Senior Director, Revenue Accounting

Role Overview

• Build, mentor, and develop a high performing revenue accounting and accounting operations leadership team, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Ensure revenue processes and controls are designed to scale with the company’s growth, reducing manual intervention and increasing automation over time.
• Assess public company readiness of existing processes in the order-to-cash and related business cycles; devise roadmap for improvements wherever needed
• Lead the development of a long-term roadmap to modernize revenue systems and reporting capabilities in partnership with Data and Business Systems teams.
• Partner with Sales Operations, Sales, and Legal to provide input and thought-leadership around sales commission structuring which should promote healthy deal practices
• Set DSO and DPO targets and ensure existence of adequate plans to meet them and exceed them
• Serve as a strategic advisor to Sales and Legal on complex deal structuring, ensuring alignment between commercial objectives and revenue recognition requirements under US GAAP
• Provide strategic advice on future global expansion of the B2B business through understanding and analysis of revenue-related data and trends; amend processes, as needed, to support our growing global operations
• Collaborate with members of the FP&A team to ensure alignment in understanding for how various transactions are accounted for.
• Advocate for a positive customer experience while ensuring that policies and procedures are properly followed.
• Lead the team through analysis of revenue-related trends
• Partner with Data and FP&A teams to solidify definitions and calculations of non-GAAP revenue-related metrics, such as ARR
• Help deliver a positive employee experience for all stakeholders who interact with Revenue Accounting including Sales, Sales Operations, Legal, and others.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including senior leadership roles within high growth SaaS or technology companies; CPA, or equivalent, required.
• An understanding of revenue, related technical accounting concepts in accordance with the U.S. GAAP and complex SaaS revenue models
• Deep understanding for internal and external financial reporting needs
• Proven track-record of running efficient monthly close processes, handling internal and external audits, and managing auditor relationships
• Excellent people leadership skills
• AI forward thinking with ability to leverage tools and agents to enable a more efficient accounting function without sacrificing accuracy
• Ability to inspire and recognize the team while working under tight deadlines and managing multiple competing priorities
• Ability to set standards, multi-task and work with minimal supervision while adhering to essential deadlines
• Ability to lead problem-solving efforts while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to demonstrate teamwork skills
• Advanced expertise in accounting systems, ability to understand problems, envision solutions and influence teams towards right systematic or manual solutions
• Experience with any data visualization tools, such as Looker, is considered a significant asset
• Proven experience leading revenue accounting within a high growth SaaS organization at scale, with demonstrated success scaling processes through rapid growth.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and unpredictability.

Benefits

• health, dental, 401k and many others
• generous paid time off
• an equity grant