Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive, collaborative and innovative company?
Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team?
Join our Cloud & Consumption Billing team
The Cloud and Consumption Billing team is growing in response to a continued transition towards consumption models of cloud-based software and services where customer billing is performed monthly, based on consumption data. The Cloud Billing team sit within the wider finance team and are responsible for generating the correct invoices to customers at the right time for our fast-growing Cloud/Consumption-based business. As the vendors that we resell adopt this method of transacting, the Billing team are integral to ensuring customer set up is right and vendor data analysis is robust so we can continue to provide our customers with the highest levels of service and ensure our financial reporting and analysis is accurate.
Success. The Softcat Way.
Softcat is a major UK success story in technology solutions. We're a £1 billion+ pa turnover business with offices nationwide and a sterling industry reputation. We help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. Our success is down to our people – and the platform we give them to prove their potential.
Be part of a team that enables business growth
The successful candidate will take ownership of the Cloud Billing function ensuring it is resourced appropriately and that processes to ensure accurate and timely billing are in place, documented and followed. The individual will become a subject matter expert on Cloud Billing and will help ensure that, across the business, the requirements of billing are met. Establishing and leading the end-to-end processes for finance will be a key part of this role.
The role will spend time understanding the business, how it is evolving, and will ensure that Cloud Billing has a seat at the table for key decisions.
This individual will have experience from working in organisations with large and complex requirements and will use that knowledge and experience to guide the business as it expands. This role will be required to regularly communicate and present to other areas of the business using strong verbal and written skills. It is key that this individual puts the customer at the heart of all decisions.
As a Cloud & Consumption Billing Manager, you'll be responsible for:
* Managing and developing a small but growing team of four Billing Analysts
* Developing performance measures through robust KPI's and SLA's to ensure service levels.
* Ensuring that controls and systems are sufficiently designed, applied, and are evolving appropriately so they are fit for further growth
* Working closely with all departments involved with billing's end to end processes (from sales, to customer onboarding to data teams) and driving performance improvements
* Working with sales and technical teams to understand what's coming next and how we can build better
* Challenging existing practices and decisions
* Work closely with IT and data teams to develop automation and streamlining solutions
* Assist Accounts Payable, Accounts Collections and Financial Reporting in delivering key processes, investigations and reporting, while evolving understanding and resolving issues
We'd love you to have
* Experience of managing either a billing function or operational finance team in a large and/or complex business
* An eye for detail and ability to influence others
* Experience of developing and improving processes
* Good people manager
* Exceptional communication (written & verbal) skills at all levels, across multiple disciplines
Work in a way that works for you
We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:
* Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home
* Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
* Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs
Working with us
Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.
Join us
To become part of the success story, please apply now.
If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence.
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