# Head of Revenue Accounting

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Revenue Operations
**Salary:** $300k – $385k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** ASC 606, Revenue Recognition, technical accounting, US GAAP, Internal Controls, sox 404, zuora, deal desk, Financial Reporting, CPA
**Posted:** 2026-07-21

> Lead technical revenue accounting, deal desk oversight, and revenue systems for a high-growth AI company. Requires deep ASC 606 expertise, CPA, team leadership, and ability to influence Sales, Legal, and Engineering on complex deals and automation while maintaining controllership.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Own technical accounting for complex revenue recognition matters, including researching, concluding, documenting positions in memos, and explaining to stakeholders and auditors.
- Own the deal desk from an accounting perspective: define contract approval policies, serve as accounting approver, and partner with Sales and Legal on deal structures.
- Influence deal structures pre-signature by building relationships with Sales, Legal, and Finance to shape agreements commercially while maintaining controllership.
- Lead preparation of revenue-related financial reporting, footnotes, technical disclosures, and public-company reporting readiness.
- Own the revenue system roadmap (requirements, design, testing, optimization) in partnership with Finance Systems.
- Advocate for automation with engineering and systems teams by translating accounting needs into priorities.
- Design, implement, and operate internal controls over financial reporting for revenue and technical accounting, including documentation, testing, remediation, and audit support.
- Build scalable, documented processes to handle growing transaction volume and deal complexity, replacing manual work with automation.
- Apply Claude (LLM) to streamline team work such as research, memo drafting, contract review, reconciliations, and disclosures.
- Partner across Sales, Finance, Legal, and systems teams to enable new products, pricing models, and GTM motions while advising on accounting implications.
- Lead and grow the accounting team, setting priorities, mentoring, and raising the technical bar.

## Minimum Qualifications
- Track record of leading and developing a high-performing accounting team.
- Deep expertise in revenue recognition under ASC 606 for software, subscription, or consumption-based models.
- Personal ownership of complex technical accounting research, position memos, auditor defense, and US GAAP disclosures.
- Experience designing, implementing, and operating internal controls over financial reporting (documentation and testing).
- Ability to influence non-accounting stakeholders, including shaping deals with Sales/Legal and automation with systems teams.
- Experience owning a revenue or billing platform (Zuora or similar) as implementation lead or accounting roadmap owner.
- CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Public company experience or preparing a high-growth company for public reporting and SOX 404 compliance.
- Background at a national or Big Four firm.
- Experience with consumption-based, usage-based, or hybrid revenue models, especially in AI, cloud, or infrastructure.
- Experience using LLMs or AI tooling to automate accounting, contract review, or controls.
- Experience standing up or overhauling a deal desk approval process.
- Hands-on Zuora implementation or operation experience.

## Compensation
Annual Salary: $300,000–$385,000 USD (total compensation range).

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