Bookkeeper: Revenue Management (Re-Advert) at South African Bureau of Standards (SABS)

PURPOSE STATEMENT

• To seek approval to recruit and appoint additional resources in the financial reporting department to assist    
• Work with LSD Invoice Backlogs.

Minimum Requirements    
Qualifications

• Matric/Grade 12
• National Diploma/ Diploma in Finance or a related field

Work Experiance

• 3 years relevant work experience in billing or revenue management

Duties and Responsibilities    

• Assist with the accurate processing of the billing and related finance activities in the revenue cycle to ensure credit notes issued due to incorrect billing are minimised.
• Investigate all billing related issues, engage with laboratory officers and ICT where applicable for system issues and facilitate timeous resolution of the identified issues.
• Verify that all the applicable supporting documentation is received to open the sales order.
• Perform the opening and closing of jobs activities for allocated areas as and when required.
• Validate sales orders for completeness and accuracy.
• Facilitate timeous resolution of customer queries and provide required documentation where necessary
• Facilitate customer requests regarding payments for refunds and compile the refund requests to be reviewed by the Finance clerk
• Capture journal requests for both internal and external revenue as well as correcting journals for review and approval by BU Head.
• Assist Clerk: Finance in following up on reconciling items appearing on balance sheet accounts
• Monitor exception reports daily for allocated areas with assistance of Finance clerks to identify discrepancies, investigate and resolve where possible or escalate if no resolution is possible
• Review pre-payments to identify instanced where completed work has not been billed to ensure that customers are billed on time for all work that is complete.
• Verifying customer payments on cash customer accounts before commencing with the work.
• Ensure and maintain proper record keeping of all Revenue Management documentation
• Ensure adherence to set timelines within the Business Unit and Division.
• Support the Finance clerks in ensuring that monthly reconciliations are performed and balanced within the required timeframes on the revenue in advance and expired revenue balance sheet accounts for both SABS and SABS Commercial.
• Compile and report customers with special billing processes and/or requirements, including where necessary contacting external service providers to obtain relevant supporting documentation. 
• Monitor Work in Progress (WIP) for allocated areas ensuring that all long outstanding items are resolved and all invalid transactions are timeously removed.
• Attend to billing related matters.
• Assist with compiling and providing documentation for audit purposes
• Perform any ad hoc billing-related activities as required.
• Assist with clearing billing backlogs in business units promptly.
• Assist in compiling weekly, monthly, etc. reports as may be determined from time to time regarding Revenue Management activities.
• Assist in the implementation of effective Revenue Management processes to ensure correctness of revenue in terms of IFRS requirements.

Deadline:26th January,2026