Revenue Accountant

Summary

Join Turnitin's Revenue Accounting team and play a critical role in ensuring accurate and compliant revenue recognition. As a Revenue Accountant, you will manage operational and technical aspects of revenue recognition, reviewing customer contracts, performing revenue allocations, and maintaining revenue schedules. You will support monthly and quarterly closes and help build scalable processes for global growth. This role involves collaborating with various teams, including FP&A, Commercial Finance, and Sales Ops, serving as a subject matter expert on revenue-related matters. You will contribute to team OKRs focused on timely and accurate month-end close, improved contract review times, ASC 606 compliance, and system enhancements. The ideal candidate possesses solid accounting experience, attention to detail, and effective communication skills.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field or ACCA/CIMA qualified or progress toward certification strongly preferred
• Minimum 3 years of relevant accounting experience, ideally in SaaS revenue accounting with a focus on ASC 606 (desirable not but not essential)
• Proficiency with ERP and revenue tools (e.g., NetSuite, Salesforce, CPQ)
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A collaborative mindset and willingness to support both strategic and hands-on work

Responsibilities

• Assist in monthly revenue accounting close activities by preparing journal entries and performing key account reconciliations, including those related to revenue, deferred revenue, unbilled receivables
• Assist with revenue reporting and analysis by monitoring customer usage
• Review standard and non-standard contracts to determine the appropriate revenue recognition under U.S. GAAP, ensuring the company is compliant with revenue recognition principles under ASC 606
• Assist in the order to cash process, reviewing submitted sales orders in our accounting system to ensure proper revenue recognition and compliance
• Manage and maintain Net Suite ARM to ensure accurate and compliant revenue recognition in accordance with ASC 606, data validation, reconciliation processes, data flows
• Work cross functionally within the organization to drive automation efforts to streamline accounting operations related to revenue accounting and improve the quality of monthly, quarterly, and annual closes
• Work directly with our sales, customer success, revenue operations, and FP&A teams to obtain needed data and reporting to support monthly revenue entries
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve internal process documentation to ensure clarity, consistency, and operational efficiency across teams
• Perform special technical projects, analysis, and ad hoc reporting
• Play a key role throughout the company financial audit, preparing & reviewing revenue related schedules for external auditors

Benefits

• Remote First Culture
• Health Care Coverage*
• Education Reimbursement*
• Competitive Paid Time Off
• 4 Self-Care Days per year
• National Holidays*
• 2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed
• Paid Volunteer Time*
• Charitable contribution match*
• Monthly Wellness or Home Office Reimbursement/*
• Access to Modern Health (mental health platform)
• Parental Leave*
• Retirement Plan with match/contribution*