What you'll do:
- Lead the end-to-end revenue accounting process, including customer contract review, revenue recognition conclusions, monthly revenue close activities, and operational execution in accordance with ASC 606.
- Lead the preparation and review of revenue-related journal entries, ensuring entries are accurate, complete, appropriately supported, and aligned with company accounting policies.
- Review revenue-related account reconciliations, including deferred revenue, unbilled receivables, contract assets, contract liabilities, accounts receivable, and other order-to-cash related balances.
- Manage and lead the preparation, review, and approval of customer contracts, ensuring appropriate revenue recognition while partnering with Sales, Legal, Business Development, Revenue Operations, and Program Finance on deal structure, contractual terms, and revenue guidance implementation.
- Serve as one of the company’s subject matter experts on ASC 606, providing technical accounting guidance on complex revenue arrangements, non-standard contract terms, variable consideration, contract modifications, performance obligations, and other revenue recognition matters.
- Own and evolve revenue accounting policies, including SSP analyses, allocation methodologies, and revenue recognition positions as new products, pricing models, geographies, and contract structures are introduced.
- Design, document, and improve order-to-cash processes to ensure accuracy, scalability, operational efficiency, and strong internal controls across contract review, billing, revenue recognition, collections handoffs, and reporting.
- Identify process gaps, control risks, and system limitations within the revenue accounting and order-to-cash lifecycle, and lead initiatives to improve process quality, automation, scalability, and audit readiness.
- Support internal and external audits by preparing and reviewing audit schedules, responding to technical accounting inquiries, and ensuring revenue accounting documentation is complete, accurate, and well-controlled.
- Mentor and develop revenue accounting team members, providing coaching, review, prioritization, and guidance to support team growth and operational excellence.
Required qualifications:
- 8+ years of relevant accounting experience, including significant experience in technical revenue accounting under ASC 606 and/or IFRS 15.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA preferred.
- Strong revenue recognition experience, including experience reviewing complex customer contracts and assessing accounting conclusions under ASC 606.
- Experience leading or managing revenue accounting close activities, including review of journal entries, account reconciliations, and revenue-related balance sheet accounts.
- Deep understanding of order-to-cash processes and how technical accounting decisions impact billing, collections, revenue recognition, reporting, and controls.
- Experience designing, improving, or scaling revenue accounting and order-to-cash processes in a high-growth or complex business environment.
- Experience with revenue recognition, ERP, CRM, and/or order-to-cash systems, such as Salesforce or equivalent tools.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex technical accounting issues into clear, actionable guidance for cross-functional stakeholders.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally with Legal, Sales, Business Development, Revenue Operations, Billing, Collections, Program Finance, FP&A, Systems, and external auditors.
- Strong understanding of internal controls, audit requirements, and SOX compliance protocols.
- Demonstrated ability to balance technical accounting rigor with operational practicality and business partnership.
- Data-driven mindset with a proactive approach to process improvement, automation, and scalable operations.
Preferred qualificatkions:
- Big 4 public accounting experience preferred.
- Public company experience preferred.
- Experience with international expansion, including EMEA revenue accounting considerations.
- Experience in high-growth technology, SaaS, PaaS, Defense, Aerospace, manufacturing, or complex contract environments.
- Experience with long-term contracts, milestone billing, project-based revenue recognition, government contracts, or complex commercial arrangements.
- Experience implementing or optimizing revenue recognition, billing, ERP, CRM, or order-to-cash systems.
Skills Required
- 8+ years relevant accounting experience including technical revenue accounting under ASC 606 and/or IFRS 15.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- CPA (preferred).
- Strong revenue recognition experience reviewing complex customer contracts and assessing ASC 606 conclusions.
- Experience leading or managing revenue accounting close activities, journal entries, and account reconciliations.
- Deep understanding of order-to-cash processes and impacts on billing, collections, revenue recognition, and controls.
- Experience designing, improving, or scaling revenue accounting and order-to-cash processes in high-growth or complex environments.
- Experience with ERP, CRM, and/or order-to-cash systems (e.g., Salesforce).
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills; ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to explain technical accounting to cross-functional stakeholders.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally with Legal, Sales, Revenue Operations, Billing, Collections, FP&A, and auditors.
- Strong understanding of internal controls, audit requirements, and SOX compliance protocols.
- Data-driven mindset with proactive approach to process improvement, automation, and scalable operations.
- Big 4 public accounting experience.
- Public company experience.
- Experience with international expansion and EMEA revenue accounting considerations.
- Experience with long-term contracts, milestone billing, project-based recognition, or government/complex commercial contracts.
- Experience implementing or optimizing revenue recognition, billing, ERP, CRM, or order-to-cash systems.
Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes medical, dental, vision, and mental-health support, with company materials describing excellent coverage. Feedback suggests these offerings are comprehensive and consistently highlighted across official and third-party benefit lists.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is granted to all full-time hires, with RSU structures and tools like Carta Tax intended to improve understanding and tax timing. Feedback suggests this broad-based ownership approach is a notable component of total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Benefits include paid parental leave, fertility support, childcare benefits, family medical leave, and onsite resources such as a Mother's Room. Feedback suggests the family-oriented offerings are more expansive than basic coverage.
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What We Do
At Shield AI, you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.
Why Work With Us
Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield AI builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.
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