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What We'll Bring:
At TransUnion, we have a welcoming and energetic environment that encourages collaboration and innovation we’re consistently exploring new technologies and tools to be agile. This environment gives our people the opportunity to hone current skills and build new capabilities, while discovering their genius.Come be a part of our team – you’ll work with great people, pioneering products and cutting-edge technology.
What You'll Bring:
The Billing Specialist is a dynamic and problem solving individual responsible for the billing activities within the South Africa Billing function. Reporting to the Senior Consultant Billing, this goal orientated, driven and innovative individual will navigate a multicultural and highly competitive environment while partnering with a number of internal and external customers such as the CFO, Head of Strategy, Sales Team members & Leadership and the TU Finance team (local and US’ to ensure that the Billing activity/function is running in compliance with all Company and Accounting standards
How You Will Contribute:
- First line of responsibility for all financial inputs into allocated business units:
- Managing compliance with financial and management accounting controls and principles
- Applying the correct accounting treatment as appropriate
- Review and management of new and current contracts
- Reconciliation of customer accounts and ensuring billing has been done correctly
- Be able to analyze client usage and the billing there of
- Preparation for month end/quarter end/year end:
- Processing of journal entries
- Credit and rebill entries
- Analyzing provisions and the raising there of
- Reconciliations
- Projects
- Audits
- Assist with / preparation for internal and statutory audits
Management of business units/ verticals
- Proactively drive initiatives to resolve system, process and policy shortcomings by fixing root cause issues
- Management of the preparation and adherence to all SLAs for tickets and exceptions raised
- Identification and investigation of potential inefficiencies and risks encountered by the business based on revenue analysis
- Prepare meaningful inputs and analyses of variances
- Work with business units to ensure that billing is in line with expectations i.e. contract rates and usage
- Address internal and external queries to ensure they are resolved timeously, to the expected level of detail and accuracy
- Minimal direct supervision
- Communication involves planning and preparation of the communications, requiring skill, tact, persuasion and/or negotiation to accomplish the objective
- Key Customer analysis
- Preparation of Volume and Product reporting
- Prepare reports required by TU International & Corporate
- Ad hoc requests as required
What you’ll bring:
We are looking for a financial related Degree coupled with at least 4 years’ experience within a similar capacity. Strong computer literacy and advanced Excel skills are critical to the role.
In addition to the above requirements, the successful candidate will have the following competencies:
Functional Competencies:
- Computerised accounting (PeopleSoft)
- Operational finance
Behavioral Competencies
- Must be a team player
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to navigate complex environments and situations independently and successfully
- Speed and accuracy with figures as well as attention to detail
- Planning and organizing skills with the ability to be proactive and to plan ahead
- Ability to prioritise work deliverables in a creative environment in order to meet multiple, tight and highly pressurized deadlines
- Ability to manage competing priorities effectively and see these to conclusion
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to think and move quickly in a dynamic fast moving environment
- Ability to deal with conflict appropriately and drive win-win outcomes
- Business acumen
- Customer orientated focus
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills- upward, downward and lateral
- Problem solving
- Systematic and analytical
Personal Qualities:
- Customer focused
- A strong participative team member, adaptable to a dynamic and demanding environment
- Mature, well-balanced and confident personality who is self-driven, highly motivated and energetic
- Quick learner
- Integrity and trust - Absolute integrity and ability to handle highly confidential and sensitive information
- Must be a self-starter, motivated and energetic
- Prepared to work long hours
- Drive for results
- Disciplined
- Action orientated
- Practical
- Innovative/ Creative
- Determined
- Interpersonal savvy
- Helpfulness
Impact You'll Make:
The Finance Team operates in a vibrant, fast-paced and demanding performance-based environment where the team supports internal and external customer in driving results. Timelines are highly pressurised and non-negotiable. This team has a strong customer focus and aims to become a strategic partner with the business, enabling better business decisions and growth for TransUnion. The team considers external factors which will influence the work environment as well as future conditions to ensure effective strategies with a specific focus on innovation and current system improvements.
This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.TransUnion Job Title
Specialist II, Shared Services
