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Glean· G&A
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Hybrid (Bangalore)Full-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Hands-on Accountant to support and progressively own key accounting processes across sales commissions, revenue, and cost of revenue, applying US GAAP and ASC 606 fundamentals through month-end execution, reconciliations, audit support, and process improvement. Partners with multiple finance and operations teams; hybrid role based in Bangalore.

Responsibilities

  • Own the monthly commission accounting workflow from plan and payout inputs through accruals, capitalization, amortization, expense recognition, actuals, and reconciliation.
  • Evaluate which commission costs should be expensed versus capitalized and maintain support for the accounting conclusion.
  • Prepare and review commission accruals, commission payable entries, reversals, deferred commission entries, and amortization schedules.
  • Reconcile commission payable, deferred commission, commission expense, payroll, contractor bills, and cash-related activity across entities and periods.
  • Investigate variances between estimates, accruals, approved payouts, payroll actuals, and final settlement amounts.
  • Partner with Sales Operations, Payroll, Accounting Operations, and Finance Systems to resolve plan, eligibility, hierarchy, mapping, and data-quality exceptions.
  • Maintain clear documentation of the commission computation, accounting treatment, journal-entry flow, review controls, and open items.
  • Support the monthly and quarterly cost of revenue close, including completeness, cut-off, classification, allocations, reconciliations, and flux analysis.
  • Prepare allocation workpapers for cloud, LLM, hosting, support, on-call, and other relevant costs using documented drivers; investigate material movements and data gaps.
  • Provide backup coverage for revenue accounting and contract reviews during peak periods and planned absences.
  • Review commercial arrangements and support ASC 606 conclusions relating to contract modifications, material rights, variable consideration, standalone selling price, and deferred revenue.
  • Prepare concise accounting analyses and translate conclusions into journal entries, revenue schedules, reconciliations, and controls.
  • Prepare audit-ready schedules, reconciliations, workpapers, and explanations for internal and external audit requests.
  • Support walkthroughs, PBC requests, sampling, issue resolution, and remediation tracking.
  • Design and execute reviewer controls over commission, revenue, and cost of revenue processes, including completeness, accuracy, cut-off, approval, and evidence-retention controls.
  • Maintain SOPs, process narratives, control descriptions, and recurring close checklists.
  • Escalate accounting judgments, control exceptions, data limitations, and close risks early and clearly.
  • Partner with Finance Systems and process owners to improve NetSuite, spreadsheets, data integrations, reconciliations, and reporting workflows.
  • Identify and support practical automation and AI opportunities while maintaining data validation, human review, controls, and auditability.
  • Work closely with Sales Operations, Revenue, Payroll, FP&A, Tax, Legal, and other stakeholders to resolve data issues, exceptions, and close dependencies.
  • Communicate accounting requirements clearly and drive timely follow-up on inputs, approvals, and open items.

Qualifications

  • Chartered Accountant, CPA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification preferred.
  • 1–3 years of experience in accounting, audit, financial reporting, or a related finance role, with exposure to month-end close and reconciliations.
  • Working knowledge of US GAAP; exposure to ASC 606, commission accounting, revenue, or cost of revenue is an advantage but not required.
  • Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills; experience with NetSuite or another ERP and interest in automation or AI are preferred.
  • Clear communication, attention to detail, ownership, learning agility, and ability to work effectively across teams.

Skills

Required:US GAAPCommission accountingExcel / Google SheetsCommunication
Nice to have:ASC 606NetSuite or ERP
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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