3P Revenue Accounting & Reporting

We are looking for a Senior Manager, 3P Revenue Accounting & Reporting to join our Accounting team. You will own revenue recognition, month-end close and reporting for Claude sold through our cloud service provider (CSP) channels: AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI and Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the revenue close for cloud service provider Marketplace within a listed company timeline.
• Prepare and review revenue, revenue-share, reserve journal entries, accruals and true-ups including memos for accounting assessments and judgments.
• Own balance sheet reconciliations, reserves, and the usage-to-invoice-to-cash bridge.
• Perform monthly and quarterly flux analysis and prepare flux decks for leadership.
• Own quarter-end deliverables, including footnote disclosures, flux commentary and presentations to leadership and Corporate Accounting.
• Serve as the primary contact for external auditors.
• Review the work of accountants and contractors, set the close calendar, and keep close packages complete and audit-ready.
• Own monthly and quarterly 3P revenue reporting for leadership and FP&A, by partner, model, product, region and customer.
• Review partner usage, invoice, disbursement and fraud reports each month, and resolve data issues before close.
• Serve as the accounting point of contact for the finance, engineering and product teams and drive reporting improvements that support an on-time close.
• Apply ASC 606 to 3P arrangements, including principal-vs-agent, variable consideration and reseller arrangements.
• Estimate and document reserves, including credit loss (ASC 326).
• Assess the accounting for new 3P products, programs and billing changes, partnering with Technical Accounting on complex judgments.
• Partner with the Engineering teams to automate manual close processes, including SQL-driven workbooks, automated reconciliations and system-generated journal entries.
• Own 3P SOX controls, including design, documentation, gap remediation and audit evidence.
• Partner with FP&A, Treasury, AR and business teams on forecasts, cash and partner disputes.

Minimum qualifications:

• Have strong ASC 606 knowledge, especially principal-vs-agent, variable consideration, consideration payable to a customer, and consumption-based revenue.
• Have owned a month-end close with tight deadlines and reviewed journal entries, reconciliations and flux analysis.
• Have built revenue reporting from large, imperfect third-party data sets and reconciled it to the general ledger.
• Have managed external partner relationships where you depended on their data, and pushed for fixes.
• Have strong SQL skills (BigQuery or similar) and experience automating close workbooks or reconciliations.
• Have designed or operated SOX controls and supported external audits.
• Communicate clearly with accounting, finance, business and engineering teams.
• Thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where processes are still being built.

Preferred qualifications:

• Have 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 3+ years managing revenue accounting or close teams.
• A Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA or equivalent (ACA, ACCA).
• Big 4 audit experience combined with industry experience at a high-growth tech or SaaS company.
• Experience with cloud marketplace, reseller or channel revenue (AWS Marketplace, Google Cloud Marketplace, Azure Marketplace).
• Experience with usage-based and subscription revenue models.
• Hands-on experience with Workday Financials, NetSuite, Numeric, Hex or similar close and reporting tools.
• Experience with IPO readiness.
• Experience using AI tools to automate accounting and reporting work.

The annual compensation range for this role is $190,000-$230,000 USD.