Senior Manager, Revenue Accounting

The role, in a nutshell:

We’re hiring a Senior Manager to lead revenue accounting, billing, and collections during a critical phase of systems transformation and scale. This role owns ASC 606 compliance, manages the full quote-to-cash accounting lifecycle, and will lead a team of two. You’ll report to the Controller and serve as the technical and operational leader for all revenue-related matters. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on ensuring accurate revenue recognition, efficient billing practices, and strong controls around the quote-to-cash cycle.

If you’ve scaled revenue accounting operations in a SaaS environment and enjoy building rigor where processes are evolving, this is a high-impact opportunity.

What you’ll do:

Own revenue recognition and technical accounting

• Lead all aspects of ASC 606 compliance, including contract review, multi-element arrangements, and variable consideration

• Partner with Sales Ops, Deal Desk, Legal, and FP&A to ensure alignment across the full quote to cash cycle

• Oversee accounting for AR, deferred revenue, revenue, and contract assets

• Ensure audit readiness through strong documentation, reconciliations, and internal controls

Lead billing and collections operations

• Oversee invoicing, collections, and cash application processes

• Serve as the escalation point for complex billing and revenue matters

• Improve accuracy, timeliness, and automationacross the order-to-cash cycle

Manage and develop the revenue team

• Lead and mentor a team of two (Senior Revenue Accountant and Billing and Collections Specialist)

• Provide stable, consistent leadership and clear process ownership

• Establish accountability, documentation standards, and operational discipline

Scale systems and processes

• Own system design and automation for billing and collections, including evaluating, implementing, and optimizing ERP/CRM integrations (e.g., NetSuite, Salesforce, etc.)

• Transition manual workflows into automated, scalable processes

• Design and formalize revenue policies and controls

• Build infrastructure to support increasing deal complexity and international expansion

Support monthly close and reporting

• Own revenue-related close activities

• Deliver timely, accurate reporting on revenue, deferred revenue, and related metrics

• Partner closely with FP&A on forecasting and recognition alignment

What we’re looking for:

• Active CPA license (required)

• 7+ years of progressive revenue accounting experience with deep ASC 606 expertise

• Proven leadership experience managing revenue or billing teams

• Strong NetSuite experience, including Advanced Revenue Management

• Hands-on ERP/CRM experience (e.g., Salesforce)

• Experience supporting audits and building revenue documentation

• Demonstrated ability to scale processes in a high-growth SaaS or subscription environment

• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex revenue concepts

Preferred:

• Public accounting background (Big 4 or similar)

• Experience with subscription or usage-based billing models

• Exposure to international revenue considerations

Who we need:

We need a builder and operator.

Someone who can step into an evolving environment, bring structure and technical depth, and lead revenue through its next phase of maturity. You should be equally comfortable reviewing complex contracts, coaching your Senior Revenue Accountant, partnering with Sales on deal structure, and rolling up your sleeves in NetSuite.

This is a role for someone who enjoys turning manual processes into scalable systems, strengthening controls without slowing the business down, and creating long-term operational rigor.

If you’re looking for a high-visibility revenue leadership role where you can shape systems, mentor a team, and build durable infrastructure — we’d love to talk.

Base Salary Range
$166,000—$200,000 USD

About Us

Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.

Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default.

Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.

We live and breathe our company values:

We are customer obsessed - We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.

We have a bias for intentional action - We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.

We don’t take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) - We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.

We trust each other and assume good intentions - We’re transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.

A few of the benefits we offer:

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.

• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).

• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.

• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.

• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.

If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. We’re building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring “Chainguardians'' with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

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