Senior Revenue Accountant

Cloudflare; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Revenue Accountant to ensure US GAAP revenue recognition complies with company policies while infusing AI-driven automation for scalable, accurate processes. The role blends advisory and operational duties, handling token-based usage and evolving AI revenue streams with automated tools.

You will partner with legal, sales, and finance teams to review contracts, prepare journal entries, and advance revenue analytics; mentoring junior staff and reporting KPIs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field (or advanced experience).
• Active CPA mandatory.
• Accounting/Audit firm experience preferred.
• 4+ years in accounting roles.
• Proven ability to leverage AI and automation tools for efficiency and data analysis.
• Strong understanding of ASC 606 revenue accounting.
• Experience with revenue systems (billing ERP/subledger).
• Revenue recognition for SaaS and multi-element arrangements.
• Ability to collaborate with Sales and other departments.
• Advanced MS Excel proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Participates in accounting close activities; uses AI/automation to streamline processes.
• Collaborates with legal, sales, and other teams on deal reviews and contract accounting.
• Prepares/reviews journal entries and reconciliations; conducts financial analysis for management/auditors.
• Supports AI-driven initiatives to enhance revenue analytics and automation.
• Maintains awareness of US GAAP updates and guidance; mentors junior staff.
• Communicates issues to management; presents findings and solutions to leadership.
• Establishes and tracks KPI’s; supports external audit preparations with AI-enabled workbooks.
• Coordinates with auditors on accounting issues and queries; ensures controls adapt to changes.

Skills

Bachelor Accounting

Active CPA

Accounting Firm Experience

4+ years accounting

AI automation experience

ASC 606

SaaS Revenue

Billing/ERP systems

Sales collaboration

Excel skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Active CPA certification

Tools

Billing/ERP systems

Revenue recognition tool / subledger

Job description

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

Available Locations

Austin, TX, San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY

Role Summary

The Senior Revenue Accountant’s primary responsibility is ensuring the Company’s revenue recognition is in compliance with US GAAP and Company policies, while leaning heavily into AI-driven automation to enhance process efficiency and scalability. The role is both advisory and operational in nature, helping business partners make informed decisions while managing complex accounting processes—including token-based usage and evolving AI-related revenue streams—through the adoption of innovative, automated tools.

Role Responsibilities

• Participates in accounting close activities, including:
  • Leverage AI and automation tools to streamline close processes (ie flux analysis automation, enhancing reconciliations, automating large datasets)
  • Partnering with other teams (legal, sales, etc.) to interpret, research, discuss, and / or process deal reviews
  • Complete contract accounting of executed customer contracts
  • Preparation / review of journal entries
  • Preparation / review of reconciliations and related financial analysis for management and external reporting
• Participates in Company-wide AI driven initiatives and cross-functional projects that directly impact or relate to the revenue accounting area, particularly increasing the revenue analytical capabilities
• Proactively identify and implement AI-driven automation solutions to transform revenue accounting workflows, prioritizing process efficiency, scalability, and reduction of manual effort.
• Adopt a "clean sheet" methodology to evaluate operational processes, specifically leveraging generative AI and advanced automation tools to streamline complex tasks and enhance overall accuracy.
• Stay current on the latest financial accounting and reporting developments and U.S GAAP reporting requirements, as applicable.
• Mentors and supports junior members of the team and provides feedback
• Communicates any problems to senior management timely
• Present findings and solutions to the management team, while considering global impacts and subsequent guidance to influence other regions where appropriate to adopt a consistent process and policy
• Establish and track Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
• Prepares schedules in support of the external audit process while also utilizing AI capabilities to streamline any workbooks
• Coordinates with the auditors on accounting issues and audit related queries
• Reviews and maintains controls as the business environment changes as a result of process, system and policy enhancements. Includes risk assessment and review of risk areas

Must-Have Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, or a related field, or advanced experience
• Active CPA
• Accounting/Audit firm experience preferred
• 4+ years of experience in accounting roles
• Proven ability to leverage AI and automation tools to drive process efficiencies, data analysis, and workflow improvements.
• Strong understanding of revenue accounting rules under ASC 606
• Experience working with revenue related systems such as billing systems, ERP, and revenue recognition tool / subledger
• Revenue accounting for SaaS revenue recognition and understanding of multi-element arrangements
• Ability to work effectively with various departments, particularly Sales
• Ability to manage multiple priorities
• Flexibility to work under time constraints and deadlines
• Must be meticulous, detail oriented, and organized
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work independently, yet cooperatively and constructively in a team environment
• Highly proficient in advanced MS Excel

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

San Francisco Estimated Base salary $131,000 - $180,000.

New York Estimated Base salary $126,000 - $173,000.

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo

Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project

In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1

We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

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