Revenue Accounting Manager

84.51° Overview:

84.51° is a retail data science, insights and media company. We help The Kroger Co., consumer packaged goods companies, agencies, publishers and affiliates create more personalized and valuable experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase.

Powered by cutting-edge science, we utilize first-party retail data from more than 62 million U.S. households sourced through the Kroger Plus loyalty card program to fuel a more customer-centric journey using 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing and our retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing.

84.51° follows a 5‑day in‑office work schedule to support collaboration, alignment, and team connection.

Join us at 84.51°!

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The Revenue Accounting Manager will lead and oversee accounting operations, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting for 84.51°. This role involves managing direct reports, optimizing accounting processes, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations.

SUMMARY:

The Revenue Accounting Manager is responsible for leading revenue accounting, revenue-related close activities, financial controls, and reporting support for a complex, fast-growing media and analytics business. This role ensures accurate revenue recognition, scalable revenue accounting processes, strong data governance, and effective cross-functional partnership.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead revenue accounting and revenue-related close activities for a complex, multi-channel media and analytics business with revenue across in-store media, CPG client solutions, and strategic partnerships.
• Ensure revenue is recorded accurately and in accordance with company revenue recognition policies, U.S. GAAP, and applicable revenue recognition guidance, including the evaluation of new and evolving products, pricing models, transaction structures, and partnership arrangements.
• Own revenue recognition processes for commercial arrangements, including review of contract terms, performance obligations, transaction price considerations, timing of recognition, and related accounting conclusions.
• Establish and maintain strong controls over revenue data flows, source-system inputs, reconciliations, allocations, cost of sales, accruals, and management reporting outputs.
• Manage review of revenue-related reconciliations, ensuring timely resolution of variances, accurate close deliverables, and audit-ready documentation.
• Support period financial statement submissions to Kroger through revenue-related reporting, variance analysis, reconciliations, and business performance insights.
• Partner with Accounting, Finance, Sales, Client Leadership, Legal, Business Systems, Data teams, and Kroger, to ensure revenue recognition, cost of sales, close, and reporting processes are accurate and scalable.
• Provide accounting guidance and operational support for new products, strategic partnerships, client arrangements, and evolving business models.
• Drive process improvements, automation, data governance enhancements, and system changes to support increasing transaction volume, business complexity, and reporting needs.
• Serve as a key revenue accounting leader in ERP, CRM, reporting, and finance system implementations or enhancements, including design, testing, controls, and change management activities.
• Lead complex, ambiguous revenue accounting and finance initiatives independently, developing recommendations, influencing stakeholders, and driving issues to resolution.
• Mentor, develop, and provide work direction to revenue accounting team members or related accounting resources while building scalable processes, clear ownership, and consistent execution

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance required; MBA and/or CPA preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of corporate accounting experience, with significant experience in revenue accounting, revenue recognition, revenue-related close activities, or technical accounting preferred.
• Experience supporting complex revenue streams, preferably in media, advertising, retail media, data analytics, technology, CPG, or other fast-growing commercial environments.
• Strong understanding of revenue recognition principles and experience evaluating new products, contracts, pricing structures, performance obligations, and related accounting impacts.
• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with cross-functional teams on revenue-related matters.
• Experience improving revenue accounting processes through automation, system implementation, process redesign, data governance, or controls enhancement.
• Advanced Excel skills and ability to execute detailed work independently and accurately, particularly with large quantities of data from multiple sources.
• Experience with Dynamics, Salesforce, and reporting tools preferred.
• Experience with new system implementations, transformation projects, or high-growth process scaling preferred.
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience supervising revenue accounting team members, accounting resources, or revenue-related accounting functions.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving business with ambiguity, increasing scale, complex data flows, and cross-functional dependencies.

Pay Transparency and Benefits

• The stated salary range represents the entire span applicable across all geographic markets from lowest to highest.  Actual salary offers will be determined by multiple factors including but not limited to geographic location, relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and alignment with market data and cost of labor. In addition to salary, this position is also eligible for variable compensation.
• Below is a list of some of the benefits we offer our associates:
• Health: Medical: with competitive plan designs and support for self-care, wellness and mental health. Dental: with in-network and out-of-network benefit. Vision: with in-network and out-of-network benefit.
• Wealth: 401(k) with Roth option and matching contribution. Health Savings Account with matching contribution (requires participation in qualifying medical plan). AD&D and supplemental insurance options to help ensure additional protection for you.
• Happiness: Paid time off with flexibility to meet your life needs, including 5 weeks of vacation time, 7 health and wellness days, 3 floating holidays, as well as 6 company-paid holidays per year. Paid leave for maternity, paternity and family care instances.

Pay Range

$102,000 - $150,000 USD