Senior Revenue Accountant
ActiveCampaign
Accounting & Finance, Sales & Business Development
Chicago, IL, USA
Posted on Nov 15, 2025
Are you a detail-oriented and strategic Revenue Accountant ready to make a significant impact on financial reporting and process efficiency?As our next Senior Revenue Accountant, you won't just be performing routine close tasks – you'll be a key driver of the month-end close process, acting as a financial subject matter expert across the organization to ensure accurate and compliant revenue recognition. You will be at the forefront of optimizing our quote-to-cash process, leveraging technology, including AI tools, to streamline internal processes and provide new business insights. This role is about protecting the integrity of our financials while proactively partnering with sales, legal, and product teams to support business growth and process improvements.
On a typical day, you might:
- Understand company's business and assist in all revenue accounting functions to support accurate and timely financial reporting, optimize revenue recognition processes and communicate policies across the organization.
- Drive and support the month end close process, including preparing relevant journal entries, balance sheet account reconciliations, and account analysis on period over period account fluctuations.
- Support revenue internal reporting needs to key stakeholders throughout the organization, for example deferred revenue and receivable flux reporting.
- Perform review and analysis of complex revenue contracts under ASC 606 and apply revenue recognition policies.
- Work collaboratively with FP&A and financial reporting and others within the organization to assist in understanding our revenue recognition as well as help provide guidance on revenue trends, variances, and forecast methodology.
- Participate in various accounting and billing system projects to promote more timely and accurate financial reporting.
- Support business process improvements and projects for quote to cash process.
- Collaborate with other departments including sales, legal, billing engineering, and product to support projects and business process improvements as noted above.
- Leverage AI to streamline internal processes and develop new insights for the business.
- Assist team with international audits, accounting research, and special projects as needed.
The ideal candidate will bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required, CPA or progress towards CPA a plus.
- 3+ years of relevant accounting experience including recognizing revenue in line with ASC 606 and accounts receivable reconciliations.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables, SUMIFs) and google sheets. Ability to analyze and adapt to new sources of data.
- Experience with Netsuite, Floqast, or Zuora a plus.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with employees at all levels of the organization and manage relationships with external parties.
- Ability to identify opportunities for process improvements in reporting and to manage multiple projects that promote system improvements and efficiencies.
- Possesses determination and perseverance; ability to find more efficient ways to complete responsibilities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Prior experience with Netsuite or other comparable ERP systems preferred.
- SaaS or technology industry experience preferred.
- Public accounting experience a plus.
About ActiveCampaign:
ActiveCampaign is an AI-first, end-to-end marketing platform for people at the heart of the action. It empowers teams to automate their campaigns with AI agents that imagine, activate, and validate–freeing them from step-by-step workflows and unlocking limitless ways to orchestrate their marketing.
With AI, goal-based automation, and 1,000+ app integrations, agencies, marketers, and owners can build cross-channel campaigns in minutes–fine-tuned with billions of data points to drive real results for their unique business.
ActiveCampaign is the trusted choice to help businesses unlock a new world of boundless opportunities–where ideas become impact and potential turns into real results.
As a global multicultural company, we are proud of our inclusive culture which embraces diverse voices, backgrounds, and perspectives. We don’t just celebrate our differences, we believe our diversity is what empowers our innovation and success. You can find out more about our DEI initiatives here.
Perks and benefits:
At ActiveCampaign, we prioritize employees’ well-being and professional growth by cultivating a culture centered on collaboration and innovation. When you join our team, you’ll not only have the opportunity to make a significant impact, but also enjoy a range of benefits tailored to support your personal and career development.
Here are some of the benefits we offer:
-Comprehensive Health & Wellness: Top-tier benefits package that includes a fully-covered High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP), complimentary access to telehealth services, and a free subscription to Calm.
-Growth & Development: Access to LinkedIn Learning, professional development programs, and career growth opportunities in a fast-growing organization.
-Generous Paid Time Off: Recharge and take the time you need to maintain work-life balance with open PTO.
-Total Rewards: Generous 401(k) matching with immediate vesting, quarterly perks with commuter and lunch benefits for hub based employees or a stipend for remote workers, and a four-week paid sabbatical with bonus after five years.
-Collaborative Culture: Work alongside brilliant, passionate colleagues in an environment that values innovation, teamwork, and mutual support.
ActiveCampaign is an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, hire, pay, grow and promote no matter of gender, race, color, sexual orientation, religion, age, protected veteran status, physical and mental abilities, or any other identities protected by law.
Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) strive to foster a diverse inclusive environment by supporting each other, building a strong sense of belonging, and creating opportunities for mentorship and professional growth for their members.
Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base rate only and do not include bonus, equity, sales incentives or other role specific compensation that the role may be eligible for. ActiveCampaign believes in and is committed to equitable compensation practices. The salary range provided above is a good faith estimate of the pay range determined by the location associated with the job posting. The actual salary depends on a candidate’s skills, experience, and work location.