The Role:

The Senior Revenue Accounting Manager will take our revenue recognition processes to the next level (post ASC 606 adoption) and will develop scalable accounting operations for month end close activities. You will be responsible for owning end-to-end revenue close processes (including AR, deferred revenue, reserves and adjustments), collaborating with internal and external business partners, performing periodic and ad-hoc revenue reporting and analysis, and ensuring operation of key internal controls. In this role, you will also participate in special projects when revenue recognition expertise is needed, providing both technical and/or operational knowledge. 

Why You’ll Love This Role: 

Reporting directly to our Controller, you will have the opportunity to own critical and highly visible revenue processes, building the foundation to scale and improve the quality of the close process and internal controls. You’ll also have the opportunity to work closely with our growing Finance team, as well as cross-functionally with leadership on our Sales, Marketing, Product, and People teams. Your work will help enable quality reporting and accounting operations that support the super-charged growth of our business. Ultimately, this growth will broaden our product’s reach and bring engaging, culturally responsive learning content to K-12 teachers and students nationwide.

Why We’ll Love You: 

You have 5+ years of revenue accounting experience, with 1-2 years of hands-on experience with ASC 606, revenue reviews, Netsuite billing and ARM, and managing others to ensure transactional processing is accurate and complete. You are well-versed in revenue contracts review, documentation of revenue checklists, and providing support for financial statement audits. While not required, experience using Salesforce is a plus. You’re excited to leverage your ability to identify and prioritize issues that impact revenue reporting, investigate, evaluate and come up with alternate solutions, present pros/cons to management for decision and help to execute through to the resolution. A self-starter, you’re passionate about applying your expertise to a start-up where you can help to build and develop processes from scratch, and ultimately strengthen the financial reporting and controls of our fast-growing company with a mission to transform the K-12 education industry.

About Newsela:

One of the fastest growing tech companies in K-12 education, Newsela was founded on the principle that while every child learns differently, 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.