Accounts Receivable Accountant

Is This You?

In this role, you’ll be a critical part of our finance team, overseeing Accounts Receivable processes including client invoicing, revenue tracking, payment application, and contributing to forecasting efforts. Your day-to-day will include daily opportunities to exercise critical thinking skills, interpreting contracts to set up new projects and retainers, generating and sending invoices for services and media buying, calculating and recording revenue recognition, supporting revenue forecasting, and receiving payments and collections follow-up.

If you're looking for a role where you can apply your GAAP accounting expertise, think critically, and collaborate with a smart, supportive team, this could be a great fit. We’re looking for someone who’s proactive, reliable, detail-oriented, and communicates clearly—both in person and over email. In this role, you’ll be responsible for recording journal entries, maintaining general ledger accounts, supporting financial reporting and analysis, and assisting with audit prep and compliance.

What You’ll Need:

• Minimum Experience Qualifications: 5 years
• Must Have: experience managing contract revenue 
• Proficient understanding of revenue recognition in GAAP and experience in comprehensive accounting practice areas
• Expertise in Revenue Recognition Methods: Strong knowledge of percent complete, straight-line, and time & material revenue models, which will be essential for training on core revenue modules
• Experience with Deferred Revenue in Project Accounting: Proven ability to support project managers during month-end close processes, particularly in managing deferred revenue
• Ability to Collaborate Across Cross-Functional Teams: Comfortable providing guidance on revenue recognition, processes, and client invoicing while ensuring alignment with project type and Statement of Work (SOW) requirements
• Critical Thinking and Curiosity: Demonstrates sound judgment, asks insightful questions, and exhibits a proactive approach to solving complex financial issues
• Excellent Organizational Abilities: Highly detail-oriented, with the capacity to juggle multiple projects, deadlines, and reporting tasks efficiently and on time
• Office Presence: Hybrid & Situational
• Direct Management Levels: May manage interns
• Tool & Platform Expertise: Expert-level proficiency with Microsoft Suite, especially Excel. Familiarity with accounting platforms such as Intacct and Salesforce is a plus

What You’ll Do:

• Financial Recording and Reporting: Perform a range of routine accounting activities, such as data entry, maintenance of the general ledger, preparation of various accounting statements and financial reports. Review, code, and verify transactions and journal entries. Research and resolve issues and exceptions. Complete simple and complex calculations using spreadsheets and other software tools and assist with trial balances. May be responsible for processing a group of accounts. Act as a resource for less experienced colleagues within the department
• Budgeting and Forecasting: Support data collection and entry within established procedures
• Accounts Receivable: Process a range of project setups, create customer invoices, and handle any changes or issues that occur throughout the project. Oversee the processing and verification of invoices and the receipt of payments. Assist in maintaining the client master list and supporting collections follow-up
• Compliance and Reporting: Support data collection and compilation to support tax compliance and reporting activities
• Financial Risk Management: Ensure timely and accurate posting of cash transactions; perform weekly cash reconciliations
• May have responsibilities in other areas of Accounting, including Accounts Payable

Behaviors:

• Growth Mindset: Embrace growth by proactively seeking different perspectives and training to learn from and continuously iterating. Conduct thorough retrospectives and make recommendations for improvement when failures occur. Regularly exchange meaningful feedback with colleagues
• Communication: Communicate with the team and cross-functionally by facilitating discussions around complex work through multiple channels and groups. Proactively build a collaborative environment, model curiosity, and facilitate respectful conversations in person and in writing
• Reliability: Be widely regarded as someone who does what they say they will do. Enable consistent delivery on projects across the team
• Living Values: Exemplify company values and identify corresponding behaviors in others

Impact:

• Scope: Identify, plan, and complete defined work autonomously, with oversight on complete work from the manager and team. Take action on unplanned work while balancing own goals and commitments. Understand the importance of work to the company and be accountable for delivering end-to-end projects timely and thoroughly
• Prioritization: Own prioritization and provide input for prioritization for lower levels
• Problem Solving: Anticipate issues and blockers proactively. Articulate the root cause of problems using logical assumptions. Define trade-offs and translate insights into solutions
• Expertise: Have experience with specialized skills in a particular area or broad experience across the function. Utilize expertise to ensure process documentation is accurate and identify opportunities to develop cross-training for the team on practice area deliverables, with oversight from the manager. Have a strong understanding of how the department operates and/or have specialized skills in a particular area

Leadership:

• Team Responsibility: May approve timesheets for interns. Conduct reviews with manager/director oversight and input

This Is Us: 

We're Red Door Interactive— a national, award-winning, full-service marketing agency. We work with mid-market and Fortune 500 companies to optimize brand and performance marketing across all channels – paid, earned, and owned. Using data, technology, and top-industry talent, we deliver meaningful brand experiences that drive more revenue for clients such as Titleist, Patagonia, Stone Brewing, Sun Bum, Bosch, among others. Beyond our tactical capabilities, Red Door's approach to client engagements allows us to solve enterprise marketers' biggest challenges around stakeholder alignment, cross-department silos, resourcing, and measurement.  

What's In It For You?   

Working with us, you get a culture of learning and collaboration with professional growth and advancement opportunities.  You will work as part of an engaged, respectful, knowledgeable team that values collaboration and learning. 

We offer a comprehensive benefits package:

• Medical Insurance with 95% of employee premiums paid by the company
• Employer contributions to Employee Health Savings Account
• Dental & Vision Insurance
• Three Weeks of Paid Time Off that increases with tenure in addition to Ten Paid Company Holidays
• 401k Plan with competitive company match
• Custom Semi-Annual Incentive Plans
• Discounted Supplemental Insurance (accident, cancer, short term disability)
• Discounted Pet Insurance

And, these perks:

• HQ Office with on-campus perks such as community garden, EV charging, outdoor patios, collaboration spaces
• Flexible work options with a secure technology infrastructure 
• Tuition Reimbursement Program and budget for conferences and training
• Mental health support with free access to meditation tools 
• Employee Recognition Programs
• Wellness Program that provides free access to fitness classes, gym studios, and more
• Morale & Wellness committee-sponsored team building and social events, in-person and remote
• Surprise & Delight gift perks
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with resources for personal counseling and financial advice
• Client Discounts
• Transparent compensation philosophy and practices
• Opportunities for shadowing, learning, and growth!

 Red Door Interactive is an Equal Opportunity Employer Celebrating the Diversity of our Employees, our Clients, and the Work We Do.