Revenue Accountant, Turnitin
Plus bonus or commission
Plagiarism detection software
Open for applications
Plagiarism detection software
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
Plus bonus or commission
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Turnitin's mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will bring solid accounting experience, keen attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively with both finance and non-finance stakeholders
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field or ACCA/CIMA qualified or progress toward certification strongly preferred
- Minimum 3 years of relevant accounting experience, ideally in SaaS revenue accounting with a focus on ASC 606 (desirable not but not essential)
- Proficiency with ERP and revenue tools (e.g., NetSuite, Salesforce, CPQ)
- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A collaborative mindset and willingness to support both strategic and hands-on work
What the job involves
- The Revenue Accounting team plays a critical role within the Finance department, ensuring accurate and compliant revenue recognition in accordance with ASC 606. Our focus is on delivering high-quality, audit-ready financial data that reflects the company’s performance and supports key strategic decisions
- This Revenue Accountant position is essential to managing the operational and technical aspects of revenue recognition
- The role will be responsible for reviewing customer contracts, performing revenue allocations, maintaining revenue schedules, and supporting monthly and quarterly closes. The position will also help build scalable processes as the business continues to grow and expand globally
- Key customers of this role include the FP&A team, Commercial Finance, Sales Ops, Legal, AR, and External Auditors
- Internally, the Senior Revenue Accountant will work cross-functionally with Deal Desk, Order Management, Sales, serving as a subject matter expert on revenue-related matters and guiding them on appropriate treatment for complex deals and contract terms
- Assist in monthly revenue accounting close activities by preparing journal entries and performing key account reconciliations, including those related to revenue, deferred revenue, unbilled receivables
- Assist with revenue reporting and analysis by monitoring customer usage
- Review standard and non-standard contracts to determine the appropriate revenue recognition under U.S. GAAP, ensuring the company is compliant with revenue recognition principles under ASC 606
- Assist in the order to cash process, reviewing submitted sales orders in our accounting system to ensure proper revenue recognition and compliance
- Manage and maintain Net Suite ARM to ensure accurate and compliant revenue recognition in accordance with ASC 606, data validation, reconciliation processes, data flows
- Work cross functionally within the organization to drive automation efforts to streamline accounting operations related to revenue accounting and improve the quality of monthly, quarterly, and annual closes
- Work directly with our sales, customer success, revenue operations, and FP&A teams to obtain needed data and reporting to support monthly revenue entries
- Develop, maintain, and continuously improve internal process documentation to ensure clarity, consistency, and operational efficiency across teams
- Perform special technical projects, analysis, and ad hoc reporting
- Play a key role throughout the company financial audit, preparing & reviewing revenue related schedules for external auditors
- This role directly contributes to team OKRs around:
- Timely and accurate month-end close
- Improved contract review turnaround times
- ASC 606 compliance
- Strengthening internal controls and audit readiness
- Supporting system and process enhancements across the revenue cycle
Our take
Turnitin has a global reputation for being one of the best plagiarism detection softwares on the market. It’s well-earned, too. Besides simple paraphrasing plagiarism, its software also employs sophisticated techniques like identifying macro replacement and analysing metadata to weed out essay mill papers.
Academic plagiarism has become increasingly complex over the years, exacerbated in part by the COVID period of online schooling, and in part by a skyrocketing rise in computer literacy and plagiarism tricks. Software like Turnitin is therefore playing an increasingly crucial role in maintaining academic integrity. Additionally, it helps understaffed institutions ease the burden placed on a teaching workforce which are, in some regions, perilously close to collapse.
Turnitin is not without its issues, however. Some institutions lean too heavily on the software, and essay mills have begun using Turnitin software to prove product authenticity. Historically, Turnitin has neatly addressed these problems by releasing new or improved capabilities including Chat GPT screening updates in 2023. If it can continue to demonstrate remarkable competence and proactive development in this regard, Turnitin’s glowing reputation seems assured.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Supplemental Life Insurance
Company HQ
Downtown, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Chris Caren
(CEO)Held a number of senior positions at major corporations, including serving as a GM at Microsoft, and a board member at Avetta, Liaison International, Illuminate Education, and The IRONMAN Group. They are additionally a member of YPO and chairman of Procare Solutions.
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