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Revenue Accounting Manager

Pasadena, CA 91188

Posted: 08/18/2026 Job Titles: ACCT OPS- Revenue Accounting Manager Job Number: 5852 Pay Rate: 150,000

Job Description

The Position
Our client is seeking a Revenue Accounting Manager to join its Finance & Accounting team at its Los Angeles, CA headquarters.  Reporting to the Senior Accounting Manager, & working closely with the Controller, the Revenue Accounting Manager will manage all aspects of partnership/collaboration accounting and commercial revenue. 
This is a newly created, high?impact role designed to build and scale best?in?class revenue recognition processes in the life sciences industry, where revenue models are complex and highly specialized. The role carries full ownership of the company’s revenue framework and serves as the subject?matter expert for ASC?606 revenue accounting. Success in this position requires a strong mix of technical accounting expertise, leadership, and cross?functional collaboration to ensure accurate financial reporting, operational efficiency, and SOX compliance. The ideal candidate is detail?driven, highly responsive, tech?savvy, and adaptable in a fast?moving environment, with 5+ years of progressive experience in finance or accounting, with a significant focus on revenue recognition (ASC 606), preferably within biotech or pharmaceutical companies.
This role is based in Los Angeles or San Diego, CA with an expectation to be in office 5 days a week.
Responsibilities
  • Develop a deep understanding of partnership and customer contracts and serve as the subject?matter expert on revenue accounting under ASC?606 and U.S. GAAP. Review and assess complex contracts, including partnership arrangements, to determine appropriate revenue recognition treatment and disclosure requirements.
  • Establish and maintain revenue accounting policies and procedures in accordance with regulatory standards and SOX control requirements.
  • Partner with FP&A to lead cross?functional efforts to ensure accurate tracking of actual labor hours, facilitate updates to budgeted resource assumptions. Ensure inputs to input?method revenue recognition are well?supported, accurate, and audit?ready.
  • Perform order-to-cash month?end and quarter-end close activities, including the preparation and posting of journal entries, completion of balance sheet reconciliations and flux analysis.
  • Assist with gross-to-net revenue accounting, including reviewing support provided by the 3rd party and month-end close activities.
  • Lead the preparation of revenue?related disclosures for the Company’s Forms 10?Q and 10?
  • Prepare and maintain SOX?compliant controls for the revenue and accounts receivable cycles, ensuring proper execution and documentation.
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of financial accounting experience, with a significant focus on revenue recognition (ASC 606).
  • In?depth knowledge of U.S. GAAP and SOX compliance requirements as they apply to revenue recognition, receivables, contract assets and deferred revenue
  • Demonstrated ability to manage and execute complex monthly and quarterly close processes.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate complex accounting guidance clearly and effectively to non?finance and cross?functional partners.
  • Strong capability to lead change initiatives and successfully manage complex, multi?phase projects.
  • Strong organizational skills, with a focus on accuracy, detail orientation and the ability to produce in tight timelines
  • Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
  • Possess the highest level of integrity
  • Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment
  • Excellent team player
  • Self-motivated with an insatiable desire to learn & be challenged
  • Ability for occasional travel between Arrowhead’s locations
Preferred
  • Demonstrated experience in a technical accounting role within the life sciences, biotech, or pharmaceutical industry
  • Big 4 accounting firm experience
  • Public company experience

email: dgavello@allianceresourcegroup.com

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Meet Your Recruiter

Dean Gavello, MBA
Manager, Executive Search

After almost 30 years in executive search and recruiting, Dean Gavello is an incredible partner to Alliance’s clients and candidates.  Dean joined Alliance in 2016 after successfully owning and operating an executive recruiting firm for more than two decades. He has an innate ability to understand industry trends and is extremely skilled at coaching clients in how to best position their role and candidates on how to best showcase their skillset in the current market.

His portfolio spans multiple industries including manufacturing, technology, pharmaceutical, medical device, healthcare, public accounting, and aerospace. Dean earned an MBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Connecticut. He is also a former president of the Orange County Chapter of California Staffing Professionals. 

A father of four, Dean and his wife share their home with a dog, two cats, and a fish named Blue.

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