Revenue & AR Accounting Manager

15 Minutes ago • 5 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $130,000 PA - $175,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Outschool is seeking a Revenue & AR Accounting Manager to join their team. This role reports to the Accounting Lead and is crucial in preparing monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements, as well as researching and accounting for complex transactions. The manager will own this process and partner with business leaders to support the company's growth. Key responsibilities include managing revenue accounting operations (order to cash), AR billing and cash application, ensuring timely accounting closes, driving process improvements and automation, applying technical accounting knowledge, and collaborating with cross-functional teams and external auditors.

Must have:

5+ years of experience in a fast-paced environment
Excellent accounting skills and strong GAAP knowledge
Deep understanding of ASC 606 revenue recognition
Excellent Excel and analytical skills
Bias for action and ownership
Tremendous work ethic
Consummate team-player

Good to have:

Bachelor's degree in Accounting
CPA license
Previous financial reporting experience
Hands-on ERP system experience (Netsuite)
Experience in a scaling startup
Strong understanding of SQL

Perks:

Competitive salaries
Stock options
Investment plans
Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
Fertility and family planning coverage
Online access to coaching and therapy
PTO and family leave
Expensable meals
Virtual events
Expensable home office setup
Internet allowance
Annual budgets for professional development
Budgets for employees' learners to take classes
Donation matching to charities

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Job Details

The Company:

Outschool’s mission is to inspire kids to love learning. In our fast-changing world, the traditional educational system struggles to meet the diverse and evolving needs of young learners. Outschool reimagines this system, offering flexible and engaging learning experiences as a supplement and alternative to traditional education. By connecting learners with a global community of teachers and peers through our online platform, we make learning personal, dynamic, and deeply human.

We've made significant strides since launching our marketplace of live online classes in 2017. Finding initial success with secular homeschoolers, we then expanded to enrichment learning to meet the needs of a wider audience, growing our business 16x since 2019. Post-pandemic, we have evolved our platform to power academic learning, incorporated AI, and have begun to grow our international community. We're proud to have served over 1M passionate learners with more than $100M in annual bookings.

Driving disruptive, positive change in education is rewarding and hard. Outschool team members are encouraged to challenge themselves, take risks, and grow in their careers. We look for talented people whose sense of urgency, innate curiosity, and determination to drive impact will help Outschool achieve outsized results in pursuit of our mission. We invite you to be part of an ambitious team dedicated to ensuring every learner can navigate the future with curiosity, resilience, and a love of learning.

About The Role:

As the Revenue & AR Accounting Manager you will report to the Accounting Lead. You’ll play a key role in the preparations of the monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements, researching and accounting for complex transactions. This new opportunity will allow for you to own this process and partner with business leaders to support our growing company.

Core Responsibilities:

Revenue accounting operations (order to cash)
AR billing and cash application
Ensuring timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and year-end accounting close
Driving process improvements and system automation
Application of technical accounting knowledge and concepts to solve business projects and collaboration with auditors and external technical advisors
Partnering with cross functional team key business partners across finance, legal, business operations and others to drive new initiatives and special projects
Preparing journal entries and account reconciliations for the financial statements
Engaging with external auditors on matters related to revenue, order to cash, and accounts receivable

Desired Experience & Skills:

5+ years of experience in a fast paced environment
Excellent accounting skills and strong knowledge of GAAP accounting and financial reporting
Deep understanding of ASC 606 revenue recognition principles and standards & experience applying revenue recognition principles
Excellent Excel as well as analytical and complex spreadsheet skills
Bias for action, ability to take accountability and ownership, be dedicated and resourceful and drive towards solutions with minimal direct supervision in a fast-paced environment
Tremendous work ethic - willingness work hard and really commit when the task requires you to do so while balancing speed and efficiency
Consummate team-player: willingness to do what’s best for the company and the team - humility, coachability, and collaboration in cross-functional team settings
Strong understanding of SQL

Other Considerations:

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
CPA license
Previous financial reporting experience
Hands-on experience with ERP systems (Netsuite)
Experience working in a scaling startup

This role will be based in the Bay Area. The salary range for this role is $130,000-$175,000 USD.

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Outschool Cares:

At Outschool, we believe that taking care of one another enables us to do our best work. To us that means:

Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, and investment plans that make saving for retirement easier.
Health & Wellness: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage options for employees and their families. Our medical benefits include fertility and family planning coverage. We also provide employees with online access to coaching and therapy sessions.
PTO & Family Benefits: PTO and family leave enable our team to take the time that we need to recharge, relax, and spend time with family and friends.
Fully Distributed: We create a remote culture through expensable meals, virtual events, expensable home office setup, and internet allowance.
Lifelong Learners: Annual budgets to self-direct our professional development as well as DEI learning. There’s also a budget for employees’ learners to take classes on Outschool!
Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to established charities and has committed to support Outschool.org’s non-profit programs.

Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and competitive advantage. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.

If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact recruiting@outschool.com.

Benefits packages are included for full-time employees only. Please note benefits and perks may vary for employees based outside of the US and Canada.

Full-time employees must be a citizen or legal residents of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada, unless specifically indicated otherwise.

Once you submit your application, Outschool will process your personal data to evaluate your candidacy for employment. Unless specifically indicated otherwise, we hire employees only in the U.S. and Canada. Applicants else where should be aware that we may discard your application upon submission or we may ask if you would like us to retain it later should there be consideration (this is not typical at all). If you are selected for interviewing, your data will be shared with interviewers and personnel involved in that process. If not hired, your application will be retained for one year in case there is another suitable role. You may opt out of this at any time. Please see our Employee/Applicant Privacy Notice for more detailed information. If applicable, as you progress through the process, we will be clear about what information is being asked for and what happens with that information.