Revenue Accountant

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.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field or ACCA/CIMA qualified or progress toward certification strongly preferred.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant accounting experience, ideally in SaaS revenue accounting with a focus on ASC 606 (desirable not but not essential).
• Proficiency with ERP and revenue tools (e.g., NetSuite, Salesforce, CPQ).
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A collaborative mindset and willingness to support both strategic and hands-on work.

Additional Information

Total Rewards @ Turnitin

Turnitin maintains a Total Rewards package that is competitive within the local job market. People tend to think about their Total Rewards monetarily — solely as regular pay plus bonus or commission. This is what they earn in exchange for what they do. However, Turnitin delivers more than just these components. Beyond the intrinsic rewards of unleashing your potential to positively impact global education, and thriving in an organization that is free of politics and full of humble, inclusive and collaborative teammates, the extrinsic rewards at Turnitin include generous time off and health and wellness programs that offer choice and flexibility and provide a safety net for the challenges that life presents from time to time. 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 Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.

Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
• Passion for Learning - We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.
• Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
• Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
• One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other's successes.
• Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.

Global Benefits

• Remote First Culture
• Health Care Coverage*
• Education Reimbursement*
• Competitive Paid Time Off
• 4 Self-Care Days per year
• National Holidays*
• 2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed
• Paid Volunteer Time*
• Charitable contribution match*
• Monthly Wellness or Home Office Reimbursement/*
• Access to Modern Health (mental health platform)
• Parental Leave*
• Retirement Plan with match/contribution*
• varies by country

Seeing Beyond the Job Ad

At Turnitin, we recognize it's unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you're willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team

Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.