Role Overview
The Revenue Management Accountant plays a key role in managing the financial integrity of project revenue across the EMEA region. This position ensures accurate, compliant, and timely revenue recognition under the percentage-of-completion (POC) methodology, using inputs such as timesheets and third-party direct costs, and serves as a Client Finance Manager for all revenue-related items. Working closely with Project Managers, Client Services, and Operations, you’ll translate project activity into accurate financial results, ensuring that both creative and commercial teams have visibility into project performance. You’ll also mentor a Junior Accountant and contribute to continuous improvement in revenue reporting processes and systems.
Key Responsibilities
The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:
* Lead the full revenue recognition process across multiple EMEA entities.
* Apply percentage-of-completion (POC) methodology using time, cost, and project progress inputs.
* Review timesheets and supplier costs to ensure accurate revenue accruals and forecasts.
* Maintain WIP, deferred revenue, and accrued income schedules.
* Prepare monthly/quarterly revenue reports highlighting variances, risks, and key movements.
* Identify opportunities to refine and streamline revenue recognition processes.
* Support ERP and project management system enhancements (e.g., NetSuite, OpenAir).
* Ensure strong documentation and audit trails for all revenue-related workflows.
* Review project profitability and WIP balances; recommend corrective actions where needed.
* Support accurate billing and ensure alignment between operational and financial systems.
* Manage intercompany revenue allocations for multi-studio projects.
* Line manage and support the development of a Junior Accountant.
* Partner cross-functionally with Operations and Commercial teams to enhance financial performance and processes.
* Deliver monthly revenue reports, KPIs, and variance analyses to senior leadership.
* Build tools and dashboards to improve visibility into revenue and project performance.
* Support financial planning and forecasting cycles.
* Assist with onboarding newly acquired businesses into revenue processes and policies.
Requirements
* Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; ACCA, ACA, or CIMA qualification preferred (or part-qualified).
* 4–7 years’ experience in accounting, with specific exposure to revenue or project accounting, ideally within a creative, digital, or professional services environment, but not required.
* Strong working knowledge of percentage-of-completion accounting and international accounting principles
* Experience interpreting timesheets, project data, and supplier costs to determine accurate revenue recognition.
* Experience with project-based ERP systems (e.g. NetSuite or similar).
* Advanced Excel skills; Power BI or similar data visualisation experience an advantage.
* Excellent communication and analytical skills with a proactive, problem-solving mindset.
* Organised, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple projects in a fast-moving creative environment.
Salary Pay Range
£50,000—£65,000 GBP
About Journey:
Journey is a global design and innovation studio pioneering multidimensional experiences (MDX) that transform how people perceive, engage, and interact with the world. With studios in New York, London, Miami, and Dubai, we blend strategy, design, technology, and narrative to create sensory-rich journeys that ignite emotion and deepen connections between people, brands, and culture.
Journey was formed in 2022 by visionary leaders who refuse to accept limits. United through the acquisitions of award-winning studios ICRAVE, Squint/Opera, 59, and VMI Studio, together, we form something new: a multidimensional design practice with unparalleled expertise across the physical, immersive, and digital realms.
But we're so much more than a combination of acquisitions; we're a revolutionary framework of layered design capabilities akin to the layers of a technology stack for software companies. Like the best technology stacks, our framework continuously evolves to embrace new capabilities and creative possibilities with the future of the human experience at the forefront. This game-changing framework, the Journey Experience Stack, allows us to design for every touchpoint and create uncommonly cohesive brand universes, drawing on our collective expertise in interior design, lighting design, media design, interactive design, and content creation to deliver industry-first solutions for entertainment, healthcare, retail, hospitality, real estate, and cultural institutions.
No other full-service studio practices multidimensional design or vertically integrates its experience capabilities with this level of sophistication. Whether we’re reimagining the hospital-patient relationship, creating the world’s most immersive entertainment venue, revolutionizing live theater, or crafting virtual twins that accelerate ideas’ passage from vision to reality, Journey’s work is pioneering the shift of how people perceive, engage, and interact with the world.