to ticketing discrepancies including incorrect fare collected on the ticket, non/under-collection of fuel & insurance surcharge and tax under-billings and obtain clarifications/confirmation.

Qualifications
Qualifications & Experience

• High school graduates

Knowledge/skills

• Accounting knowledge preferably from an airline background.
• High level of computer literacy and good knowledge of office automation software like Word, Excel, MS Access and PowerPoint
• Good analytical and investigative skills
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with various stakeholders across the business.
• Ability to function independently within an established framework