What are the responsibilities and job description for the Revenue Analyst position at Air France & KLM?
Job Role:
Position is responsible for handling the air-waybill audit, customer-billing dispute within the functional requirement of AF/KL group and secure the Revenue Integrity process. This position is also responsible to assist with collections of past due invoices & identify recurring billing issues to improve the invoice quality and minimize revenue leakage.
Organizational Context:
This position is in the America’s Revenue Integrity Center located in Atlanta and reporting to the RIC Manager.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Air-waybill control & Billing Disputes
Core activities:
- Perform air-waybill audit within KPI targets (completeness, quality, timeliness).
- Secure Revenue Integrity process overall in AFLS.
- Develop Business Object queries to automate pre-billing audit.
- Use Business Object queries to check completeness of “other charges” and overall quality.
- Analyze customer-billing disputes received on CASS website before the expiry date.
- Interface with external customers and AF/KL customer service, sales to resolve billing disputes.
- Seek customer commitment proactively for payment confirmation of air-waybill before issuing rebill via CASS.
- Update Dispute Handling Tool with the results of the disputes analysis.
- Adjust air-waybills in AFLS system in the event billing dispute is valid.
- Handle Rate change tool adjustments from commercial team in AFLS.
2. Perform Receivable Collections
Core activities:
- Use SAP-ATB/BI report to identity past due air-waybills.
- Contact customers for partial or unpaid invoices.
- Escalate delinquent accounts to local commercial team & Regional Director.
- Provide outstanding air-waybills report to Regional Director over 90 days.
- Co-ordinate with Sales Managers, Regional Director to resolve the outstanding balances within six months from billing date.
3. Identify Recurring dispute patterns & Revenue leakage
Core activities:
- Look for patterns within dispute activity.
- Use Business Object queries to improve invoice quality
- Determine the cause of billing discrepancy (pricing system related, Agent behavior, missing spot rates, other charges etc).
- Analysis and reporting for to identify dispute causes & trends.
- Provide feedback to appropriate AF/KL department (sales management, pricing, operations, customer service,) or external customers.
- Aim to reduce billing disputes and improve billing quality.
4. Miscellaneous
Core activities:
- Other charge and invoice quality report.
- Create monthly report on outstanding debt, Dispute statistics.
- Run reports in SAP-BI/DWH.
- Work on ad-hoc projects/studies requested by the RIC manager.
Job-Requirements: knowledge, learned disciplines, experience
- Bachelor’s degree in / finance / accounting
- Airfreight industry knowledge preferred
- Knowledge of DLAFKLMP Cargo network, products / specialties , know how
- Good command over typing speed (40 to 50 WPM).
- Strong analytical skills
- Perform all tasks with great accuracy and accountability
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Able to work autonomously and under pressure in an evolving environment
- Able to perform under pressure and tight deadlines
- Preferably Experience in Customer Service
- Microsoft Office knowledge is required specifically with strong emphasis in Excel (Pivot tables, macros, formulas, reports) and good knowledge of PowerPoint and MS access preferred
- Knowledge of SAP & Business Objects is preferred
Job-Requirements: Competencies
- Initiative – proactive and work independently
- Teamwork
- Problem analysis – draws accurate inferences
- Building and maintaining relationships
- Information gathering
- Judgment – makes sound decisions
- Planning and organizing
- Quality focus
- Excellence & Communication Skills
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $41,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Overtime
Work Location: One location