What are the responsibilities and job description for the Revenue Accountant position at Clay?
About Clay
Clay is a creative tool for growth. Our mission is to help businesses grow — without huge investments in tooling or manual labor. We’re already helping over 100,000 people grow their business with Clay. From local pizza shops to enterprises like Anthropic and Notion, our tool lets you instantly translate any idea that you have for growing your company into reality.
We believe that modern GTM teams win by finding GTM alpha — a unique competitive edge powered by data, experimentation, and automation. Clay is the platform they use to uncover hidden signals, build custom plays, and launch faster than their competitors. We’re looking for sharp, low-ego people to help teams find their GTM alpha.
Why is Clay the best place to work?
Revenue Accountant @ Clay
We’re looking for a highly skilled Revenue Accountant to support our revenue recognition, billing operations, and revenue analysis. This role blends traditional accounting with revenue operations to support our sales, customer success, and finance teams to ensure revenue processes are seamless, scalable, and customer-centric. You’ll play a critical part in optimizing the quote-to-cash lifecycle, ensuring accurate and timely month-end closes, and helping drive insights and improvements across our revenue operations. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in a fast-growing, dynamic environment and wants to help shape processes from the ground up.
What You’ll Do
Clay is a creative tool for growth. Our mission is to help businesses grow — without huge investments in tooling or manual labor. We’re already helping over 100,000 people grow their business with Clay. From local pizza shops to enterprises like Anthropic and Notion, our tool lets you instantly translate any idea that you have for growing your company into reality.
We believe that modern GTM teams win by finding GTM alpha — a unique competitive edge powered by data, experimentation, and automation. Clay is the platform they use to uncover hidden signals, build custom plays, and launch faster than their competitors. We’re looking for sharp, low-ego people to help teams find their GTM alpha.
Why is Clay the best place to work?
- Customers love the product (100K users and growing)
- We’re growing a lot (6x YoY last year, and 10x YoY the two years before that)
- Incredible culture (our customers keep applying to work here)
- Well-resourced - We raised a $100M Series C in 2025 at a $3.1B valuation and are backed by world-class investors like Capital G (Google), Sequoia and Meritech
Revenue Accountant @ Clay
We’re looking for a highly skilled Revenue Accountant to support our revenue recognition, billing operations, and revenue analysis. This role blends traditional accounting with revenue operations to support our sales, customer success, and finance teams to ensure revenue processes are seamless, scalable, and customer-centric. You’ll play a critical part in optimizing the quote-to-cash lifecycle, ensuring accurate and timely month-end closes, and helping drive insights and improvements across our revenue operations. This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in a fast-growing, dynamic environment and wants to help shape processes from the ground up.
What You’ll Do
- Act as a key player in the end-to-end revenue accounting process including billing, revenue recognition, and monthly close activities.
- Ensure revenue is recognized in compliance with ASC 606.
- Prepare revenue account reconciliations, journal entries, and reporting packages to support month-end close activities.
- Identify and implement process improvements and automation to scale revenue operations.
- Support external audits by preparing revenue documentation and liaising with auditors.
- Assist in the creation of accounting policies, technical accounting memos, and financial controls.
- Act as the liaison between Sales, GTM ops, and Finance to streamline quote-to-cash workflows.
- Support customer invoicing and collections while ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
- Troubleshoot billing issues and respond to internal and external billing inquiries.
- CPA required and knowledge of US GAAP, specifically ASC 606.
- Experience in Big 4 public accounting and high-growth tech startup.
- Ability to bridge finance and GTM operations, working cross-functionally on projects.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Proven expertise with Excel and extreme attention to detail.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth startup and manage competing priorities.
- Hands-on experience with SaaS/credit-based revenue models, subscription billing systems, and contract review.
- Experience with Stripe, Salesforce, or similar billing and CRM platforms.
- Experience with system implementations, specifically accounting or revenue systems.
- Experience with SQL.