Senior Accountant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the complete monthly billing cycle, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and ongoing enhancements from source data to invoice delivery.

• Prepare and produce monthly customer invoices across various delivery platforms, which includes import file preparation, data validation, and invoice generation in Sage Intacct.

• Convert exam delivery, volume, and hours data from multiple source systems into precise, invoice-ready billing.

• Individually review high-value and complex customer billings prior to release, particularly for customers billing across various platforms or entities.

• Validate billing in accordance with contract terms, including tier pricing thresholds, minimum and maximum commitments, and overage calculations.

• Examine subscription and prepaid contracts each period to identify any additional billings or credits necessary.

• Conduct billing quality control across platforms and currencies, identifying and rectifying discrepancies before release.

• Ensure billing completeness controls are maintained and confirm that all invoicing is delivered at each close.

• Oversee the credit memo process from start to finish, including review, approval routing, issuance, and effective communication with customers.

• Act as the billing and account point of contact for customers, providing professional communication and promptly resolving billing and account inquiries.

• Calculate monthly partner payouts and revenue shares by customer, supported by detailed workpapers.

• Reconcile partner revenue share to recognized revenue and prepare true-up entries for any discrepancies.

• Guarantee accurate and consistent revenue recognition in alignment with ASC 606 and internal policies.

• Perform customer-level reconciliations of AR, Unbilled Revenue, and Deferred Revenue balances, investigating variances against the general ledger and source data.

• Reconcile eCommerce and payment processor clearing accounts, including Stripe, ensuring transactions are accurately cleared between the payment platform and the general ledger.

• Utilize Power BI to aid billing and revenue reporting, including working within existing reports and data models that support current billing processes.

• Develop and uphold standard operating procedures for processes under your ownership to ensure consistency and knowledge continuity.

• Identify opportunities to streamline and automate recurring processes, collaborating with upstream teams to enhance data quality at the source.

• Cross-train team members and provide backup on essential close tasks to ensure team continuity and resilience.

• Contribute to initiatives aimed at automation and system optimization across the revenue function.

• Adhere to close deadlines within a compressed business-day calendar, maintaining clear task dependencies.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and/or Finance is required.

• A minimum of 5+ years of accounting experience is necessary, including significant time in revenue accounting, billing operations, or a similar high-volume transactional setting.

• Chartered Accountant (CA), CPA, ACCA, or an equivalent professional qualification is required.

• Working knowledge of ASC 606 revenue recognition and its practical implementation is essential.

• Comprehensive understanding of accounting procedures, including the month-end closing process, journal entry preparation, reconciliations, financial reports, and variance analysis.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel: handling large data sets, utilizing lookups, pivot tables, and structured, formula-driven reconciliation workpapers.

• A strong operational and process-oriented mindset, capable of recognizing the workflow behind the numbers and continuously improving work processes.

• Detail-oriented with a professional attitude, reliable, and possesses strong organizational and time management skills.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. This role requires interaction with both internal stakeholders and external partners.

• Strong work ethic and ability to build effective working relationships with customers and others throughout the organization.

• Experience with Sage Intacct is preferred, especially concerning revenue contracts, order entry, and data imports.

• Experience in multi-currency and multi-entity consolidation is desirable (preferably in the US and Canada).

• Familiarity with Power BI or similar analytics tools, with experience in building reports or models rather than merely consuming them.

• Experience in automating recurring accounting processes using tools like Power Query, SQL, or Python is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company-Sponsored Health Insurance

• Remote Work Opportunity

• Competitive Pay

• Healthy Work Culture

• Career Growth Opportunities

• Learning and Development Opportunities

• Referral Award Program

• Company Provided IT Equipment