Revenue Accountant

Clay · Vertical AI · New York, NY · Finance

This role is for a Revenue Accountant at a hypergrowth company. The primary responsibilities include executing end-to-end billing operations, supporting the order-to-cash cycle, reconciling customer balances, and handling customer billing inquiries. The role also involves revenue accounting, including revenue recognition in accordance with ASC 606, preparing schedules, executing month-end close activities, and supporting audits. A key aspect of the role is contributing to the automation of billing workflows using AI and modern tooling, and improving upstream data quality. The ideal candidate has 4-6 years of accounting experience, an active CPA, experience with billing and payment systems (Stripe preferred), and data fluency. Experience with SQL, Big Four accounting, or high-growth SaaS startups are considered nice-to-haves.

What you'd actually do

  1. Execute end-to-end billing operations including invoice generation, collections, cash application, and AR management
  2. Support the full order-to-cash cycle, partnering with Deal Desk to ensure contracts and amendments are accurately reflected in billing systems
  3. Reconcile customer credit consumption and prepaid balances across systems (Stripe, CPQ, and GL) to ensure accuracy and completeness
  4. Contribute to automation of billing workflows using AI and modern tooling to build smarter, more scalable processes
  5. Support revenue recognition in accordance with ASC 606, with a strong focus on consumption based revenue recognition

Skills

Required

  • 4-6 years of progressive accounting experience with meaningful exposure to both billing operations and revenue accounting
  • Active CPA required
  • Solid knowledge of ASC 606 and US GAAP revenue principles, including consumption based revenue models
  • Hands-on experience with billing and payment systems (Stripe experience strongly preferred)
  • Data fluency — comfortable working with large datasets and using data to diagnose billing and revenue issues
  • Excellent written communication skills

Nice to have

  • Big Four or public accounting background strongly preferred
  • Experience at a high-growth SaaS startup
  • Experience with customer support tooling (Zendesk, Intercom)
  • SQL skills are a strong plus

What the JD emphasized

  • Active CPA required
  • Proven track record of finding creative ways to automate and streamline processes — whether through a billing or revenue systems implementation, AI tooling, or workflow automation
  • Solid knowledge of ASC 606 and US GAAP revenue principles, including consumption based revenue models