Key responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end administration and configuration of Zuora Billing and Zuora Revenue Recognition, including product catalogue, rate plans, charge models, subscription lifecycle, invoicing, workflows, and payment processing, ensuring accuracy and reliability at all times
- Act as the primary internal subject matter expert for the Zuora platform, triaging issues, diagnosing root causes, and implementing sustainable fixes without reliance on external implementation support
- Continuously identify and drive process improvements across the order-to-cash lifecycle; surface inefficiencies, propose solutions, and deliver changes that improve billing accuracy, reduce manual effort, and scale with business growth
- Translate complex business requirements from Finance, RevOps, and Sales into Zuora configurations and solution designs; be the bridge between business needs and technical implementation
- Manage and maintain integrations between Zuora and connected systems, including Salesforce CRM, payment gateways, and downstream financial or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, in partnership with Engineering, ensuring data integrity and reliability
- Work with RevOps to ensure Zuora CPQ configuration into Zuora Billing is optimised and has tight alignment between what Sales quotes and what Finance bills; serve as the Zuora-side expert while RevOps owns the Salesforce quoting experience
- Partner with RevOps and Sales to identify and deliver Zuora CPQ workflow improvements that reduce quoting friction and improve the efficiency of the sales process
- Own accuracy of Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) reporting and Revenue out of Zuora, ensuring outputs are accurate, timely, and can be relied on for Finance decision-making
- Provide assurance and support on revenue and billing data, partnering with the Data team, RevOps, and other Finance stakeholders to validate figures and resolve discrepancies
- Proactively surface billing insights and metrics to Finance and RevOps, proposing areas for improvement and optimisation across billing and revenue reporting processes
- Build and maintain clear technical documentation covering system configurations, integrations, workflows, and billing processes, ensuring the platform is well understood, auditable, and transferable
For clarity, this role does not:
- Own the Salesforce CRM platform, that sits with RevOps
- Own the sales quoting experience or usability design within Salesforce, that is a RevOps responsibility
Required Skills and Experience
Technical skills:
- Deep, hands-on expertise in configuring and administering Zuora Billing, including product catalogue setup, rate plans, charge models, subscription management, invoice settlement, workflows, data loader, data queries and payment gateway management
- Proven ability to configure and administer Zuora Revenue Recognition (RevRec), with working knowledge of revenue recognition standards under AASB 15 / ASC 606
- Strong hands-on experience working with Zuora CPQ, including pricing logic, quoting workflows, and subscription amendment processes
- Deep understanding of the end-to-end quote-to-cash (Q2C) process in a subscription-based Software as a Service (SaaS) business
- Experience managing and troubleshooting Zuora integrations with Salesforce CRM and downstream ERP or financial systems
- Strong project management skills, keeping stakeholders accountable to deliver work on time and at a high degree of quality
- Able to translate complex business requirements into functional system configurations and scalable solution designs; thinks in systems, not just tasks
- Strong data skills, able to interrogate and validate data across integrated systems to diagnose billing issues and verify accuracy
- Zuora Billing certification highly regarded
Behavioural skills:
- Comfortable operating as the main internal expert on a complex, enterprise-grade platform, takes full ownership, moves decisively, and doesn't wait to be directed
- Strong cross-functional communicator who can fluently bridge technical and non-technical conversations across Finance, RevOps, Sales, and Engineering, influencing stakeholders without formal authority
- Solution-oriented by default, shows up to conversations with options and recommendations, not just problem statements
- Thrives in ambiguity and can inherit a recently implemented system, make it their own, and drive improvements without an existing playbook to follow
- Holds high standards for accuracy and data integrity, understands that billing errors have direct financial and customer impact
- Driven to improve, proactively identifies inefficiencies and moves to resolve them rather than working around them
- Able to work well with cross-functional stakeholders in high-pressure situations
AI skills:
- Actively uses AI tools (such as Claude or Microsoft Copilot) to accelerate documentation, root cause analysis, drafting functional specifications, and researching Zuora platform capabilities and updates
- Able to evaluate AI-generated solution options for billing configurations and validate them against business logic and system constraints
- Uses AI as a continuous learning and research tool to stay ahead of platform changes and billing industry best practices
- Can demonstrate how AI tools, MCPs and native AI capability within Zuora can be used to shift how work is currently executed
Success Looks Like
- Zuora Billing, Revenue Recognition, and CPQ configuration are stable and well-documented within the first 90 days, Finance and RevOps can rely on the platform with confidence
- A clear backlog of billing system improvements has been established and is actively being worked on, with at least two material improvements delivered within 6 weeks that measurably reduce manual effort or improve billing accuracy
- Finance, RevOps, and Sales teams have a clear, efficient process for raising billing system issues and requests, with resolution times noticeably shorter than at go-live
- Zuora integrations with Salesforce CRM and downstream financial systems are reliable, with data quality issues proactively identified and resolved before they impact Finance reporting
- The Sales team can point to at least one Zuora improvement that has reduced quoting friction or shortened deal cycle times in the first 4 weeks
Key Stakeholders
- Finance Systems Manager (direct manager)
- Finance team, Collections and Revenue Accounting
- Revenue Operations (RevOps) team
- Sales and Deal Desk
- Engineering, integration ownership and technical delivery
- External: payment gateway partners and tax service providers (e.g., Avalara)
More Than A Job
- Equity with high growth potential, and a competitive salary
- Flexible working arrangements
- Access to professional and personal training and development opportunities
- Hackathons, Workshops, Lunch & Learns
- In-house Culinary Crew serving up daily breakfast, lunch and snacks
- Barista coffee machine, craft beer on tap, boutique wines and a range of non-alcoholic beverages
- Wellbeing initiatives such as subsidised fitness programs, EAP services and generous parental leave policy
- Quarterly celebrations and team events
- On-site gym, table tennis, board games, books library, and pet-friendly offices