Accountant

Overview

Glean is seeking a hands-on Accountant to support and progressively take ownership of 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.

What you'll do

• 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.

What you'll need

• 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.
• Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills.
• Clear communication, attention to detail, ownership, learning agility, and ability to work effectively across teams.

Nice to have

• Chartered Accountant, CPA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification.
• Exposure to ASC 606, commission accounting, revenue, or cost of revenue.
• Experience with NetSuite or another ERP.
• Interest in automation or AI.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Work mode: hybrid, 4 days a week in the Bangalore office.