Manager, Revenue Accounting

The role

The Manager, Revenue Accounting will lead end-to-end revenue accounting operations for licensing, collaboration, and revenue-generating agreements. This role involves translating contract terms into operational workflows and ensuring accurate revenue recognition under ASC 606.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end revenue accounting operations for licensing, collaboration, and revenue-generating agreements
• Translate contract terms into scalable operational workflows
• Ensure revenue is recorded with technical accuracy and consistency against accounting policies
• Serve as the operational expert for ASC 606 application
• Review and interpret revenue agreements to identify accounting drivers
• Create contract summaries and accounting treatment matrices
• Own monthly and quarterly revenue close activities
• Maintain revenue tracking documentation and audit-ready records
• Manage invoicing workflows, milestone billing, and cost-sharing arrangements
• Design and refine scalable processes and partner with IT to operationalize workflows in NetSuite

Required qualifications

• 4–7+ years of accounting experience with meaningful exposure to revenue recognition and ASC 606
• Strong working knowledge of ASC 606
• Proven experience operationalizing revenue processes: billing, revenue tracking, reconciliations, and close activities
• Ability to read, interpret, and translate contracts into clear accounting and operational workflows
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Organizational discipline
• Ability to manage multiple complex agreements simultaneously
• Strong communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience in biotech, life sciences, or deep tech environments
• Hands-on experience with licensing agreements, collaboration agreements, milestone-based revenue, or cost-sharing arrangements
• Experience with NetSuite or comparable ERP systems
• CPA or candidate

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• Flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Educational assistance program
• Commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees
• Company subsidized lunch program

About the company

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. The company combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science.