Revenue Accountant

At EMJ, people are at the heart of everything we do: our culture, our performance, and our mission to elevate healthcare globally. As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a Revenue Accountant who is passionate about owning the end-to-end revenue cycle and ensuring accurate, compliant revenue recognition. In this role, you’ll partner closely with client services and commercial teams to ensure revenue is correctly billed, recognised, and forecasted, while driving continuous improvement across the revenue cycle. You’ll also play a critical part in financial planning, delivering high-quality modelling, forecasting, and budgeting, and leading process enhancements through automation and AI adoption. If you’re proactive, detail-oriented, and excited by the impact robust financial processes can have, this is the role for you.

What you'll do:

• Revenue Reconciliation Across Systems: Reconcile revenue data across Zoho (booked revenue), accepted quotes (awaiting PO), and Asana (project management system) to ensure completeness and accuracy.

• Project Revenue Tracking & Integrity: Maintain accurate tracking of all projects from initial booking through to delivery and completion. Ensure all project movements (delays, cancellations, scope changes, repurposing) are correctly reflected across systems.

• Repurposed Projects Accounting: Ensure all repurposed or reallocated projects are appropriately accounted for and revenue is recognised correctly in line with updated delivery timelines and scope.

• Revenue Recognition: Calculate and post revenue recognition based on project milestones and delivery stages. Ensure revenue is recognised in the correct entity and accounting period in line with company policy

• Multi-Entity Revenue Management: Allocate and recognise revenue accurately across multiple legal entities, ensuring compliance and consistency.

• Accrued & Deferred Income: Own the calculation and reporting of accrued and deferred income per entity. Prepare detailed project-level listings to support all balance sheet positions, ensuring full transparency and audit readiness.

• Business Partnering: Work closely with Client Services to track project progress, understand changes, and ensure accurate financial treatment. Act as the key finance contact for all project-related revenue queries.

• Revenue Reconciliation: Reconcile Xero (financial system) with Zoho (CRM) to ensure all booked revenue in Zoho has been fully and accurately invoiced, with no omissions.

• Forecasting & Revenue Modelling: Lead revenue forecasting, incorporating pipeline, historical trends, and commercial inputs. Build detailed revenue models to support pricing, scenario analysis, and strategic decisions.

• Invoicing & Billing Oversight: Lead the invoicing process, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and strong controls. Partner with operations and sales to resolve discrepancies and improve billing efficiency.

• Forecasting & Budgeting: Lead forecasting and budgeting processes, providing clear insight into performance, risks, and opportunities. Liaise with Directors to build budgets and drive accountability.

• Process Improvement, Automation & AI: Strengthen revenue controls and audit trails while driving process improvements through automation and AI to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.

Who you are:

• Revenue Accounting & Recognition Expertise: Strong experience in revenue accounting, including milestone-based recognition and management of accrued and deferred income.

• Multi-System Reconciliation & Data Accuracy: Proven ability to reconcile data across CRM, finance, and project systems, ensuring accuracy and a single source of truth.

• Advanced Technical & Analytical Skills: Strong Excel capability, experience with complex reconciliations, and ability to manage high volumes of project-level data.

• Stakeholder Management & Multi-Entity Experience: Ability to partner with non-finance teams (e.g. Client Services) and work across multiple legal entities with consistency and control.

It would be a bonus if you've also..

• Systems Experience (Zoho/Xero/Asana): Familiarity with core systems used across CRM, finance, and project management platforms.

• Automation & Process Improvement: Experience improving finance processes through automation and efficiency initiatives.

• AI & Forecasting Tools: Exposure to AI tools and experience supporting revenue forecasting or predictive analytics.

• Commercial & Change Experience: Background in high-growth environments with experience in revenue optimisation, controls, or system/process implementation.
  

Key Information

• Salary: £45,000

• Reports to: Finance Director

• Hours: 8.30am – 5pm, Mon-Fri

• Working pattern: Hybrid, a minimum of 3 days in the office (5 days a week in the office during probation)

• Location: This role is based onsite in our London/Moorgate office

About EMJ

EMJ's purpose is to elevate the quality of healthcare globally, by supporting all healthcare professionals with free and easy access to medical journals and lifelong learning opportunities. We do this to create Gold Medal Winners, enabling healthcare professionals to become the best versions of themselves. Similarly we equip our employees with all the skills, tools and knowledge they need to be in the top 10% of what they do and create Gold Medal Winners in the company.

• Taking care of your own: We all need to be proactive and responsible for our own actions. This will lead to an inspiring place to work that we are all proud of.

• Going the extra mile: Always give your best performance, this will create a team that is different to anything else, full of hard working, gold medal winners.

• Entire buy in: Everyone has loyalty to our vision, values, culture, and the long-term goals of EMJ. We are committed to doing so in a positive and passionate way.
  

Find out more about us and careers at EMJ.

Application process:

Your CV will be reviewed by the Recruitment team. If successful, we will be in touch to arrange a telephone call. Following this there will be a 2-stage interview process, one focused on competencies and one on the EMJ values.