Telecom Tower Audit

Role & responsibilities

Billing Operations (IP and energy)

• Monitor monthly billing cycles for tower tenancies, energy charges, and other pass-through costs.
• Validate customer contracts, SLAs, and billing terms to ensure accuracy in invoicing.
• Reconcile tower asset data with billing records to prevent under/over billing.
• Coordinate with the commercial and operations team to capture changes in tenancy (additions/removals/upgrades).
• Validation of IP billing with operator MSAs

2. Revenue Assurance

• Conduct periodic audits to identify revenue leakages, missed billing, or incorrect customer charges in rental and energy billing.
• Conducting post bill checks to verify billing accuracy vis a vis operator MSA and term sheets
• Review of billing comprehensiveness and completeness
• Validate rental escalations and energy pass-through clauses in line with contractual terms.
• Implement and monitor revenue assurance KPIs.
• Should be cost and actual cost for energy billing done to telecom operators

3. Financial Audits

• Support internal and external audit activities related to revenue, receivables, and billing processes.
• Prepare audit schedules, documentation, and justifications.
• Review reconciliations between physical tower assets, ERP billing modules, and customer contracts.

4. Data Reconciliation & Reporting

• Analyze site-wise revenue and cost data to ensure profitability tracking.
• Prepare variance analysis (actuals vs billed) and report anomalies.
• Maintain and report key metrics: billing accuracy, collection efficiency, revenue leakage rate, etc.

5. Systems & Process Improvement

• Support automation and digitization of billing and RA processes for rental and energy cost and revenue.
• Suggest and help implement system controls within ERP / billing systems.
• Liaise with IT/Systems team to ensure financial systems are updated with accurate master data.

Key Skills & Competencies:

• Strong analytical and auditing skills.
• Sound understanding of telecom tower business models and tenancy contracts.
• Proficiency in ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, etc.) and billing platforms.
• Advanced Excel skills; knowledge of Power BI / Tableau is a plus.
• High attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Preferred candidate profile