Director, Revenue Accounting

Overview

This role is responsible for revenue accounting across technology and lending revenue, including the related balance sheet accounts for loans, receivables, and reserves. The Director, Revenue Accounting owns core month-end close processes, builds scalable accounting infrastructure, and partners cross-functionally to support a rapidly growing platform. The loan accounting function reports into this role.

Responsibilities

• Own month-end close for revenue and related balance sheet accounts (loans, receivables, and reserves), accountable for outcomes—not just oversight.
• Prepare and deliver clear, concise reporting on close status, open items, and risk areas to the Controller; proactively escalate issues with recommended solutions.
• Oversee accounting for loan origination, servicing, and sales, as well as technology and platform revenue, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Own the balance sheet accounts tied to revenue—loans, accounts receivable, and reserves—ensuring balances are accurately valued, reconciled, and supported.
• Ensure accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of financial statement reporting; maintain audit-ready documentation for revenue and related balance sheet positions at every close.
• Design scalable accounting frameworks and policies aligned with a growing business.
• Partner with Technical Accounting to establish and maintain revenue recognition policies and controls that hold up under audit and regulatory scrutiny.
• Support new product launches by evaluating the accounting lifecycle from day one so downstream processes are clean and defensible.
• Identify risks and opportunities within the accounting infrastructure early and develop roadmaps to address them.
• Serve as the primary accounting liaison to Product and Engineering for new product launches, assessing accounting implications from inception and ensuring accurate ledger treatment of revenue from day one.
• Manage and grow a high-performing accounting team (including the loan accounting function), setting clear expectations and performance standards.
• Use large, complex data sets to investigate and resolve reconciliation variances across revenue and related balance sheet accounts; drive root-cause analysis and long-term solutions.
• Partner with the Director of Internal Controls on design, documentation, and ongoing monitoring of SOX controls across revenue accounting processes to ensure control effectiveness and audit readiness.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including at least 5 years in a people management role (ideally in fintech, or a high-growth environment with complex or multi-stream revenue).
• Deep knowledge of GAAP revenue recognition, related balance sheet accounting, and reconciliation management at scale.
• Demonstrated experience designing and improving accounting systems and workflows.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to work through large data sets to resolve complex reconciliation variances.
• Experience managing accounting across multiple or diverse revenue streams (preferred).
• Experience with SOX compliance, including maintaining controls in a public company or pre-IPO environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of reporting financial status and risk clearly to Controllers, CFO, or equivalent leadership.
• Experience collaborating directly with Product and Engineering teams and translating accounting requirements into system and operational design.
• Adhere to all organizational security policies and data handling procedures.
• Complete mandatory security awareness training within required timeframes.
• Promptly report suspected security incidents or suspicious activity to the Security team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing accounting across multiple or diverse revenue streams.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary

• Base Compensation Range: $152,000 - $228,000/yr
• 25% annual bonus target, paid quarterly
• Company equity in the form of RSUs

This is the compensation range for the role in the United States. Actual compensation may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, internal equity, and evolving business needs. While most offers are generally made within the middle of the range, final compensation is determined based on the factors above.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage; 100% employer-paid premiums for employees and their dependents on select plans
• Company HSA, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, 401(k), and commuter benefits
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• 11 observed holidays and PTO plan
• Up to 12 weeks of paid family leave
• Continuing education reimbursement

Location & Work Authorization

• This compensation range applies to the United States.
• The organization will not sponsor work visas for this position.
• All persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

Additional notice may apply to California residents regarding applicant data handling.