The Role: 

The Senior Revenue Accountant will be responsible for delivering accurate, reliable, and timely opportunity to cash (OTC) reporting each month in accordance with policies and will play an instrumental role in evaluating, improving, and executing all matters related to revenue, accounts receivable, and commissions accounting in compliance with ASC 606. Reporting to the Revenue Manager, you'll work closely with the Billing Specialists, Deal Desk, Sales, FP&A, and Engineering teams to set operational excellence standards, with a focus on improving our day-to-day OTC processes and related documentation. As a key member of the Accounting team, you will help us reach our goal of reducing our OTC close timeline as Newsela scales our business.

Why You’ll Love This Role:

As a member of our growing finance team, you will have the opportunity to make a real and immediate impact by driving process improvements, communicating OTC requirements cross functionally, implementing internal control procedures and streamlining the revenue accounting activities to improve the close process as well as actively monitoring customer collections progress. You will also help with commissions and other accounting areas as needed. Your work will enable quality reporting and accounting operations that support the growth of our business, which will ultimately scale Newsela’s ability to bring engaging, culturally responsive learning content to K-12 classrooms nationwide.

Why We’ll Love You: 

You have 2+ years of experience in accounting, with exposure to ASC 606 and a solid basis of the general accounting requirements around revenue recognition, accounts receivable, and commissions. You also have had exposure to financial statement audits including walkthroughs, documentation, and testing of design and operating effectiveness of internal controls (SOX). You have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, are very organized and detail-oriented, thrive on process improvement and value clean documentation. A self-starter, you’re excited to apply what you know to strengthen the financial reporting and controls of our fast-growing company with a mission to transform the K-12 education industry. While not required, experience in industry accounting for a public or pre-IPO company is preferred. Similarly, experience with NetSuite and especially Netsuite ARM and NetSuite Billing is a plus. 

About Newsela:

One of the fastest growing tech companies in K-12 education, Newsela was founded on the principle that while every child may have unique learning preferences, they all deserve a rich learning experience that ignites a love of learning. We built our platform based on learning science research to deliver the most engaging, authentic content to modernize how teaching happens in the classroom. Along with interactive assessments and tools, we provide teachers with digital content at five reading levels -- from +100 of the best sources -- that is relevant to the diverse backgrounds and interests of their students. Since we started in 2013, we’ve established a presence in 90% of U.S. K-12 schools and over 2.5M teachers and 37M students have registered with Newsela.