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Glean is seeking a hands-on Revenue Accountant to support and progressively own key accounting processes across sales commissions, revenue, and cost of revenue. This role applies US GAAP and ASC 606 fundamentals through disciplined month-end execution, reconciliations, audit support, and process improvement.
Key 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 accounting conclusions
- 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 commission computation, accounting treatment, journal-entry flow, review controls, and open items
- Support 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
About Glean:
Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. It powers intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business. Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC's Disruptor 50, Bloomberg's AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner's Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean serves customers across 50+ industries with 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries.
The role is hybrid, requiring 4 days per week in the Bangalore office. As part of the interview process, candidates will complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion to demonstrate how they think about, design, and use AI to drive impact in their role.
Requirements:
- 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
