Director, Revenue Accounting & Consolidation

Overview

This role involves leading revenue accounting, the close and consolidation process, financial reporting, audit readiness, and accounting-process improvement across a growing, multi-entity global business.

The position serves as an internal accounting leader for finance stabilization and transformation initiatives. The director will resolve historical revenue-accounting and contract-data matters, establish repeatable controlled processes, and partner across Finance Operations, Finance Systems, Tax, Legal, business leadership, and external advisors to embed sustainable outcomes into ongoing operations. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring technical judgment, strong execution, and the ability to operate effectively amid incomplete data and evolving systems.

Chicago-based candidates preferred; candidates from the New England region will also be considered.

Responsibilities

• Own revenue accounting under ASC 606, including contract review, identification of performance obligations, standalone selling-price considerations, revenue recognition, deferred-revenue accounting, and related controls.
• Lead the accounting work required to complete and sustain FY24/FY25 remediation, including customer-to-contract, contract-to-billing, billing-to-revenue, cash-to-AR, and revenue-to-GL reconciliations; deferred-revenue rollforwards; and appropriately supported accounting adjustments.
• Establish a timely, repeatable monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, including close calendars, account reconciliations, review controls, issue escalation, and documentation standards.
• Lead multi-entity consolidation, including entity reporting packages, intercompany accounting and eliminations, foreign-entity coordination, and consolidated financial reporting support.
• Act as a controllership business owner for consolidation-process design and finance transformation initiatives, including business requirements, accounting design, testing, user acceptance, parallel close, control design, and adoption for any systems upgrades.
• Partner with Finance Systems and IT on data flows, master-data requirements, source-of-truth standards, and the NetSuite/ERP integration roadmap (Finance Systems and IT retain responsibility for technical solution design and implementation).
• Partner with Finance Operations (which owns invoicing and collections execution) to ensure billing, AR, contract, and cash data support complete and accurate accounting and revenue recognition.
• Lead audit readiness, including PBC coordination, accounting memoranda, support for audit requests, remediation of audit findings, and delivery against the external-audit and statutory-reporting calendar.
• Support accounting for acquisitions and integrations, including purchase accounting, opening-balance-sheet activities, accounting-policy harmonization, entity onboarding, and post-close reporting integration.
• Establish and maintain accounting policies and procedures, including intercompany processes and coordination with Tax on transfer-pricing requirements.
• Direct and develop accounting team members; set clear accountability, build capabilities, and reduce key-person dependencies.
• Manage and challenge external advisors: define accounting requirements, review analyses and recommendations, approve accounting conclusions, and ensure deliverables are fully documented and operationalized.

Accountability Scope

This role owns:

• Revenue-recognition conclusions and revenue-accounting results
• Deferred-revenue accounting and revenue-related reconciliations
• Close-process execution, accounting controls, and issue escalation
• Consolidation-process ownership, including intercompany accounting and eliminations
• Accounting-policy decisions and supporting documentation
• Audit support, PBC ownership, and remediation of accounting findings
• Accounting requirements, testing, validation, and adoption for remediation and transformation initiatives
• Sustainable process ownership after external support concludes

Finance Transformation Office owns:

• Program governance and integrated workplan management
• Executive reporting and transformation portfolio oversight
• Cross-functional milestone, dependency, risk, and issue management
• Coordination across workstreams and external providers

Finance Operations owns:

• Billing, invoicing, cash application, collections, and operational AR execution
• Operational customer and transaction data required to support accounting

Finance Systems and IT owns:

• Technical architecture, system configuration, integrations, data engineering, and production support
• Technical implementation of NetSuite, OneStream, and related platforms

External consultants own:

• Agreed remediation-project execution, data analysis, reconciliations, process assessments, and supporting documentation
• Technical accounting recommendations and implementation support, subject to approval by the employer

Qualifications

• Active CPA required.
• 12+ years of progressive accounting experience, including significant leadership responsibility in a complex, multi-entity environment.
• Deep ASC 606, contract accounting, deferred revenue, close, consolidation, and intercompany-accounting experience.
• Demonstrated success leading historical accounting cleanup or remediation while designing sustainable processes and controls.
• Strong external-audit management experience, including PBC coordination, audit issue resolution, and preparation of technical accounting support.
• Experience with acquisitions, purchase accounting, opening-balance-sheet activities, and integration of acquired entities strongly preferred.
• Experience working across multiple legal entities and international operations; exposure to statutory reporting and transfer-pricing coordination preferred.
• NetSuite experience strongly preferred; OneStream or comparable consolidation/EPM implementation experience preferred.
• Private-equity-backed, acquisitive, or rapidly transforming-company experience strongly preferred.
• Big Four or comparable public-accounting experience preferred.
• Proven ability to lead teams, influence cross-functional partners, and make sound decisions in a high-accountability environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with acquisitions and integrations, including purchase accounting and opening-balance-sheet activities.
• Exposure to statutory reporting and transfer-pricing coordination.
• NetSuite and OneStream (or comparable consolidation/EPM) experience.
• Big Four or comparable public-accounting experience.

Compensation & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with employer matching.
• Generous paid time off and holidays.
• Flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Training and development opportunities.
• Adoption assistance program.

Location

Chicago-based candidates preferred; candidates from the New England region will be considered.

This role is open to candidates legally authorized to work in the United States.