Description
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented
Senior Revenue Accountant
to join our growing finance team. This role is critical in ensuring accurate revenue recognition across multiple business units, with a strong focus on subscription-based revenue streams. The ideal candidate will bring public accounting experience, a deep understanding of software revenue models, and a global perspective to support our international operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and manage the monthly revenue close process, ensuring timely and accurate reporting.
- Analyze and reconcile revenue accounts across multiple business units.
- Ensure compliance with ASC 606 and other relevant revenue recognition standards.
- Partner with cross-functional teams (Sales, Sales Operations, Legal, FP&A) to review contracts and assess revenue implications.
- Support audits and provide documentation for revenue-related inquiries, including international statutory audits.
- Assist in the implementation and optimization of revenue systems and processes.
- Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, budget to actual and flux analyses.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of internal controls over revenue accounting.
- Collaborate with international teams to ensure consistency in global revenue recognition practices.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; Chartered Accountant (CA) qualification preferred.
- CA qualified or equivalent professional certification (e.g., ACCA).
- 35+ years of experience in public accounting or corporate finance, ideally with a focus on revenue recognition.
- Experience working in a multi-entity or multi-business unit environment.
- Strong understanding of subscription-based revenue models, preferably within the software or SaaS industry.
- Proficiency with ERP systems such as NetSuite or similar; experience with revenue automation tools is an advantage.
- Exposure to international accounting standards (e.g., IFRS) and global revenue recognition practices is highly desirable.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.
Why Join Us
- Opportunity to work with a collaborative and high-performing Finance team.
- Exposure to complex and evolving revenue models in a global business.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
- Career growth and development opportunities.
About Norstella
At Norstella, our mission is simple: to help our clients bring life-saving therapies to market quickerand help patients in need. Founded in 2022, but with history going back to 1939, Norstella unites best-in-class brands to help clients navigate the complexities at each step of the drug development life cycle and get the right treatments to the right patients at the right time. Each organization (Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, The Dedham Group) delivers must-have answers for critical strategic and commercial decision-making. Together, via our market-leading brands, we help our clients:
- Citeline accelerate the drug development cycle
- Evaluate bring the right drugs to market
- MMIT identify barrier to patient access
- Panalgo turn data into insight faster
- The Dedham Group think strategically for specialty therapeutics
By combining the efforts of each organization under Norstella, we can offer an even wider breadth of expertise, cutting-edge data solutions and expert advisory services alongside advanced technologies such as real-world data, machine learning and predictive analytics. As one of the largest global pharma intelligence solution providers, Norstella has a footprint across the globe with teams of experts delivering world class solutions in the USA, UK, The Netherlands, Japan, China and India.
Norstella is an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability or handicap, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), marital or domestic partner status, military or veteran status, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, reproductive health decision making, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal, state, or local law.
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