Director, Revenue Accounting

About the role

The Revenue Accounting Director is a strategic, cross-enterprise leadership role at PTC, a global software company. This role is critical to enabling the company’s strategic evolution by ensuring revenue accounting outcomes align with go-to-market strategy, product innovation, deal structuring, and long-term growth objectives.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic thought partner and trusted advisor to cross-functional stakeholders on revenue recognition implications of commercial strategy, deal structures, new offerings, and M&A transactions.
• Proactively engage early in business initiatives to shape outcomes upstream, ensuring revenue accounting considerations are embedded in decision-making rather than addressed reactively.
• Translate complex accounting requirements into clear, business-relevant guidance that enables speed, scalability, and informed risk-taking.
• Own the design, implementation, and ongoing governance of global revenue accounting policies, systems, controls, and procedures in compliance with ASC 606 and related standards.
• Lead the development and maintenance of revenue accounting policies, position papers, and technical conclusions, including evaluation of new GTM offerings, pricing models, and commercial announcements.
• Partner with Finance Systems, RevOps, and IT to scale revenue accounting processes and tools that support growth, automation, and global consistency.
• Conduct periodic reviews of revenue recognition processes and controls, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, scalability, and control effectiveness.
• Act as a hands-on problem solver, embedding with operational teams to streamline workflows, resolve issues, and elevate technical accounting capabilities across the organization.
• Monitor and interpret emerging accounting standards and regulatory developments, assessing enterprise impact and guiding adoption strategy.
• Lead and execute strategic, cross-functional initiatives such as business unit carveouts, acquisitions, integrations, system transformations, and other complex, non-routine revenue matters.
• Drive alignment between revenue accounting execution and the company’s broader strategic transformation initiatives, ensuring accounting is an enabler—not a bottleneck.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in public accounting and/or technical revenue accounting leadership roles.
• Big 4 public accounting experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field.
• Active CPA license.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep expertise in ASC 606 and revenue recognition within a Software/SaaS business model.
• Demonstrated success partnering with GTM, Legal, Deal Desk, Product, and FP&A in complex, high-growth environments.
• Experience with Oracle, RevPro, Salesforce, and related revenue and finance systems.
• Strong executive-level communication skills, with the ability to influence, educate, and align non-accounting stakeholders.
• Prioritizing analysis of complex data, synthesis of insights, and driving enterprise-level decisions.
• Highly organized, adaptable, and comfortable operating across multiple priorities and stakeholder groups.

Pay

The anticipated annual salary range for this position is between $175,000 - $215,000. The salary range reflects a good-faith estimate of compensation at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on a candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Additionally, candidates may be eligible for a performance-based bonus.

Schedule

This role is hybrid, allowing for flexibility in work arrangements.