Position Summary:
The Sr. Accountant, AR & Revenue Lead serves as the primary finance owner for accounts receivable and revenue accounting review activities, ensuring the completeness, accuracy, and integrity of AR balances, deferred revenue accounts, customer deposits, revenue-related reconciliations, and associated financial reporting for North Americas region. This role supports month-end close activities, reviews complex accounting transactions and reconciliations, analyzes revenue trends and variances, and helps maintain consistent accounting processes and controls for the NA region.
Job Responsibilities:
- Own Accounts Receivable, revenue accounting, and deferred revenue processes to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with company policies.
- Review AR aging, collections activity, customer deposits, reconciliations, and account balances to identify and resolve discrepancies, collection risks, and account exceptions.
- Lead month-end and year-end close activities related to revenue recognition, customer deposits, deferred revenue, journal entries, and balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring complete supporting documentation and compliance with accounting policies.
- Maintain and enhance accounting processes, internal controls, and standard operating procedures, while developing scalable AR processes that support business growth and operational efficiency.
- Partner with cross-functional teams and auditors to resolve accounting issues, support audits, improve data quality, and implement process and system enhancements.
- Establish scalable processes and workflows that support future team growth and demonstrate readiness for potential people leadership responsibilities as organizational needs evolve.
- AI fluency, including the ability to evaluate and use AI-enabled tools to improve efficiency, analysis, documentation, and process quality while applying sound business judgment and data confidentiality standards.
- Performadditionalduties as neededto support the organization's mission, vision, and core values.
Success Metrics
- Achieve 100% on-time completion of assigned close activities, reconciliations, and reporting deliverables.
- Maintain accurate and fully supported AR, revenue, and deferred revenue balances with no material audit deficiencies or control issues.
- Improve working capital performance through effective management of aged receivables, unapplied cash, and account discrepancies.
- Deliver high-qualityrevenuereporting and revenue accounting results in compliance with company policies and accounting standards.
- Drive measurable process improvements that increase efficiency, strengthen controls, and reduce operational risk.
- Successfully develop team capability and stakeholder relationships, resulting intimelyissue resolution and effective cross-functional collaboration.
Competencies:
- Accountability & Integrity
- Adaptability
- Business Acumen
- Confidentiality
- Decision Making
- Financial Acumen
- Process Management
- Problem Solving
Qualifications:
Required:
- Business-level Englishproficiency
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, ora relatedfield.
- Experience supporting and reviewing accounting activities for U.S. and Canadian entities, including balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, and month-end close processes.
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including accounts receivable, revenue accounting, ormonth-end close responsibilities.
- Experience preparing and reviewing balance sheet reconciliations and journal entries.
- Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting.
- Advancedproficiencyin Microsoft Excel.
- Experience working within ERP or accounting systems.
Preferred:
- Professional accounting certification (CA, CPA, CMA, ACCA, or equivalent).
- Experience with deferred revenue accounting and revenue recognition processes.
- Experience supporting audits and financial compliance activities.
- Experience working in a global or multi-entity organization.
Physical Demands and Working Conditions: (Working Conditions apply globally. The Physical Demands section is included to meet U.S. regulatory expectations and may not apply to individuals located outside the United States.)
Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers. The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
This is a full-time position. This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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An equal opportunity employer.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience.
- Strong knowledge of GAAP, month-end close, and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Experience with Accounts Payable, banking, accruals, prepaids, and general ledger accounting.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Experience with ERP systems such as NetSuite or similar accounting platforms.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
What We Do
Established by Dr. Ivan Misner in 1985, BNI is the world’s largest business referral network. BNI has over 291,000 small to large business members, in over 10,800 chapters across 77 countries. We are a global company with local footprints. Our proven approach provides members a structured, positive and professional referral program that enables them to sharpen their business skills, develop meaningful, long-term relationships, and experience business growth. Visit BNI.com to learn how BNI has impacted the lives of our members and how it can help you achieve your business goals.
