907 - Revenue Assurance Accountant

Apave America•Houston, TX

About The Position

The Revenue Assurance Accountant protects company revenue, improves billing accuracy, and identifies opportunities to enhance gross margin performance across operating regions. Reporting to the Vice President, Finance for the US Operations, this role acts as an independent control function between Operations, Billing, Finance, Payroll, and Business Systems. It ensures earned revenue is recognized and billed accurately and converted to cash, while proactively identifying revenue leakage, billing errors, pricing inconsistencies, labor inefficiencies, and margin erosion through audits, data analytics, control testing, and operational reviews. The role focuses on maximizing revenue capture, operational discipline, and profitability. The successful candidate will think like an auditor while operating as a business partner, use analysis and attention to detail to identify improvement opportunities, and influence operational leaders to take corrective action. The role aims to increase visibility into revenue leakage and margin erosion before they affect financial results and to foster accountability for pricing, billing, utilization, and profitability. Apave America Inc. is a tech-enabled service provider of non-destructive testing, inspection, asset integrity engineering, software, and specialized mechanical services across diverse U.S. end markets. The company describes its culture as collaborative, supportive, entrepreneurial, and oriented toward mentorship and professional development, with direct access to leadership and an open-door policy.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in finance, operational accounting, project controls, revenue assurance, internal audit, or commercial finance.
Strong understanding of revenue recognition principles, including IFRS 15.
Strong understanding of project accounting, billing systems, gross margin analysis, and internal controls.
Advanced Excel and data analytics skills.
Experience working with ERP, dispatch, or field service management systems.
Highly analytical and detail-oriented, with the ability to influence operational leaders and drive corrective actions.

Responsibilities

Review operational activity to ensure all billable work is captured and invoiced.
Identify and investigate unbilled labor, equipment, materials, subcontractor, and travel costs.
Monitor unconverted hours, dispatches, and work orders.
Validate revenue recognition in the appropriate accounting period and review accrued revenue and work-in-progress balances for completeness and accuracy.
Ensure contract modifications and change orders are reflected in billings; investigate revenue adjustments, credit notes, and invoice reversals.
Audit customer invoices for contract compliance and test billing rates against approved customer rate schedules.
Verify employee billing rates are updated following compensation changes; review annual escalations and ensure implementation.
Identify incorrect customer pricing, monitor approved volume discount compliance, and validate service line coding and revenue classifications.
Analyze margin deterioration by customer, project, service line, and region; review projects with significant margin variances.
Identify excessive overtime, double-time, standby, and non-productive labor costs; monitor labor utilization and billable efficiency.
Evaluate cost recovery for equipment, vehicles, travel, consumable materials, and subcontractors.
Identify scope creep, unrecovered project costs, and jobs with labor costs but no corresponding revenue.
Conduct periodic operational reviews of processes affecting revenue and profitability, including billing procedures and project setup standards.
Evaluate controls for timesheet entry, dispatch management, and invoice processing; conduct root-cause analyses of revenue leakage and recommend corrective actions.
Monitor implementation of corrective actions.
Review master data integrity for employee billing rates, cost rates, service line assignments, customer pricing schedules, and contract terms.
Develop exception reports highlighting potential revenue or margin risks, prepare monthly Revenue Assurance Scorecards, and provide actionable recommendations to Finance and Operations leadership.