Position purpose The Revenue Accounting Data Product Owner will lead the business-side design, prioritization, adoption, and value realization of The Specialty Alliance's revenue-recognition and accrual data product. The role is designed for a physician-led, multi-specialty MSO that combines shared operational infrastructure, analytics, revenue-cycle support, and growth services while preserving practice-level clinical autonomy.
This leader will translate accounting policy, close requirements, revenue-cycle realities, and management-reporting needs into a prioritized and governed product backlog for the Azure / Snowflake-based revenue accounting data platform. The role sits at the intersection of Finance, Accounting, Revenue Cycle, and Data & Analytics and is responsible for ensuring the product solves real close-process and control needs rather than becoming a purely technical build.
The primary purpose of the role is to ensure TSA's revenue accounting automation agenda remains Finance-led, control-oriented, and operationally adoptable. This position owns product direction, business requirements, acceptance criteria, testing coordination, stakeholder alignment, and measurable value realization for automated revenue-recognition and accrual capabilities.
Responsibilities/Duties/Functions/Tasks:
- Own the technical roadmap and delivery plan for the Revenue Recognition Data Product, including source onboarding, data quality, reconciliation, controls, and production support.
- Architect and build scalable ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines using Azure services and Snowflake.
- Develop a canonical revenue-accounting data model that standardizes charges, payments, adjustments, contractual allowances, refunds, credit balances, unapplied cash, denials, reserves, accruals, and journal-entry support.
- Translate accounting requirements and revenue-recognition policy into transparent, version-controlled transformation logic, while Accounting retains policy ownership and final close approval.
- Establish automated reconciliations among source systems, subledgers, RCM platforms, data-product outputs, and the general ledger, with documented exception-management workflows.
- Build data controls for completeness, accuracy, timeliness, uniqueness, lineage, change management, and period-close signoff.
- Produce auditable documentation, including source-to-target mappings, business rules, control evidence, lineage, data dictionaries, runbooks, and release records.
- Partner with Finance and Revenue Cycle leaders to define close-calendar milestones, materiality thresholds, approval points, and service-level expectations.
- Lead technical discovery and onboarding for multiple practice groups and acquired entities, balancing enterprise standardization with local-system variation.
- Implement observability and support practices, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-close validation.
- Establish reusable engineering standards for SQL, Python, Git-based development, CI/CD, testing, infrastructure-as-code, security, and peer review.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership for future revenue-accounting engineering workstreams.
- Communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical stakeholders, including reconciliation results, delivery status, risks, decisions needed, and realized value.
Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, information systems, healthcare administration, or a related field; equivalent experience considered.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in finance transformation, revenue accounting, revenue cycle, healthcare finance, product management, business analysis, or related functions.
- 3+ years leading cross-functional initiatives involving Finance, operations, and technology teams.
- Demonstrated experience translating complex accounting or financial-process requirements into technology-delivery backlogs and business requirements.
- Strong understanding of revenue recognition, accruals, close-cycle processes, reconciliations, controls, and management reporting.
- Experience working with data, analytics, reporting, or engineering teams to deliver process automation or enterprise data products.
- Strong facilitation, stakeholder-management, and decision-making skills in environments with competing priorities.
- Ability to define acceptance criteria, test strategy, issue triage processes, and value-realization measures.
- Strong written communication and executive presentation skills.
Preferred qualifications - Healthcare-provider, MSO, physician-practice, payer, or revenue-cycle experience.
- Direct exposure to charge capture, claims, remittances, contractual allowances, denials, patient balances, refunds, reserves, or GL close support.
- Experience with enterprise data and analytics platforms, particularly Snowflake, Azure, Power BI, or comparable ecosystems.
- Familiarity with financial controls, internal audit, SOX-like disciplines, or external-audit support, even if not in a public-company context.
- Experience in M&A integration, practice onboarding, or multi-entity finance standardization.
- CPA, CMA, MBA, or other relevant business or accounting credential preferred but not required.
Performance Requirements: - Self-managed or need little supervision
- Persistence in staying on task to solve technical problems
- Flexibility and initiative
- Accountability for own schedule and reporting on activities
- Conceptual thinking
Equipment Operated: This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, and fax machines.
Work Environment: This job operates in professional office environments.
Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
