Senior Revenue Accountant
Overview
Join a fast-paced Revenue Accounting team as a hands-on Senior Revenue Accountant supporting complex customer contracts, deal reviews, and critical month-end close activities. This contract role is ideal for an analytical accounting professional who is comfortable working in a constantly changing, unstructured environment and can independently drive projects from initial analysis through completion.
You will play a key role in evaluating revenue recognition considerations, supporting cross-functional deal discussions, maintaining audit-ready workbooks, and strengthening revenue accounting processes. The successful candidate will bring deep ASC 606 knowledge, strong technical accounting judgment, and the ability to communicate complex conclusions clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
What You’ll Do
- Review complex and non-standard customer contracts and deals for revenue recognition implications.
- Prepare contract summaries and technical accounting memos in accordance with ASC 606.
- Identify performance obligations, determine standalone selling prices, and assess variable consideration.
- Partner with Sales, Legal, and Deal Desk teams to advise on revenue recognition and compliant commercial terms.
- Prepare and maintain accurate, audit-ready internal control workbooks.
- Validate data accuracy and completeness using system reports and drive workbooks through completion.
- Execute monthly revenue accounting activities in NetSuite, including journal entries and deferred revenue and accounts receivable reconciliations.
- Support month-end close deliverables and revenue-related validations.
- Assist with quarterly accounts receivable and revenue disclosures and financial reporting schedules.
- Support collections forecasting, accounts receivable analysis, and Order-to-Cash activities.
- Ensure supporting schedules tie accurately to the general ledger and are prepared for audit review.
- Communicate project and close status clearly, proactively identify technical accounting issues, and recommend appropriate follow-up actions.
- Contribute to projects that improve the broader revenue accounting process.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant revenue accounting experience.
- Strong experience in software or SaaS environments.
- Hands-on expertise with ASC 606.
- Demonstrated experience reviewing complex software contracts and preparing deal summaries.
- Experience preparing audit-ready control workpapers and explaining the purpose and intent of related controls.
- Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas, data validation, and modeling large data sets.
- Proficiency with NetSuite and Salesforce.
- Experience with accounts receivable analysis, collections forecasting, and Order-to-Cash workflows.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to translate complex technical accounting concepts for non-finance stakeholders.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, constantly changing, and unstructured environment.
- Self-directed, hands-on approach with strong attention to detail.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- CPA license or active CPA candidacy.
- Experience supporting cross-functional deal desk processes.
- Experience with revenue-related disclosures and financial reporting schedules.
- Experience contributing to continuous improvement initiatives within revenue accounting.
- Experience with Odoo is not required.
Preferred Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Five or more years of relevant revenue accounting experience, preferably within a software or SaaS organization.
Other Requirements
- Ongoing contract position.
- Fully onsite, five days per week, in Palo Alto, California.
- Must be comfortable working in a rapidly evolving environment and managing responsibilities with limited structure.
- Strong ownership, judgment, and follow-through are essential for success in this role.
