Billing Specialist- Temporary Role (6-Month Contract) at TransUnion

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

End Date: July 31, 2025