Director of Accounting, Revenue and Compliance

POLITICO is seeking a Director of Revenue and Compliance to lead and oversee the integrity, accuracy, and compliance of our revenue operations. This role sits at the intersection of accounting, systems, and business operations, ensuring our revenue recognition, reporting, and compliance processes align with IFRS standards while supporting a fast-paced, evolving business. As a key partner to Finance, FP&A, and cross-functional teams, you will play a critical role in strengthening our financial infrastructure, driving process improvements, and enabling scalable growth across our global organization.

Who You Are:

• A strategic and detail-oriented accounting leader with deep expertise in revenue recognition and compliance

• Experienced in navigating complex, global environments, with a strong understanding of IFRS and intercompany dynamics

• A systems-savvy operator who can effectively leverage tools like Workday and Salesforce to drive accuracy and efficiency

• A collaborative partner who builds strong relationships across Finance, FP&A, and business teams

• A people leader who develops talent, provides clear direction, and fosters accountability

• Highly organized and analytical, with advanced Excel skills and a strong ability to translate data into insights

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment, with a mindset toward continuous improvement

• Curious and forward-thinking, with an interest in leveraging AI and automation to enhance accounting processes

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and manage all Revenue related activities, including:

• Recording revenue and deferred revenue

• Maintain an accurate AR Ledger and associated allowance

• Confirm revenue account is in line with IFRS policy, research and resolve any differences with local and parent companies

• Manage the interaction with Salesforce, Certinia and Workday

• Review GL Account reconciliations, ensure accounts are reconciled

• Collaborate closely with the FPA team to ensure accurate accounting that aligns to budget and update ongoing processes to consider any issues identified

• Oversee tax and compliance processes for Politico entities

• Support transfer pricing projects and associated implementation

• Support the monthly consolidation reporting process to parent company

• Manage a team of 2 total staff including timely feedback, staff development, regular check-ins and team meetings

• Support Controller on ongoing tasks, projects and research

• Update Workday for new accounts or mapping, manage upcoming releases, build reports and update system as needed

• Collaborate with Axel Springer and other subsidiaries on intercompany activities

• Cross trained with Director of AR, Invoicing and Cash Applications

What You’ll Need:

• Workday Financials experience preferred

• Salesforce experience preferred

• 10+ years of accounting experience, including 2+ years in manager role

• Experience managing and developing staff

• Organized and detailed leader with excellent communication skills

• Very experienced in Excel – pivot tables and advanced formulas

• AI utilization or integration for accounting processes preferred

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About Us.

POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007, we have delivered intelligence that anticipates tomorrow's headlines, not reports on yesterday's news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era, our work has never been more vital.

Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes.

Our 1,100+ publishing professionals across the world's key democratic capitals—Washington, Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin, Sacramento, and New York—form the world's premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it, connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources others don't even know exist.

Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch, we bet that depth would trump scale, that talent would trump traffic, and that politics would become central to modern life. In 2011, we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government, transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself.

These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today, we are a rarity in media: a growing, profitable, and sustainable news organization.

POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE, a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world, believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. The company’s guiding principles - first articulated as The Essentials by founder Axel Springer in the aftermath of World War II - remain a cornerstone of the company’s foundation today. Learn more about Axel Springer.