Telecommunications: Billing and Revenue Assurance
Billing and revenue assurance covers rating and bill run validation, usage reconciliation, dispute handling, adjustments and leakage investigation. Analysts compare mediation and rating outputs against billing results, investigate unrated or mis-rated usage and process credits for disputed charges. The work spans Amdocs or Oracle BRM billing, mediation tools, SQL query tools, Excel and the finance ERP.
Billing and Revenue Assurance in Telecommunications
Billing and revenue assurance covers rating and bill run validation, usage reconciliation, dispute handling, adjustments and leakage investigation. Analysts compare mediation and rating outputs against billing results, investigate unrated or mis-rated usage and process credits for disputed charges. The work spans Amdocs or Oracle BRM billing, mediation tools, SQL query tools, Excel and the finance ERP.
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What Pyze Measures
- Time spent on investigation versus adjustment per exception
- Query and spreadsheet usage during reconciliation
- Approval wait time for credits and adjustments
- Analyst workload across bill cycles and exception categories
Typical Findings
- Analysts extract rating and billing records with query tools and compare them in spreadsheets during bill run validation.
- Credit adjustments pass through several approvers by email before they are posted to the account.
- Reconciliation of billed revenue to the general ledger is repeated by separate teams using separate extracts.
What the Opportunity Register Supports
- Supports automation of recurring reconciliation checks and exception triage.
- Quantifies time spent in approval queues for adjustments by category.
- Supports consistent dispute reason codes to improve root cause reporting.
Example Opportunities
- 1.Unrated Usage Investigation Across Mediation and Billing AI Agent Agentify
- 2.Spreadsheet Reconciliation of Bill Run Totals Integration Simplify
- 3.Credit Adjustment Approval Routing RPA Automate
- 4.Dispute Reason Coding Variation Between Teams Standardization Standardize
- 5.Month-End Exception Peaks on a Small Analyst Group UX Rebalance
Roles and Titles
- Chief Financial Officer
- Head of Customer Operations
Chief Customer Officer, VP Customer Operations, Head of Contact Center
Billing and Revenue Assurance in Other Industries
Other Telecommunications Functions
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A measured baseline before anything changes, then a priced and owned list of what to do about the gaps.