Senior Revenue Accountant - ActiveCampaign

Job Title: Senior Revenue Accountant
Job Location: Chicago
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/activecampaign/93d7cf8f-af9e-4c8d-9702-888308553a39
Job Description: Are you a detail-oriented and strategic Revenue Accountant ready to make a significant impact on financial reporting and process efficiency?As our next Senior Revenue Accountant, you won't just be performing routine close tasks – you'll be a key driver of the month-end close process, acting as a financial subject matter expert across the organization to ensure accurate and compliant revenue recognition. You will be at the forefront of optimizing our quote-to-cash process, leveraging technology, including AI tools, to streamline internal processes and provide new business insights. This role is about protecting the integrity of our financials while proactively partnering with sales, legal, and product teams to support business growth and process improvements.
On a typical day, you might:
Understand company's business and assist in all revenue accounting functions to support accurate and timely financial reporting, optimize revenue recognition processes and communicate policies across the organization.
Drive and support the month end close process, including preparing relevant journal entries, balance sheet account reconciliations, and account analysis on period over period account fluctuations.
Support revenue internal reporting needs to key stakeholders throughout the organization, for example deferred revenue and receivable flux reporting.
Perform review and analysis of complex revenue contracts under ASC 606 and apply revenue recognition policies.
Work collaboratively with FP&A and financial reporting and others within the organization to assist in understanding our revenue recognition as well as help provide guidance on revenue trends, variances, and forecast methodology.
Participate in various accounting and billing system projects to promote more timely and accurate financial reporting.
Support business process improvements and projects for quote to cash process.
Collaborate with other departments including sales, legal, billing engineering, and product to support projects and business process improvements as noted above.
Leverage AI to streamline internal processes and develop new insights for the business.
Assist team with international audits, accounting research, and special projects as needed.
The ideal candidate will bring:
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required, CPA or progress towards CPA a plus.
3+ years of relevant accounting experience including recognizing revenue in line with ASC 606 and accounts receivable reconciliations.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables, SUMIFs) and google sheets. Ability to analyze and adapt to new sources of data.
Experience with Netsuite, Floqast, or Zuora a plus.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail and accuracy.
Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with employees at all levels of the organization and manage relationships with external parties.
Ability to identify opportunities for process improvements in reporting and to manage multiple projects that promote system improvements and efficiencies.
Possesses determination and perseverance; ability to find more efficient ways to complete responsibilities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Prior experience with Netsuite or other comparable ERP systems preferred.
SaaS or technology industry experience preferred.
Public accounting experience a plus.