Senior Accountant, Revenue & Automation
About The Position
SeatGeek believes live events are powerful experiences that unite humans. With our technological savvy and fan-first attitude we’re simplifying and modernizing the ticketing industry. SeatGeek is looking for a Senior Accountant to join our Accounting team with a primary focus on revenue accounting, close execution, and process automation. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced close environment and is equally excited about improving how close and revenue processes scale through automation, data, and AI-enabled tools. This is a hands-on individual contributor role reporting to the Senior Manager, Accounting. You will play a critical role in executing the monthly close while also helping modernize revenue and inventory accounting workflows in a high-volume marketplace business.
Requirements
- 3+ years of accounting experience with significant hands-on close execution responsibility (Big 4 experience strongly preferred)
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, with an emphasis on revenue recognition
- Experience with marketplace, eCommerce, or inventory-based businesses is a strong plus
- Strong interest in automation, AI-enabled workflows, and process optimization
- Comfort working with large and complex spreadsheets, with a desire to streamline or replace them
- Familiarity with querying data warehouses and reading SQL. Writing SQL is a plus
- Collaborative and pragmatic approach to partnering with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Curiosity about systems, data flows, and how information moves through a business
- Strong analytical skills, ownership mindset, and attention to detail
Responsibilities
- Own and execute revenue and inventory related close activities as part of the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close process
- Prepare, review, and reconcile close schedules with a strong focus on accuracy, timeliness, and documentation
- Reduce manual close effort by identifying opportunities to automate reconciliations, journal entries, and large spreadsheet-based models
- Leverage data warehouse outputs and reporting tools to support close analytics, variance analysis, and tie-outs
- Ensure revenue is recorded in accordance with U.S. GAAP, including complex and bespoke commercial agreements
- Support inventory accounting processes related to ticket brokerage activities, including cost recognition, reserves, and reconciliations
- Support audit requests related to revenue, inventory, and close processes
- Incorporate new products, business models, or commercial terms into existing revenue accounting processes
- Partner with Business Technology, Data, and Engineering teams to design, test, and implement automation solutions
- Support management to complete special projects and ad-hoc reporting
- Communicate regularly with your manager and teammates, providing proactive updates and surfacing questions early
Benefits
- Equity stake
- Flexible work environment, allowing you to work as many days a week in the office as you’d like or 100% remotely
- A WFH stipend to support your home office setup
- Unlimited PTO
- Up to 16 weeks of fully-paid family leave
- 401(k) matching
- Student loan matching program
- Health, vision, dental, and life insurance
- Up to $25k towards family building, reproductive health services and Gender-affirming care
- $500 per year for wellness expenses
- Subscriptions to Headspace (meditation), Headspace Care (therapy), and One Medical
- $120 per month to spend on tickets to live events
- Annual subscription to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon music
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
