Revenue & Month-End Support

• Work out deferred and accrued income journals each month — calculating the amounts to be released or deferred by contract/service period ahead of posting, in line with IFRS 15 revenue recognition.
• Calculate and post deferred and accrued income journal entries as part of the monthly close.
• Prepare and maintain deferred revenue schedules that underpin monthly revenue recognition, ensuring these reconcile to the general ledger.
• Prepare the monthly debtor reconciliation.
• Prepare for the bi-weekly debtors meeting chaired by the CFO, presenting customer aged debt status and seeking support where normal BAU collection activity has not led to timely cash collection.
• Assist the Commercial Finance Director in reviewing bad debt provisions against revenue released to the P&L, ensuring provisioning remains appropriate and consistent with recognised revenue.
• Assist the Commercial Finance Director with other tasks of a financial nature, including supporting process standardisation and control improvement initiatives across the order-to-cash cycle.

What We Offer

We’ll also offer you a competitive salary as well as the following benefits:

• ShareSave scheme - ability to purchase company shares on preferential terms
• Private healthcare
• Income protection and group life insurance
• Pension Scheme
• Company Funded Health Cashplan
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to Private Dental Benefits
• Flexible / hybrid working options
• Enhanced Family Friendly Leave for adoption, maternity, and paternity
• Bike 2 Work Scheme
• Employee Referral Bonus

Where You Will Be

This role is based from our London office and we support hybrid working.

To us at Aptitude, hybrid working means that our employees come together for 2-days per week at their local office. It’s an opportunity for our teams to collaborate, solve problems together, and to be engaged and involved in the wider community of our business.

We ask employees to come into the office every Wednesday and give you the flexibility to choose your other day.

Job Requirements

Desirable Qualifications

• Studying towards, or qualified in, AAT.
• CICM (Chartered Institute of Credit Management) Certificate or Diploma.
• ICM (Institute of Credit Management) qualification (if previously obtained).

Essential Experience

• 3–5 years' experience in credit control and accounts receivable within an international or multi-entity organisation.
• Experience managing customer collections across multiple jurisdictions and currencies.
• Experience of SaaS, software, technology, or recurring revenue businesses.
• Experience working with subscription, licence, and professional services billing.
• Proven ability to reduce debtor days and improve cash collection performance.
• Experience reconciling complex customer accounts and resolving billing disputes.
• Experience working closely with Sales, Commercial, and Finance teams.

Technical Skills

• Strong ERP experience (e.g. NetSuite).
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, reconciliation).
• Good understanding of VAT and international invoicing requirements (including an understanding of other sales taxes (e.g. USA), with a willingness to understand the relevant regulations to ensure billing is timely and accurate).
• Familiarity with multi-currency accounting and foreign exchange considerations.
• Project management skills are essential, to ensure the timely collection of monies and to understand the contract journey from signature through to execution and service delivery to the customer over the contract term.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent time management.

Person Specifications

• Strong interpersonal and organisational skills.
• Self-motivated and flexible, with a hands-on approach.
• A genuinely proactive approach — acting ahead of issues rather than waiting to be prompted — with a real passion for keeping the debt book under control, and taking full ownership, accountability, and responsibility for managing this area as a professional.