Revenue assurance, finance control and billing operations teams
| Step | What the customer experiences | What the operator does |
|---|---|---|
| The momentThe moment that started it. | Month end: the provisioning system says a service is live, the charging system says it was charged, and the bill says something else. | Reads extracts from provisioning, charging and billing, matching keys and their quality, known differences and their reasons, ownership by exception type. |
| The decisionThe decision to be made. | Nothing reaches the customer yet. | Reconciles expected against actual across the three ledgers, quantifies each difference as an exception and assigns it an owner. |
| The safeguardsThe conditions that stop it. | Still nothing. No action is sent until every check has passed. | Source completeness, matching-key quality, known-difference suppression and ownership checks pass. |
| The actionThe action that reaches the customer. | Route each exception to its owner for correction in the billing or charging system; suppress the known differences with their reason. Reaches them on Finance workbench, in English. | Recommends. The system that holds the right confirms, charges or provisions. |
| When it goes wrongRefusal, failure and recovery. | A matching key changed format in one system and half the month's records fall out as exceptions that are not real. | The matching-key quality check fails the run before the exceptions are assigned, the key mapping is corrected, and the re-run is compared with the first so the false exceptions are shown as such. |
| The resultThe change it made. | What changed for them is what is counted; nothing else is claimed. | Revenue recovered or prevented, against the exceptions written off. |
| The proofThe proof anyone can check. | Can be answered for, later, from the record. | Source extracts, matching rules, exception list with values, owner assignment, correction record and the revenue and outcome ledger. |

