.Job TitleBilling Operations Senior SpecialistSummaryThe Services and Implementation (S&I) team within Revenue Management specializes in effort day-related products, handling contract fulfillment and billing activities.
The scope of effort day-related products includes consulting, training, product and project implementation and is in close contact with delivery, project, and program managers.
The S&I senior specialist is responsible for billing, associated business controlling, and reporting Amadeus revenues related to the area of Airline Services.
Additionally, due to the complexity and significant amounts billed for specific projects, the senior specialist is in close contact with the revenue recognition team to provide them with business and financial accruals such as the percentage of completion.Key responsibilitiesAirline Services business unit billing and processingFacilitate monthly information gathering from relevant stakeholders.Ensure contractual commitments are billed accurately and deadlines and KPIs are met.Define, review and validate requirements for reporting.Produce billing reports to provide revenue visibility to the Airline Services business unit.Accruals and deferred revenues (including percentage of completion items)Manage and improve accrual information is transferred correctly for Amadeus IT Group.Ensure proper revenue recognition adjustments by applying IFRS (IFRIC 18, Accruals) by providing preselection of contracts that are qualified to POC to the Revenue Recognition team.Provide support on deferred revenue recognition.Billing procedures and controlsProvide support through advice on meetings with different divisions/teams to streamline the relevant billing information sent to S&I area.Introduce, explain and monitor the use of the S&I input for billing template to Account Manager and Delivery Management teams to homogenize the input received from different sources.Ensure that any new procedure and/or deadline is aligned with the rest of Revenue Management teams.Ensure that the internal controls to avoid duplicated billing or revenue leakage are followed.Billing and month end activitiesEnsure that the billing is aligned with contractual conditions both in terms of revenue and deadlines so that revenue management KPIs are met.Identify invoicing deviations (discounts, waivers, contractual status...) and obtain proper level of approval.Perform monthly billing comparison analysis for products.Support internal and external audits.Knowledge-sharing and expertiseSupports team members with varying levels of experience and provides guidance to junior team members.Train and support newcomers in SAP Billing module and Revenue Management billing procedures and deadlines.Airline Implementation BillingResponsible for billing a specific set of airline implementations to airline customers.Monthly follow up of issues derived from billing