Financial Contracting Analyst

Job Description Summary

The Financial Contracting Analyst is responsible for driving technical accounting compliance, financial and operational internal controls, process simplification, and operational excellence to deliver accurate financial reporting and analysis. Specifically, responsible for ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant conversion of customer billing activity into revenue recorded in the general ledger. This role serves as a key link between Contracts, Billing, Sales, Services, and other Finance functions, applying ASC 606 revenue recognition principles to translate invoices, usage, performance milestones, and contractual terms into proper revenue accounting.

The role combines hands‑on revenue accounting execution, billing‑to‑revenue reconciliation, and close ownership, while partnering cross‑functionally to resolve issues, improve processes, and support audit readiness in a software/SaaS environment.

• Apply ASC 606 and company accounting policies to ensure accurate revenue recognition across SaaS subscriptions, licenses, professional services, and usage‑based arrangements.
• Convert billed invoices, usage data, and contractual milestones into appropriate revenue, deferred revenue, unbilled AR, and contract liability entries.
• Prepare and post manual and system‑generated journal entries related to revenue accounting.
• Maintain and review revenue schedules to ensure correct timing, classification, and attribution across products, regions, and legal entities.

• Perform monthly reconciliations between billing and revenue subledgers and the general ledger, identifying and resolving variances.
• Validate alignment between contract terms, pricing, quantities, service periods, invoices and revenue schedules.
• Investigate discrepancies between billing, deferred revenue and recognized revenue in partnership with Order Management, Sales, and Commercial teams.
• Support accurate setup and maintenance of Controllership revenue recognition models and contract data within the financial systems (e.g., Net Suite ARM, Oracle, or similar).

• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities related to revenue accounting.
• Prepare revenue roll‑forward schedules, deferred revenue movement analyses, and unbilled receivable reconciliations.
• Ensure timely completion of revenue recognition, deferred revenue and Unbilled AR deliverables in accordance with close calendars.
• Maintain clear, well‑organized supporting documentation for journal entries, account reconciliations, and General Ledger balance explanations.

• Review customer commercial arrangements, amendments, and pricing structures to assess appropriate revenue accounting treatment.
• Assist in identifying performance obligations, revenue allocation methodologies, and recognition requirements under ASC 606.
• Partner with Legal, Sales, and the Deal Desk teams to clarify contract terms and any revenue recognition implications or order value adjustments.

• Execute revenue accounting activities in compliance with SOX controls and internal Controllership policies.
• Support internal and external audits by providing reconciliations, documentation, and explanations related to revenue balances and activity.
• Identify issues, risks, or control gaps and elevate them appropriately with proposed mitigation actions.

• Identify opportunities to improve billing‑to‑revenue workflows, reduce manual effort, accelerate close activities and improve data quality.
• Partner with Financial Systems IT teams on system requirements, enhancements, testing, reporting needs and process changes.
• Develop and maintain standard work, reconciliation templates, and process documentation.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 4 years of experience in revenue accounting, order‑to‑cash, commercial operations management, or related accounting roles, preferably in a software/SaaS environment.
• Strong working knowledge of ASC 606 revenue recognition principles,…