Director, Revenue Accounting

22 Hours ago • 10 Years + • $187,000 PA - $228,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Director of Revenue Accounting will lead global revenue accounting operations and ensure compliance with ASC 606. This role involves partnering with various teams and ensuring accuracy in revenue recognition, building scalable processes, and supporting IPO readiness. Responsibilities include contract review, technical accounting, and monthly close processes. The role also includes overseeing revenue recognition, deferred revenue, and contract assets. The Director will also collaborate with Legal and Sales Operations on deal desk support and contract structuring and support quarterly and annual financial statement audits. This role involves mentoring a team, supporting system implementations, and contributing to IPO readiness.
Must have:
  • Own global revenue accounting, including contract review and monthly revenue close.
  • Be an expert on ASC 606 and related SEC guidance.
  • Lead scalable, SOX-compliant revenue processes and systems.
  • Establish controls and procedures for revenue recognition.
  • Oversee accounting for non-standard contracts and usage-based pricing.
  • Support quarterly and annual financial statement audits.
  • Partner with FP&A and Investor Relations for revenue KPIs.
  • Mentor and develop a high-performing revenue accounting team.
  • Support system implementations or enhancements.
Good to have:
  • IPO readiness or public company experience
  • Familiarity with international revenue operations and FX impacts.
  • Strong project management skills in system implementations.
  • Experience with board-level reporting.

Job Details

About AlphaSense: 

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.

The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!

About the Role: 

The Director of Revenue Accounting will lead our global revenue accounting operations and ensure compliance with ASC 606. This individual will be a key leader in the controllership organization and will partner cross-functionally with Legal, Sales, FP&A, Billing, and Systems teams. This role is critical to ensuring accuracy in revenue recognition, building scalable processes, and supporting IPO-readiness.

Who You Are:

  • Own all aspects of global revenue accounting, including contract review, technical accounting conclusions, and monthly revenue close processes.
  • Serve as the company’s internal subject matter expert on ASC 606 and related SEC guidance.
  • Lead the design and execution of scalable, SOX-compliant revenue processes and systems (e.g., NetSuite, Salesforce, CPQ, RevPro/Zuora/Celigo).
  • Establish controls and procedures for completeness and accuracy of revenue recognition, deferred revenue, contract assets, and other related areas.
  • Collaborate with Legal and Sales Operations on deal desk support and contract structuring.
  • Oversee the accounting for non-standard contracts, usage-based pricing, variable consideration, and multi-element arrangements.
  • Support quarterly and annual financial statement audits, including technical memos and disclosures.
  • Partner with FP&A and Investor Relations to ensure accurate forecasting and presentation of revenue KPIs and trends.
  • Mentor and develop a high-performing revenue accounting team and oversee hiring plans as needed.
  • Support system implementations or enhancements involving order-to-cash and revenue processes.
  • Contribute to IPO readiness efforts, including audit preparedness, SOX documentation, and S-1 disclosures.

What You’ll Do: 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting; CPA required.
  • 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including public accounting (Big 4 preferred) and SaaS/technology industry roles.
  • Deep knowledge of ASC 606 and SaaS revenue recognition practices, including contract modifications, usage-based pricing, and standalone selling price allocation.
  • Demonstrated experience with internal controls over revenue recognition (SOX 404).
  • Experience with ERP and revenue automation systems (e.g., NetSuite, Salesforce, CPQ, Celigo).
  • Proven leadership and team-building capabilities in high-growth environments.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience interacting with auditors, executives, and cross-functional teams.
  • IPO readiness or public company experience preferred.
  • Familiarity with international revenue operations and FX impacts preferred.
  • Strong project management skills, especially in system implementations or business process transformation preferred.
  • Experience with board-level reporting preferred.

AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

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