Junior Accountant

Job Purpose:
Generate financial entries and invoices, resolve proration and revenue accounting processing exceptions, accurate and timely accounting/reporting. Respond to queries in a timely manner. 

Job Accountabilities

• To process revenue accounting transactions, clear exceptions, raise invoices, trigger accounting, conduct reconciliation, fare/refund audits, master updates, reviews and other processing functions.


• To identify and evaluate discrepancies, resolve queries with the respective internal or external stakeholders and preclude inconsistent results accompanied by maintenance of detective and prevention controls. Improve customer experience through high-quality deliverables, effective issue resolution and structured communication.


• To assist the Supervisor or Officer in pre/post-closing accounting functions and ad-hoc assignments.
  


• Support internal and external customers by providing required information and answering queries. 
  

Specific to Revenue Services

• Handle proration exceptions in Revenue Accounting system. This activity involves committing the point of turnaround and true destination of the journey, answering proration related questions by checking the Awb data elements and referring the reference data related items to the Reference data team for further action.


• Handle processing exceptions in Revenue Accounting system which involves clearance of Gross Wt / routing exceptions / Other charges and other RDI exceptions.


• Handle yield checking and validation. This activity involves comparing the system computed net prorate value on the sector with the average yields given to the staff followed by checking the Awb data in RAPID to ensure the data is correct.


• Reconcile on a regular basis the Sales, Interline, and Revenue related clearing accounts to ensure that accounts reflect the correct and realistic balances.


• Generate accounting entries for the differences between Head Office and Station accounting and ensure that necessary corrective action is taken.


• Evaluate and pass necessary accounting entries for provision, accrual, reversal, booking revenue and exchange difference etc.


• Raising invoices, billing memos, credit notes and credit memos on various customers through the relevant Finance system(s) based on information supplied by various cost centres.


• Account inward billed invoices and credit notes after cost centre approval. Raise rejection as instructed by cost centres.
  
  

Experience:
Finance & Insurance - Accounts
3+ Years of relevant experience

Qualification:
Bachelor's degree in Finance
Additional finance qualifications preferred. 

Knowledge/skills:
Airline Revenue Accounting knowledge.
High level of computer literacy in Microsoft Word, Excel, 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.

Specific to EK Revenue Services:
Knowledge of Cargo fares, ticketing, proration, interpretation of IATA Rules & Regulations and Interline Agreements.
IATA Qualifications in Cargo Fares, Ticketing & Proration would be an added advantage. 
Knowledge of Global Distribution Systems (GDS) / SkyChain (Cargo Reservation system)