Revenue Accounting Project Manager

Overview

This role supports the development and standardization of revenue accounting processes and the systems that enable them. While you will not perform the monthly close, you will shape requirements and drive cross-functional execution with Accounting and Data/Engineering partners to ensure revenue processes are consistent, auditable, and scalable.

You will work across multiple revenue streams, each with its own systems, maturity level, and open questions. Success requires strong accounting fundamentals (including US GAAP and ASC 606), disciplined project management, and the ability to translate accounting treatment and judgment into operational processes and system configuration logic.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Senior Revenue Accounting Manager to shape the accounting initiative roadmap by surfacing process gaps, risks, and opportunities.
• Own scoping and prioritization for assigned workstreams once priorities are set.
• Design and standardize accounting processes and controls across revenue streams—independent of any single system—so operations run consistently as the business scales.
• Provide end-to-end project management for revenue accounting initiatives, including:
  • Scoping requirements
  • Sequencing workstreams
  • Tracking open items across stakeholders
  • Driving work to completion against deadlines
• Act as a bridge between Accounting and Data/Engineering, Finance, and Product by gathering requirements, resolving ambiguity between teams, and ensuring decisions are reflected accurately across functions.
• Translate accounting treatment and technical judgment into system requirements and configuration logic for ERP/revenue recognition systems, partnering with implementation and internal engineering resources.
• Investigate data quality and process breakdowns by working directly with underlying datasets, tracing issues to root cause and partnering with Data/Engineering to fix at the source.
• Build and maintain documentation, mapping logic, and handoff materials that convert undocumented or ad hoc knowledge into clear, auditable, repeatable procedures.
• Prepare organized documentation and data support for external audit and advisory partners upon request, without directly owning the audit relationship.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive experience spanning accounting and either project management, business/systems analysis, or accounting operations.
• Big 4 public accounting experience is strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Solid understanding of US GAAP and ASC 606 revenue recognition, including application to subscription or service-based revenue models—strong enough to shape requirements and standards without performing the close.
• Demonstrated project management ability to independently scope, sequence, and drive cross-functional initiatives to completion.
• Experience designing or standardizing operational processes and controls (not only executing within existing processes).
• Strong data skills, comfortable working directly in large or imperfect datasets (Excel, SQL, or similar) to investigate issues.
• Proven cross-functional experience with non-accounting teams (data, engineering, product, or finance), translating accounting requirements into technical/operational execution.
• Clear, precise written and verbal communication, with the ability to document process and judgment calls so others can follow without you present.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience scoping, configuring, and testing ERP or revenue recognition system implementations (e.g., NetSuite, Rillet, Zuora, or similar) as an accounting stakeholder.
• SQL or other data-querying experience sufficient to independently investigate transaction-level data.
• CPA certification (or equivalent).
• Experience with subscription-based, membership, or consumer health/tech business models.
• Hands-on experience using AI or automation tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, advanced Excel/Sheets) in accounting or process-improvement workflows.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Flexible working hours.

Location

• Not specified in the provided job description.