Revenue Accountant

Intercom Intercom · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Finance & Business Operations

This role is for a Revenue Accountant at Intercom, an AI Customer Agent company. The primary focus is on supporting and scaling revenue accounting operations, ensuring compliance with ASC 606, and collaborating with various teams to ensure accurate and timely revenue recognition. The role involves assisting with monthly close processes, preparing reconciliations and analyses, and contributing to automation and process improvement initiatives. While the company is AI-focused, this role is in accounting and does not involve building or directly working with AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Assist in day-to-day revenue accounting activities to ensure compliance with ASC 606, internal policies, and external audits
  2. Support the monthly revenue close process, including preparation of journal entries, reconciliations, and reporting deliverables
  3. Prepare revenue and AR-related account reconciliations and analyses to support general ledger balances
  4. Assist with revenue recognition for SaaS subscriptions, usage-based revenue, overages, ramped contracts, and other non-standard arrangements under ASC 606
  5. Partner with Revenue Operations, Finance Systems, and Data teams to ensure completeness and accuracy of revenue-related data

Skills

Required

  • 2–3 years of experience in public accounting and/or industry
  • Strong understanding of accounting principles and foundational knowledge of ASC 606
  • Highly proficient in Excel
  • Ability to perform tasks with a high degree of accuracy and timeliness
  • Strong analytical, research, and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment while maintaining accuracy
  • Strong collaboration skills and ability to work cross-functionally with Finance, Systems, Data, and GTM teams

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
  • CPA or progress toward CPA is a strong plus
  • Experience working in NetSuite (NetSuite ARM experience preferred)
  • Experience with SaaS and/or usage-based revenue models
  • Familiarity with Stripe, Salesforce (SFDC), and Snowflake is a plus
  • Knowledge of ASC 606 and revenue recognition concepts
  • Interest in automation, AI tools, and process improvement initiatives
  • Experience supporting audits and maintaining process documentation and controls