Revenue Accounting Manager

Overview

This role owns technical revenue accounting and drives the financial processes that support billing, revenue recognition, audit readiness, and collections. The organization’s revenue is credit-denominated and consumption-based, including usage billing, prepaid credit drawdown, and concurrency pricing across a growing enterprise base.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical authority for revenue accounting.
• Own the end-to-end Order to Cash cycle, including:
  • Partnering with the sales team
  • Reviewing contracts and assessing terms in accordance with ASC 606
  • Implementing workpapers and schedules
  • Documenting conclusions
  • Supporting billing and collections activities
• Author and maintain revenue accounting policy, including topics such as:
  • Principal versus agent on brokered inference
  • Breakage on expiring credits
  • Performance obligation identification and allocation
  • Minimum commitment versus overage
  • Contract modifications
  • Ensure policies and conclusions withstand external audit scrutiny
• Own the monthly revenue close, including:
  • Revenue recognition
  • Deferred revenue rollforward
  • Contract asset and liability balances
  • Flux analysis
• Own the revenue portion of the external audit, from the PBC list through technical positions.
• Replace manual revenue entries with automated billing-to-revenue reconciliation and a documented exception process, with:
  • Revenue computed by a system and reviewed by a person
  • Invoice accuracy above 99%
  • Root-cause tracking for misses
• Manage revenue-related Order to Cash processes, including:
  • Billing accuracy
  • Dispute resolution
  • AR and collections process with real DSO and aging targets
• Own commission capitalization and amortization under ASC 340-40.
• Review non-standard deal structures before signature to ensure accounting implications are addressed as a decision rather than discovered later.

Requirements

• Licensed CPA with a Big 4 or comparable technical accounting foundation, plus real industry experience in a high-growth startup environment.
• Demonstrable ASC 606 experience with usage-based or consumption revenue.
• Ability to write technical memos that a reviewer can follow without a meeting (facts, guidance, analysis, conclusion).
• Experience assessing GAAP guidance and implementing it in real-world situations.
• Hands-on ownership of a monthly revenue close, including closing revenue through at least one external audit.
• Comfortable serving as a technical authority without extensive support/bench.

Preferred Qualifications

• Billing system implementation or migration experience (Metronome, Stripe, Zuora).
• Pre-IPO or first-audit experience.
• Enough SQL to validate a recognition schedule against raw usage data.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Flexible vacation policy.

Location

• Not specified.