Senior Staff Accountant

About HighLevel:
HighLevel is a cloud-based, all-in-one white-label marketing and sales platform that empowers marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. With a focus on streamlining marketing efforts and providing comprehensive solutions, HighLevel helps businesses of all sizes achieve their marketing goals. We currently have 1000+ employees across 15 countries, working remotely as well as in our headquarters, which is located in Dallas, Texas. Our goal as an employer is to maintain a strong company culture, foster creativity and collaboration, and encourage a healthy work-life balance for our employees wherever they call home.
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Our Customers:
HighLevel serves a diverse customer base, including over 60K agencies & entrepreneurs and 450K million businesses globally. Our customers range from small and medium-sized businesses to enterprises, spanning various industries and sectors.
Scale at HighLevel:
We work at scale; our infrastructure handles around 3 Billion+ API hits & 2 Billion+ message events monthly and over 25M views of customer pages daily. We also handle over 80 Terabytes of data across 5 Databases.
Who You Are:
HighLevel is looking for an outstanding accountant who is detail oriented and analytical with a solid understanding of revenue recognition and commission accounting. You are comfortable working with SaaS based revenue and commission structures, ensuring timely and accurate payments to affiliates. You enjoy collaborating across teams to improve processes and ensure compliance, while your strong communication skills help clarify accounting related matters around commissions and revenue.
What You'll Be Doing:

• Monitor and reconcile revenue accounts, including subscription-based and usage-based revenue streams, to ensure proper recognition and reporting.
• Work with the affiliates team in the calculation, tracking, and processing of affiliate commissions, ensuring timely and accurate payments.
• Collaborate with marketing, finance, and legal team to review and verify commission structures, agreements, and related payments.
• Help develop, document, and test processes/controls around affiliate commissions and payments.
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies related to commission calculations, payments, or revenue recognition.
• Respond to internal and external tickets/inquiries related to commission payments and revenue discrepancies.
• Assist with month-end close activities, including revenue, reconciling commissions expense and the related accrual, each period.
• Identify areas to streamline processes related to revenue recognition and commission payments.
• Stay up to date on relevant accounting principals, regulations, and industry best practices.
• Assist with internal and external audits.

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• CPA or other relevant certification is preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in accounting.
• Strong understanding of revenue recognition principles and ASC 606.
• Familiarity with SaaS business models and subscription-based revenue is a plus.
• Experience with commission calculations and sales incentive plans a plus.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets.
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy, and organizational skills.
• Ability to prioritize tasks effectively and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Experience with process improvement initiatives is a plus.
• Self-starter who is proactive, takes initiative and follows through on tasks in a timely manner.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities Excellent organization and time management skills.

EEO Statement:
At HighLevel, we value diversity. In fact, we understand it makes our organization stronger. We are committed to inclusive hiring/promotion practices that evaluate skill sets, abilities and qualifications without regard to any characteristic unrelated to performing the job at the highest level. Our objective is to foster an environment where really talented employees from all walks of life can be their true and whole selves, cherished and welcomed for their differences, while providing awesome service to our clients and learning from one another along the way!
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.