Associate Product Manager - Revenue Accounting

Location: Bengaluru, India

Department: Finance

Experience: 3 - 5 years

About the role

What you'll do

• Own a revenue accounting area end to end: decide what we build, in what order, and explicitly define what you are not building and why.
• Understand the revenue accounting landscape and anticipate and plan for diverse use cases and be an authority on accounting treatment as per ASC 606 / IFRS 15.
• Work closely with our accounting users to understand their workflows and requirements and translate that context to delightful product experiences that create the right numbers that can pass audits.
• Write PRDs with clear scope and requirements that engineering can build from without ambiguity
• Partner with engineering on trade-offs, and scoping decisions to ensure we build for the future while protecting our release timelines.
• Work out where AI belongs in revenue accounting flows and make trade-off decisions about what needs AI, deterministic tools & human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Own the accounting documentation, so a customer can configure their own revenue treatment without asking us
• Give GTM teams the accounting substance to hold a real conversation with a finance buyer, and keep them current as the roadmap moves
• Support sales and customer success on accounting escalations, be the senior accountant as well as product expert in the room to triage & solve problems fast.
• Build enough working knowledge of the system, its APIs, data model, and integrations, to know the engineering consequences of your scoping and feature decisions
• Stay current on accounting guidance as well as practical applications that impact our roadmap

Who you are

• A qualification in accounting: CA, CPA, ACCA, CMA, or an accounting degree with equivalent depth
• 3 to 5 years experience in accounting or related roles, ideally applying US GAAP or IFRS principles to business cases in a revenue function or in audit, advisory, or assurance at an accounting firm
• You can translate accounting guidance and judgements into product decisions that deliver delightful experiences to our users.
• Can take a messy fact pattern and identify patterns and shapes to arrive at scoping and product roadmap decisions
• You use AI tools in your own work and have a view on where they help with accounting and where they get it wrong.
• You are comfortable with technical concepts & willing to learn what you need to have fruitful discussions with Engineering
• Can decompose an ambiguous problem, find the smallest real version of it and be explicit in your decisions
• You want to transition into a product role where you can use your domain expertise to create impact.

You should not apply if

• You need a fully defined problem before you can start working
• You find edge cases annoying rather than interesting
• You find it difficult to handle blurry role boundaries between accounting and products

Good to have

• Product experience of any kind: a side project, an internal tool you specced, a migration you ran
• Hands-on with a billing, revenue, or ERP system: NetSuite, Zuora, SAP, Sage Intacct, Chargebee, Maxio, or similar
• Experience in SaaS or usage-based businesses with complex contracts
• Knowledge of SaaS business models and compliance frameworks
• SQL, or complex spreadsheet work
• Prior experience at a startup
• Not taking yourself too seriously :)

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