The Role
Reports revenue accurately under GAAP and ASC 606 across the order-to-cash process and month-end close. Responsibilities include revenue recognition, sales order creation, revenue waterfall schedules, NetSuite revenue plans, journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, invoicing support, forecast-versus-actual analysis, customer invoice resolution, external audit support, and process documentation improvements.
Summary Generated by Built In
Samba connects the advertising industry. Today, a trillion dollars of media flows through platforms that don’t talk to each other, and each one measures its own results. We built the independent alternative: consented first-party data and AI that give the world’s biggest advertisers, publishers, and platforms one clear view across all of it.
The next era of advertising will run on AI agents, and those agents will need data they can trust. We’re building that foundation, and the agents that act on it. Join us and help build what the industry runs on.
You help report revenue accurately and on time under GAAP and ASC 606, working across the order-to-cash process and month-end close. You collaborate with legal, business development, sales, and other functions to keep Samba compliant with revenue recognition policies, and you report to the Revenue Manager.
- Apply Revenue Recognition: Ensure the proper accounting treatment of revenue under GAAP (ASC 606), applying basic revenue recognition rules and creating sales orders from standard contract reviews.
- Schedule and Post Revenue: Prepare revenue waterfall schedules, ensure the revenue plan in NetSuite is accurate, and post monthly revenue journal entries.
- Support Month-End Close: Support the month-end close by preparing accrual calculations, journal entries, and reconciliations for related accounts.
- Support Invoicing: Facilitate the preparation of invoices, and communicate with customers to address and resolve invoice-related questions.
- Track Forecasts Versus Actuals: Collaborate internally and externally on revenue and margin forecasts versus actuals, and resolve discrepancies.
- Support External Audits: Participate in external audits by helping with auditor requests.
- Document and Improve: Maintain and improve related procedure documentation, and take on ad hoc projects as assigned.
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4+ years of work experience, including working experience with ASC 606.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets; familiarity with enterprise accounting systems such as NetSuite is a plus.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Detail-oriented, organized, task-based, and deadline-focused, able to multi-task and work as a team in a high-volume, high-accuracy environment.
- A plus: experience with digital advertising or adtech, and public company experience.
Compensation
$113,000 - $153,000 a year
Samba expects to offers On-Target Earnings (OTE) of $113,000 - $153,000 per year for roles to be performed in California; actual base salary offered will depend on various factors, including but not limited to, location, experience, and performance. Base salary is just one component of Samba's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include bonuses, short-term incentives, and long-term incentives. In addition, Samba provides health insurance, wellness offerings, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO), and other employee benefits.
Samba is an equal opportunity employer.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 4+ years of work experience, including experience with ASC 606
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Detail-oriented, organized, task-based, and deadline-focused work style
- Ability to multitask and work as part of a team in a high-volume, high-accuracy environment
- Experience with NetSuite or other enterprise accounting systems
- Experience with digital advertising or adtech
- Public company experience
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The Company
What We Do
Samba is a media-intelligence company that combines consented first-party viewership data from streaming, linear TV, the web, and video games with AI to map content, audiences, and outcomes. Its platform gives advertisers, publishers, and media platforms insight into audience behavior and supports campaign planning, targeting, measurement, and optimization across channels. Samba’s data and analytics help clients understand audiences and make marketing decisions.
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