Senior Accounting Manager - Subscription Revenue

SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40+ million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.

Join our Finance team as a New York-based Senior Accounting Revenue Manager and take ownership of SoundCloud’s subscription revenue processes! Reporting to the Assistant Controller, this role is central to managing our Creator & Fan business revenue, ensuring accurate recognition, strong controls, and process improvements to support SoundCloud’s growth. Collaboration and clear communication are essential, as you will partner with multiple teams across the organization to drive financial accuracy and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Lead monthly close processes for subscription revenue, including variance analysis and reporting
• Ensure accurate revenue recognition in compliance with IFRS 15
• Establish and maintain robust financial controls, and accounting policies
• Monitor transactional data and cash flows to ensure revenue completeness and accuracy
• Act as a key partner with Payments, FP&A, Tax and Royalties teams to support revenue-related initiatives, compliance in new territories and royalty calculations.
• Collaborate effectively across teams and time-zones, documenting and communicating approaches to align stakeholders
• Identify and implement scalable solutions to improve revenue processes and controls

Experience & Background: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA preferred
• 5+ years in accounting or revenue management, ideally in a subscription-based or SaaS business
• Thrives in fast-paced, evolving environment
• Strong knowledge of IFRS 15 and/ or ASC 606 and experience in strong financial control environments
• Familiarity with subscription billing software (Recurly preferred) and payment providers (e.g., Adyen, PayPal, Apple, Google)
• Proficiency with ERP systems (Oracle Fusion preferred) and advanced Excel skills
• Experience working across time zones and with distributed teams
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to work independently and meet deadlines

The salary range for this role is $100,000-120,000 annually. The final salary offered will be determined based on relative experience, skills, internal equity, and location. We also offer a generous total rewards program - read more about additional benefits and perks below!

About us:

• We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)
• We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home
• We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard
• We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities

Benefits:

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources
• Robust 401k program
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• Generous professional development allowance
• Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
• Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
• 16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children
• Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at SoundCloud

SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us lead what’s next in music by understanding and empowering our creators and fans, no matter their identity. We acknowledge the challenges in the music industry, and strive to influence an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute respectfully and thrive, especially the historically marginalized communities that many of our creators, fans and SoundClouders identify with. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment at SoundCloud for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status.At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group. Diversity Resource Groups are employee-organized groups focused on supporting and promoting the interests of a particular underrepresented community in order to build a more inclusive culture at SoundCloud. Anyone can join, whether you share the identity or strive to be an ally.