Revenue Accountant
Glean Work is hiring a Revenue Accountant in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
AI in this role
Manages key accounting processes across sales commissions, revenue, and cost of revenue applying US GAAP and ASC 606 fundamentals.
- Own the monthly commission accounting workflow from plan and payout inputs through accruals, capitalization, amortization, expense recognition, actuals, and reconciliation.
- Evaluate which commission costs should be expensed versus capitalized and maintain support for the accounting conclusion.
- Prepare and review commission accruals, commission payable entries, reversals, deferred commission entries, and amortization schedules.
- Reconcile commission payable, deferred commission, commission expense, payroll, contractor bills, and cash-related activity across entities and periods.
- Investigate variances between estimates, accruals, approved payouts, payroll actuals, and final settlement amounts.
- Partner with Sales Operations, Payroll, Accounting Operations, and Finance Systems to resolve plan, eligibility, hierarchy, mapping, and data-quality exceptions.
- Maintain clear documentation of the commission computation, accounting treatment, journal-entry flow, review controls, and open items.
- Support the monthly and quarterly cost of revenue close, including completeness, cut-off, classification, allocations, reconciliations, and flux analysis.
- Prepare allocation workpapers for cloud, LLM, hosting, support, on-call, and other relevant costs using documented drivers; investigate material movements and data gaps.
- Provide backup coverage for revenue accounting and contract reviews during peak periods and planned absences.
- Review commercial arrangements and support ASC 606 conclusions relating to contract modifications, material rights, variable consideration, standalone selling price, and deferred revenue.
- Prepare concise accounting analyses and translate conclusions into journal entries, revenue schedules, reconciliations, and controls.
- Prepare audit-ready schedules, reconciliations, workpapers, and explanations for internal and external audit requests.
- Support walkthroughs, PBC requests, sampling, issue resolution, and remediation tracking.
- Design and execute reviewer controls over commission, revenue, and cost of revenue processes, including completeness, accuracy, cut-off, approval, and evidence-retention controls.
- Maintain SOPs, process narratives, control descriptions, and recurring close checklists.
- Escalate accounting judgments, control exceptions, data limitations, and close risks early and clearly.
- Partner with Finance Systems and process owners to improve NetSuite, spreadsheets, data integrations, reconciliations, and reporting workflows.
- Identify and support practical automation and AI opportunities while maintaining data validation, human review, controls, and auditability.
- Work closely with Sales Operations, Revenue, Payroll, FP&A, Tax, Legal, and other stakeholders to resolve data issues, exceptions, and close dependencies.
- Communicate accounting requirements clearly and drive timely follow-up on inputs, approvals, and open items.
- Chartered Accountant, CPA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification preferred.
- 1–3 years of experience in accounting, audit, financial reporting, or a related finance role, with exposure to month-end close and reconciliations.
- Working knowledge of US GAAP; exposure to ASC 606, commission accounting, revenue, or cost of revenue is an advantage but not required.
- Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills; experience with NetSuite or another ERP and interest in automation or AI are preferred.
- Clear communication, attention to detail, ownership, learning agility, and ability to work effectively across teams.
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This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Bangalore office)
Compensation & Benefits:
Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.
We are a diverse bunch of people, and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.#LI-HYBRID
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How we rate this
Revenue Accountant at Glean Work rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
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