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Company Description
When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For over 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 21,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Feedback Studio, Originality, Gradescope, ExamSoft, Similarity, and iThenticate.
Experience a remote-centric culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education.
Turnitin is a global organization with team members in over 35 countries including the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, India, and the Philippines.
Job Description
The Revenue Accounting team plays a critical role within the Finance department, ensuring accurate and compliant revenue recognition in accordance with ASC 606. Our focus is on delivering high-quality, audit-ready financial data that reflects the company’s performance and supports key strategic decisions.
This Revenue Accountant position is essential to managing the operational and technical aspects of revenue recognition. The role will be responsible for reviewing customer contracts, performing revenue allocations, maintaining revenue schedules, and supporting monthly and quarterly closes. The position will also help build scalable processes as the business continues to grow and expand globally.
Key customers of this role include the FP&A team, Commercial Finance, Sales Ops, Legal, AR, and External Auditors. Internally, the Senior Revenue Accountant will work cross-functionally with Deal Desk, Order Management, Sales, serving as a subject matter expert on revenue-related matters and guiding them on appropriate treatment for complex deals and contract terms.
This role directly contributes to team OKRs around:
Timely and accurate month-end close
Improved contract review turnaround times
ASC 606 compliance
Strengthening internal controls and audit readiness
Supporting system and process enhancements across the revenue cycle
The ideal candidate will bring solid accounting experience, keen attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively with both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Assist in monthly revenue accounting close activities by preparing journal entries and performing key account reconciliations, including those related to revenue, deferred revenue, unbilled receivables.
Assist with revenue reporting and analysis by monitoring customer usage.
Review standard and non-standard contracts to determine the appropriate revenue recognition under U.S. GAAP, ensuring the company is compliant with revenue recognition principles under ASC 606.
Assist in the order to cash process, reviewing submitted sales orders in our accounting system to ensure proper revenue recognition and compliance.
Manage and maintain Net Suite ARM to ensure accurate and compliant revenue recognition in accordance with ASC 606, data validation, reconciliation processes, data flows.
Work cross functionally within the organization to drive automation efforts to streamline accounting operations related to revenue accounting and improve the quality of monthly, quarterly, and annual closes.
Work directly with our sales, customer success, revenue operations, and FP&A teams to obtain needed data and reporting to support monthly revenue entries.
Develop, maintain, and continuously improve internal process documentation to ensure clarity, consistency, and operational efficiency across teams.
Perform special technical projects, analysis, and ad hoc reporting.
Play a key role throughout the company financial audit, preparing & reviewing revenue related schedules for external auditors.
Company Description
When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For over 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 21,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Feedback Studio, Originality, Gradescope, ExamSoft, Similarity, and iThenticate.
Experience a remote-centric culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education.
Turnitin is a global organization with team members in over 35 countries including the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, India, and the Philippines.
Job Description
The Revenue Accounting team plays a critical role within the Finance department, ensuring accurate and compliant revenue recognition in accordance with ASC 606. Our focus is on delivering high-quality, audit-ready financial data that reflects the company’s performance and supports key strategic decisions.
This Revenue Accountant position is essential to managing the operational and technical aspects of revenue recognition. The role will be responsible for reviewing customer contracts, performing revenue allocations, maintaining revenue schedules, and supporting monthly and quarterly closes. The position will also help build scalable processes as the business continues to grow and expand globally.
Key customers of this role include the FP&A team, Commercial Finance, Sales Ops, Legal, AR, and External Auditors. Internally, the Senior Revenue Accountant will work cross-functionally with Deal Desk, Order Management, Sales, serving as a subject matter expert on revenue-related matters and guiding them on appropriate treatment for complex deals and contract terms.
This role directly contributes to team OKRs around:
Timely and accurate month-end close
Improved contract review turnaround times
ASC 606 compliance
Strengthening internal controls and audit readiness
Supporting system and process enhancements across the revenue cycle
The ideal candidate will bring solid accounting experience, keen attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively with both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
Assist in monthly revenue accounting close activities by preparing journal entries and performing key account reconciliations, including those related to revenue, deferred revenue, unbilled receivables.
Assist with revenue reporting and analysis by monitoring customer usage.
Review standard and non-standard contracts to determine the appropriate revenue recognition under U.S. GAAP, ensuring the company is compliant with revenue recognition principles under ASC 606.
Assist in the order to cash process, reviewing submitted sales orders in our accounting system to ensure proper revenue recognition and compliance.
Manage and maintain Net Suite ARM to ensure accurate and compliant revenue recognition in accordance with ASC 606, data validation, reconciliation processes, data flows.
Work cross functionally within the organization to drive automation efforts to streamline accounting operations related to revenue accounting and improve the quality of monthly, quarterly, and annual closes.
Work directly with our sales, customer success, revenue operations, and FP&A teams to obtain needed data and reporting to support monthly revenue entries.
Develop, maintain, and continuously improve internal process documentation to ensure clarity, consistency, and operational efficiency across teams.
Perform special technical projects, analysis, and ad hoc reporting.
Play a key role throughout the company financial audit, preparing & reviewing revenue related schedules for external auditors.
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Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Revenue Accountant (UK Remote) position is now open for candidates interested in the Accountant Jobs sector. This role in Birmingham offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Accountant Jobs is a plus.