Senior Revenue Accountant
About the role
We’re looking for a Senior Revenue Accountant to join our Finance team. This role is designed for someone who brings deep expertise in subscription billing, a foundational understanding of revenue accounting principles, the systems fluency to navigate complexity and build scalable solutions, and a genuine appetite for applying AI to make billing smarter and faster.
Responsibilities
Own the full billing lifecycle, serve as the internal expert on Zuora, and be a trusted partner to both customers and cross-functional teams.
Support month-end close activities, including revenue-related reconciliations and journal entry support tied to billing.
Use AI tools to accelerate reconciliation checks and surface variances that require human review.
Flag and escalate billing scenarios with complex revenue recognition implications for proper treatment.
Own the end-to-end collections process, monitor aging balances, prioritize outreach on overdue accounts, and resolve outstanding invoices.
Maintain accurate AR reporting and support month-end close by reconciling cash receipts and applying payments in Zuora, surfacing DSO trends and collection risk to Finance leadership and driving ongoing improvements to collections efficiency.
Own end-to-end billing operations for a global customer base, manage complex subscription scenarios, and leverage AI tooling to detect anomalies, reduce manual intervention, and scale with confidence.
Investigate and resolve billing discrepancies, invoicing errors, and escalated issues with a high degree of accuracy and urgency whilst using AI-assisted diagnostics to identify patterns and root causes faster.
Manage renewals, adjustments, and amendments in Zuora, ensuring all billing actions are executed correctly and in alignment with contract terms.
Represent the billing function externally with confidence and a solutions-oriented approach.
Review customer agreements and order forms to ensure billing setup accurately reflects negotiated terms, pricing structures, and any custom provisions.
Advise internal stakeholders on how contract terms translate into billing and revenue recognition implications.
Collaborate with Legal, Sales, and Finance on billing-related contract language and escalations as needed.
Serve as the internal subject matter expert on Zuora, owning configuration, troubleshooting, and optimization of billing workflows within the platform.
Use AI-powered tooling to streamline billing workflows, including anomaly detection in invoicing, automated reconciliation checks, and intelligent flagging of discrepancies before they escalate to customers or impact close.
Leverage AI-assisted tools to improve the speed and quality of customer communications, contract reviews, and internal SOPs, while maintaining the judgment to know when human review is essential.
Contribute to the finance team's AI adoption by testing new tools, documenting billing-specific use cases, and sharing learnings acting as the billing SME who helps define where automation adds the most value.
Partners with Revenue Accounting to explore AI applications in revenue recognition, including automated recognition schedules, variance flagging, and generating audit-ready documentation tied to billing data.
Document workflows, edge cases, and standard operating procedures to support team scalability and knowledge sharing, using AI-assisted tools to draft, maintain, and improve documentation at pace.
Work closely with Sales, Finance, Accounting, Revenue Operations, and Customer Success to ensure seamless billing execution and alignment on revenue matters.
Provide billing and systems guidance to internal stakeholders as the team scales, including educating cross-functional partners on how AI tools are changing billing and revenue operations.
Requirements
5+ years of experience in billing operations, revenue operations, or a related function within a SaaS or subscription-based company.
Extensive, hands-on experience with Zuora including subscription management, product catalog configuration, invoicing, amendments, and reporting.
Foundational knowledge of revenue recognition principles (ASC 606) and experience supporting or partnering with a revenue accounting function.
Proven experience handling complex, non-standard billing scenarios with sound judgment and strong attention to detail.
Comfortable being customer-facing and communicating billing matters with clarity and empathy.
Strong ability to interpret contract language and apply it accurately to billing setup and revenue implications.
Systems-savvy: able to work across multiple platforms, connect the dots between tools, and find creative, practical solutions to operational challenges.
Demonstrated ability to work with AI tools in a finance or operations context — including prompt-based workflows, AI-assisted drafting or analysis, and a clear understanding of when to validate or escalate AI outputs.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field preferred.
Benefits
Competitive compensation, benefits, and meaningful opportunities for professional growth.
Pay
The estimated base salary range for this role is: $96,000 USD - $106,000 USD
Schedule
This is a fully remote position open to candidates based in the United States.