Revenue​/WIP Accountant

Role:
Revenue /WIP Accountant Sector: SME Marcomms Agency

Location:

Central London Permanent:
Full Time – 3 days in office Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 Reporting to:
Finance Director  3312 Our client is a 100 person global agency that is growing rapidly. The Revenue Accountant will play an important role in the commercial side of a growing business.

You’ll take ownership of how revenue flows through the business – ensuring accuracy, clarity, and compliance across a fast-moving global agency environment. The Revenue Accountant will work closely with Client Services and play a critical role in shaping how we recognise, forecast, and report revenue across all global regions. This is a hands’ on role; you’ll have excellent experience of client billing, WIP & cashflow management plus business partnering with the Client Services teams to ensure accurate revenue recognition and forecasting.

You will review the work of the biller ensuring accuracy and that all Invoices are being uploaded into client portals correctly ( Ai driven).You’ll be keen to seek process improvement and efficiencies, helping strengthen controls, streamline workflows, and build the finance processes that support the ambitions of a global, fast paced, high-growth agency. Responsibilities of the Revenue Accountant Oversee client billing process to ensure that invoices are raised in line with contract terms, deliverables, and performance metrics.

Monitor unbilled revenue and pass-through costs and proactively resolve. Own end-to-end monthly revenue recognition across all projects, liaising with relevant Account Managers and with regards to client contracts Track delivery milestones to ensure revenue is recognised accurately and on time - this role will be instrumental in setting up the necessary systems and processes to ensure that our revenue recognition is closely aligned to key milestones.

Maintain accrued and deferred revenue schedules by job and client.

Experience of working with a high volume of pass through costs , ensuring that spend is accurately tracked against client budgets and that teams are alerted to any overspends in a timely manner. Ensure that pass-through costs are billed promptly and WIP is kept to a minimum Overall responsibility for ensuring that any project overspends are minimised. With the new finance system about to be implemented, we are looking to improve the current levels of reporting around revenue including analysis by client, department, region, trends etc.

Responsible for the month end close process with regards to revenue and pass through costs with revenue journals, reconciliations, and variance analysis. Develop and enhance revenue-related processes , controls, and documentation as the business scales globally Identify inefficiencies in billing, forecasting, and revenue tracking and propose improvements. Ensure compliance with internal policies and external accounting standards. Prepare revenue-related documentation for annual audits and respond to auditor queries.

Maintain strong internal controls across multi-currency and multi-entity revenue streams. Educate non-finance teams on revenue processes and requirements.

Skills and Qualifications of the Revenue Accountant Minimum part-qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA) Experience working within a high-volume marketing/creative agency Strong understanding of revenue recognition principles, in project-based or service-based environments Experience working in a multi-entity or multi-currency organisation. Hands-on experience with agency finance systems. Paprika software experience Strong Excel skills, including working with large datasets, reconciliations, and revenue schedules.

Comfortable managing accrued/deferred revenue, WIP, and…