Accountant

About Glean:

Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.

At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level.

Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.

If you’re excited to shape how the world works, you’ll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. You’ll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company.

About the Role:

Glean is seeking a hands-on Accountant to support and progressively take ownership of key accounting processes across sales commissions, revenue, and cost of revenue. This role will apply US GAAP and ASC 606 fundamentals through disciplined month-end execution, reconciliations, audit support, and process improvement. The successful candidate will take ownership of recurring commission accounting activities, support cost of revenue allocations and flux analysis, and provide backup coverage for revenue contract reviews and related accounting conclusions. The role will partner closely with Revenue, Payroll, Sales Operations, Finance Systems, FP&A, Tax, Legal, and external auditors. This is a strong fit for an accountant who can move from source data to accounting conclusion to a complete, well-supported close deliverable-and who is comfortable improving processes in a fast-growing technology company.

You will:

• Own the monthly commission accounting workflow from plan and payout inputs through accruals, capitalization, amortization, expense recognition, actuals, and reconciliation.
• Evaluate which commission costs should be expensed versus capitalized and maintain support for the accounting conclusion.
• Prepare and review commission accruals, commission payable entries, reversals, deferred commission entries, and amortization schedules.
• Reconcile commission payable, deferred commission, commission expense, payroll, contractor bills, and cash-related activity across entities and periods.
• Investigate variances between estimates, accruals, approved payouts, payroll actuals, and final settlement amounts.
• Partner with Sales Operations, Payroll, Accounting Operations, and Finance Systems to resolve plan, eligibility, hierarchy, mapping, and data-quality exceptions.
• Maintain clear documentation of the commission computation, accounting treatment, journal-entry flow, review controls, and open items.
• Support the monthly and quarterly cost of revenue close, including completeness, cut-off, classification, allocations, reconciliations, and flux analysis.
• Prepare allocation workpapers for cloud, LLM, hosting, support, on-call, and other relevant costs using documented drivers; investigate material movements and data gaps.
• Provide backup coverage for revenue accounting and contract reviews during peak periods and planned absences.
• Review commercial arrangements and support ASC 606 conclusions relating to contract modifications, material rights, variable consideration, standalone selling price, and deferred revenue.
• Prepare concise accounting analyses and translate conclusions into journal entries, revenue schedules, reconciliations, and controls.
• Prepare audit-ready schedules, reconciliations, workpapers, and explanations for internal and external audit requests.
• Support walkthroughs, PBC requests, sampling, issue resolution, and remediation tracking.
• Design and execute reviewer controls over commission, revenue, and cost of revenue processes, including completeness, accuracy, cut-off, approval, and evidence-retention controls.
• Maintain SOPs, process narratives, control descriptions, and recurring close checklists.
• Escalate accounting judgments, control exceptions, data limitations, and close risks early and clearly.
• Partner with Finance Systems and process owners to improve NetSuite, spreadsheets, data integrations, reconciliations, and reporting workflows.
• Identify and support practical automation and AI opportunities while maintaining data validation, human review, controls, and auditability.
• Work closely with Sales Operations, Revenue, Payroll, FP&A, Tax, Legal, and other stakeholders to resolve data issues, exceptions, and close dependencies.
• Communicate accounting requirements clearly and drive timely follow-up on inputs, approvals, and open items.

 About you:

• Chartered Accountant, CPA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification preferred.
• 1-3 years of experience in accounting, audit, financial reporting, or a related finance role, with exposure to month-end close and reconciliations.
• Working knowledge of US GAAP; exposure to ASC 606, commission accounting, revenue, or cost of revenue is an advantage but not required.
• Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills; experience with NetSuite or another ERP and interest in automation or AI are preferred.
• Clear communication, attention to detail, ownership, learning agility, and ability to work effectively across teams.

Location:  

• This role is hybrid (4 days a week in our Bangalore office)

Compensation & Benefits:

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

We are a diverse bunch of people, and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.

AI-First Mindset at Glean:

At Glean, AI fluency is core to how we work and we're committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about, design, and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today - prior Glean experience isn't required.

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