Revenue Accounting Manager

Palantir Technologies

Revenue Accounting Manager at Palantir managing revenue recognition and collaborating with legal and sales teams to optimize processes. Involving analysis of transactions and refining revenue policies.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $90,000 - $150,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage the revenue recognition process from the contract negotiation phase to financial statement disclosure.
Partnering with Legal and Sales teams to optimize contractual structures to achieve business objectives while ensuring compliance with policies and revenue recognition rules.
Exercise judgment while ensuring that accounting conclusions are documented in technical memos in accordance with policies and current software revenue recognition rules.
Drive revenue and cost of revenue month-end close process by creating and validating accruals, preparing and reviewing journal entries and account reconciliations, ensuring policy compliance and developing standard reports.
Provide technical guidance, training, and support to the Finance, Legal, and Business Development/Sales teams.
Work actively with internal and external auditors to ensure that revenue recognition policies and interpretations are consistent and adhere to GAAP.
Identify, champion, and implement continuous improvement initiatives related to revenue processes, including systems, reporting, analysis.
Partnering with business leadership and the Sales/Finance team on revenue forecasting processes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Extensive experience in application of ASC 606, specifically in the application to enterprise software-as-a-service.
5+ years’ experience within a large public accounting firm and/or a small to mid-size enterprise software company.
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in business administration, economics, finance, accounting, or related field.
Strong communications, presentation, and interpersonal skills, including the ability to summarize key accounting and operational issues to business partners and leadership.
Complex analytic problem solving and project management skills.
Proficiency with NetSuite and/or other revenue recognition accounting systems.
CPA or ACCA/ACA (preferred but not required).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
Commuter benefits
Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan

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Hard Skills & Tools

revenue recognitionGAAPASC 606accrualsjournal entriesaccount reconciliationsfinancial statement disclosurecontract negotiationtechnical memoscontinuous improvement

Soft Skills

communicationpresentationinterpersonal skillsanalytic problem solvingproject managementjudgmenttrainingsupportcollaborationleadership

Certifications

CPAACCAACA