Telecommunications / Billing Officer
Your Team, Your Way
Revenue assuranceDedicated, not shared

Billing Officer

Reconcile carrier invoices against customer billing and usage — investigating exceptions before they become leakage.

This role · right now Screenshot Monitor
On shift · reconciling carrier invoice batch #INV-0472
Active today6h 55m of 8h
Billing system
42%
Excel/Power BI
30%
CRM
18%
Carrier invoices
10%
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Illustrative sample — actual report via screenshotmonitor.com
Stage 01 · Intake

Order Management

Validate and track fixed-line, NBN and mobility orders.

Stage 02 · Provisioning

Provisioning & Activations

Complete approved provisioning tasks and activations.

Stage 03 · Implementation

Service Delivery

Coordinate multi-service deliveries and customer handover.

Stage 04 · Revenue

Billing & Revenue Assurance

Reconcile carrier charges, usage and billing exceptions.

Stage 05 · Assurance

Faults & Customer Assurance

Log, track and escalate faults and customer complaints.

Stage 06 · Managed mobility

Endpoint & Device Management

Keep customer endpoints enrolled, patched and compliant.

Stage 07 · Voice assurance

Telephony & Voice Support

Configure, troubleshoot and maintain hosted voice and telephony platforms.

Order-to-assurance lifecycle shown left to right — this role's stage is highlighted above.
Why Virtual Team

Five reasons clients stay past the first hire

Dedicated

One resource, only yours

No shared queue, no rotating cast. Your dedicated resource works exclusively for you and stays.

Leadership

25 years of Australian market experience

Founder Rohit Sahdev's 25 years in the Australian market, including senior leadership at Telstra, shape how every dedicated team is managed.

Transparent

You always know what your team is doing

Every dedicated resource works behind Screenshot Monitor — auditable activity and reporting, not a black box.

Flexible

No more "That's not my job."

Your dedicated outsourced resource adapts to what your business needs, takes ownership and grows their career by stepping up to new challenges.

Built for now

Capacity without the hiring squeeze

Skilled and reliable operational talent is harder to hire locally right now. A dedicated resource adds capacity without adding to that pressure.

The outcome this role is built for

Less billing leakage and faster exception resolution — because discrepancies are caught in reconciliation, not discovered in a customer complaint.

Role scope

What this role owns day to day

Core responsibilities

  • Reconcile carrier charges against customer billing
  • Cross-check usage and service inventories for discrepancies
  • Investigate and document billing exceptions
  • Flag leakage and recurring discrepancy patterns for review

Works inside

Billing systemsCarrier invoicesExcel/Power BICRM

Reported on weekly

Billing accuracyReconciled charges matching source data
Leakage identifiedRevenue discrepancies caught and flagged
Exception closureTime to resolve flagged billing exceptions
Reconciliation timelinessCycle completed within agreed schedule
Flexibility

Works your hours. Picks up the work.

Australian business hours

Aligned to your primary time zone and holiday calendar for day-to-day coverage.

9am–5pm style coverage, matched to your roster

Extended coverage

Stretch shift start/end times around carrier appointment windows and peak order volume.

Early-start or late-finish shifts, by agreement

Round-the-clock rotation

Rotating dedicated resources for genuine 24-hour coverage on faults and urgent exceptions.

Multiple dedicated seats, handover documented

What "no that's not my job" looks like in practice: a discrepancy doesn't fit the usual exception categories — it still gets investigated and documented properly instead of being written off as "probably fine."

What stays with your authorised staff

Credits, write-offs and payment approvals remain with your authorised personnel. This role identifies and documents exceptions — it doesn't approve financial adjustments.

Why this role is hard to scale locally

The market backdrop for revenue-assurance hires

329,500 vacancies

job vacancies were recorded across Australia in May 2026 — 293,800 of them in the private sector.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, May 2026
3.3% wage growth

Australian wage growth over the year to the March quarter 2026 (3.2% in the private sector), raising the cost of hiring locally.

Source: ABS Wage Price Index, March quarter 2026
42% want 24/7

of Australian customers surveyed wanted a 24/7 contact option — a service window most local-only teams can't cover alone.

Source: ServiceNow Customer Experience Research

Statistics checked in July 2026 from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and ServiceNow. See our Challenges We Solve page for full sourcing and context.

Not exclusive to telcos

The same skillset, in industries that never call themselves "telco"

Strip away the carrier-specific tools and this role is a recognisable shape: manage an order or case through defined stages, reconcile exceptions, and communicate clearly against a deadline.

Common today

Doing this in-house with stretched staff, or paying a third party

  • Reconciliation competes with other finance-team priorities
  • Discrepancies surface late, after revenue is already lost
  • Exception backlogs grow as invoice volume increases
The alternative

A dedicated billing officer, outsourced to us

  • One resource whose only job is catching billing discrepancies
  • Reports to your own finance or ops manager, not a third party
  • Same Screenshot Monitor transparency, direct to you
Where this shape of role also fits

Utilities & Energy Retail

Usage-based billing reconciliation against supplier charges is the same revenue-assurance discipline.

Billing platforms

SaaS & Subscription Businesses

Recurring-revenue reconciliation and leakage detection map directly onto subscription billing.

Billing/finance systems

Insurance & Financial Services

Premium reconciliation follows the same pattern as carrier billing reconciliation.

Policy/finance systems

Logistics & Freight

Freight invoice reconciliation is a near-identical exception-hunting exercise.

TMS · Excel/Power BI
Transparent reporting, on this role too
Screenshot Monitor active
Daily
Activity & app-usage log
Weekly
Reviewed with your team lead

No guessing what this role worked on. Full sample report on the Telecommunications page →

How it works

Discovery, role design, and a candidate you interview yourself.

You define outcomes, tools and work hours. We source, screen and put forward candidates you interview and approve. Once live, your resource follows your systems, escalation model and reporting cadence — reviewed together on a schedule you set.

See the full onboarding model
Common questions

Questions about hiring a dedicated Billing Officer

Cost depends on experience level, working hours and specific responsibilities. Tell us your requirements and we'll put together a proposal for a dedicated Billing Officer.
Yes — working hours are agreed during setup to align with your operational needs, whether that's standard Australian business hours or extended coverage.
A dedicated Billing Officer works exclusively for your business, inside your own systems, reporting to your nominated manager — not a shared resource split across an agency's other clients.
We shortlist candidates against your actual role requirements, you interview and approve before anyone starts, and your dedicated resource is trained on your specific systems and processes from day one.
Your Team, Your Way

Ready to add this role to your team?

Tell us your invoice volumes and billing platforms — we'll shortlist candidates against your actual task list.

Start team design Back to Telecommunications or call 0405 550 999

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