Director, Revenue Accounting & Consolidation

Job ID: 3751Req ID: 825Location: Chicago, IL, USA; New England, USAPay: USD 175000 - 220000 (Salary)Posted: 2026-10-05Pay Type: Salary LevelBlue reduces risk and builds lasting resilience so organizations can innovate and advance their mission with confidence. As the world’s most analyst-recognized and largest pure-play managed security services provider, LevelBlue elevates client outcomes that matter: stronger defense, faster response, and sustained business continuity. LevelBlue combines AI-powered security operations, advanced threat intelligence, and elite human expertise to provide the most comprehensive portfolio of strategic advisory, managed security, offensive security, and incident response services. Chicago based candidates preferred, will consider candidates from New England region. LevelBlue is seeking a Director, Revenue Accounting & Consolidation to lead revenue accounting, the close and consolidation process, financial reporting, audit readiness, and accounting-process improvement across a growing, multi-entity global business. This role will serve as the internal accounting leader for LevelBlue’s finance stabilization and transformation agenda. The Director will be accountable for resolving historical revenue-accounting and contract-data matters; establishing repeatable, controlled processes; and partnering with Finance Operations, Finance Systems, Tax, Legal, business leaders, and external advisors to embed sustainable outcomes into ongoing operations. The role is a hands-on leadership position requiring sound technical judgment, strong execution discipline, and the ability to operate effectively amid incomplete data and evolving systems. Key Responsibilities Own revenue accounting under ASC 606, including contract review, identification of performance obligations, standalone selling-price considerations, revenue recognition, deferred-revenue accounting, and related controls. Lead the accounting work required to complete and sustain FY24/FY25 remediation, including customer-to-contract, contract-to-billing, billing-to-revenue, cash-to-AR, and revenue-to-GL reconciliations; deferred-revenue rollforwards; and appropriately supported accounting adjustments. Establish a timely, repeatable monthly, quarterly, and annual close process, including close calendars, account reconciliations, review controls, issue escalation, and documentation standards. Lead multi-entity consolidation, including entity reporting packages, intercompany accounting and eliminations, foreign-entity coordination, and consolidated financial reporting support. Serve as Controllership’s business owner for consolidation-process design and finance transformation initiatives, including business requirements, accounting design, testing, user acceptance, parallel close, control design, and adoption for any systems upgrades. Partner with Finance Systems and IT on data flows, master-data requirements, source-of-truth standards, and the NetSuite/ERP integration roadmap; Finance Systems and IT retain responsibility for technical solution design and implementation. Partner with Finance Operations, which owns invoicing and collections execution, to ensure billing, AR, contract, and cash data support complete and accurate accounting and revenue recognition. Lead audit readiness, including PBC coordination, accounting memoranda, support for audit requests, remediation of audit findings, and delivery against the external-audit and statutory-reporting calendar. Support accounting for acquisitions and integrations, including purchase accounting, opening-balance-sheet activities, accounting-policy harmonization, entity onboarding, and post-close reporting integration. Establish and maintain accounting policies and procedures, including intercompany processes and coordination with Tax on transfer-pricing requirements. Direct and develop accounting team members; set clear accountability, build capabilities, and reduce key-person dependencies. Manage and challenge external advisors: define accounting requirements, review analyses and recommendations, approve accounting conclusions, and ensure work products are fully documented and operationalized. Accountability SplitThis Role Owns Revenue-recognition conclusions and revenue-accounting results Deferred-revenue accounting and revenue-related reconciliations Close-process execution, accounting controls, and issue escalation Consolidation-process ownership, including intercompany accounting and eliminations Accounting-policy decisions and supporting documentation Audit support, PBC ownership, and remediation of accounting findings Accounting requirements, testing, validation, and adoption for remediation and transformation initiatives Sustainable process ownership after external support concludes Finance Transformation Office Owns Program governance and integrated workplan management Executive reporting and transformation portfolio oversight Cross-functional milestone, dependency, risk, and issue management Coordination across workstreams and external providers Finance Operations Owns Billing, invoicing, cash application, collections, and operational AR execution Operational customer and transaction data required to support accounting Finance Systems and IT Own Technical architecture, system configuration, integrations, data engineering, and production support Technical implementation of NetSuite, OneStream, and related platforms External Consultants Own Agreed remediation-project execution, data analysis, reconciliations, process assessments, and supporting documentation Technical accounting recommendations and implementation support, subject to LevelBlue approval Qualifications Active CPA required. 12+ years of progressive accounting experience, including significant leadership responsibility in a complex, multi-entity environment. Deep ASC 606, contract accounting, deferred revenue, close, consolidation, and intercompany-accounting experience. Demonstrated success leading historical accounting cleanup or remediation while designing sustainable processes and controls. Strong external-audit management experience, including PBC coordination, audit issue resolution, and preparation of technical accounting support. Experience with acquisitions, purchase accounting, opening-balance-sheet activities, and integration of acquired entities strongly preferred. Experience working across multiple legal entities and international operations; exposure to statutory reporting and transfer-pricing coordination preferred. NetSuite experience strongly preferred; OneStream or comparable consolidation/EPM implementation experience preferred. Private-equity-backed, acquisitive, or rapidly transforming-company experience strongly preferred. Big Four or comparable public-accounting experience preferred. Proven ability to lead teams, influence cross-functional partners, and make sound decisions in a high-accountability environment. Why Join LevelBlue? At LevelBlue, you’re not just an employee—you’re part of a team making a real difference in the world of cybersecurity. We foster a culture of innovation and creativity where your contributions are valued, and you’ll have the support and resources to grow and thrive. Benefits and Perks: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance. 401(k) with employer matching. Generous paid time off and holidays. Flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts. Employee assistance programs. Training and development opportunities. Adoption assistance program. This role is open to candidates legally authorized to work in the United States. At LevelBlue, we support flexible work and bring people together in person for key moments based on role, team, and business needs. LevelBlue is committed to a culture of respect, inclusion, and equal opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other status protected under applicable law. To all agencies: Please do not contact LevelBlue employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team. LevelBlue’s policy is to only accept resumes from agencies through its approved agency process and with a valid agreement in place. Any resume submitted outside this process will be considered the property of LevelBlue, and no fee will be paid if a candidate is hired from such a submission. #LI-MC1 #LI-Remote