Virtual
Lead Accountant / Associate Accounting Manager, Revenue Recognition
Virtual, La Jolla, California, us, 92093
About Vaco:
Vaco provides expert consulting, permanent placement, executive search, and strategic staffing for companies around the world, in the areas of accounting, finance, operations, administration and more. As a premier talent solutions firm, Vaco connects people to their dream jobs and helps leading companies find talent to grow their business.
About the Company:
Publicly Traded SaaS Company
Title:
Lead Accountant/Associate Accounting Manager
Location : San Diego - Hybrid
Salary:
$125-145k + Bonus + RSUs
Description:
As an individual contributor, responsibilities include working with the business unit marketers, product managers, Finance, and IT teams to understand business strategy, systems roadmaps, and end-to-end offering requirements in order to provide technical revenue guidance and ensure proper systemic and manual revenue accounting. This is a highly visible and exciting role in the Finance controllership group in service to accurate revenue recognition and financial statements while supporting Company’s overall growth.
The ideal candidate will have the ability to collaborate and lead across multiple functions and roles, ability to translate technical literature and accounting/company policy into clear requirements for execution, strong change management skills, and ability to drive issues through to resolution .
Responsibilities:
Understand the end-to-end operational, financial, and systemic environment and key upstream and downstream processes that drive financial and customer impacts. Drive strategy to support revenue recognition, new offerings, and business changes.
Develop, maintain, and enforce the Company's revenue recognition policy under ASC 606, developing new positions and interpretations as needed. Stay connected to current business and offering strategies.
Perform technical accounting research.
Clearly articulate point of view regarding revenue issues. Use strong communication skills to inspire confidence in decisions and provide transparency as to status and trade-offs, with the ability to bridge between accounting, technical, and business mindsets with ease.
Establish and maintain controls necessary to ensure that revenue forecasts, deferred revenue balances, and revenue accounting execution are compliant with Company policy and GAAP.
Work comfortably with cross functional teams and actively consult with product management, sales, and marketing personnel to ensure revenue recognition timing and process implications are understood for each offering.
Ensure the proper accounting treatment for all product and service offerings is documented and that related accounts are properly prepared, reviewed, and substantiated.
Streamline systems and reporting tools to ensure efficient and accurate recording and classification of revenue.
Participate in revenue recognition due diligence activities related to potential acquisitions.
Qualifications:
Bachelors’ degree in Finance/Accounting with minimum of 7 years’ post-graduate experience, or equivalent work experience; CPA highly desirable.
Strong PC, worksheet, and word processing skills. Working knowledge of Oracle R12, Siebel/BRM, and Business Objects a plus.
Vaco provides expert consulting, permanent placement, executive search, and strategic staffing for companies around the world, in the areas of accounting, finance, operations, administration and more. As a premier talent solutions firm, Vaco connects people to their dream jobs and helps leading companies find talent to grow their business.
About the Company:
Publicly Traded SaaS Company
Title:
Lead Accountant/Associate Accounting Manager
Location : San Diego - Hybrid
Salary:
$125-145k + Bonus + RSUs
Description:
As an individual contributor, responsibilities include working with the business unit marketers, product managers, Finance, and IT teams to understand business strategy, systems roadmaps, and end-to-end offering requirements in order to provide technical revenue guidance and ensure proper systemic and manual revenue accounting. This is a highly visible and exciting role in the Finance controllership group in service to accurate revenue recognition and financial statements while supporting Company’s overall growth.
The ideal candidate will have the ability to collaborate and lead across multiple functions and roles, ability to translate technical literature and accounting/company policy into clear requirements for execution, strong change management skills, and ability to drive issues through to resolution .
Responsibilities:
Understand the end-to-end operational, financial, and systemic environment and key upstream and downstream processes that drive financial and customer impacts. Drive strategy to support revenue recognition, new offerings, and business changes.
Develop, maintain, and enforce the Company's revenue recognition policy under ASC 606, developing new positions and interpretations as needed. Stay connected to current business and offering strategies.
Perform technical accounting research.
Clearly articulate point of view regarding revenue issues. Use strong communication skills to inspire confidence in decisions and provide transparency as to status and trade-offs, with the ability to bridge between accounting, technical, and business mindsets with ease.
Establish and maintain controls necessary to ensure that revenue forecasts, deferred revenue balances, and revenue accounting execution are compliant with Company policy and GAAP.
Work comfortably with cross functional teams and actively consult with product management, sales, and marketing personnel to ensure revenue recognition timing and process implications are understood for each offering.
Ensure the proper accounting treatment for all product and service offerings is documented and that related accounts are properly prepared, reviewed, and substantiated.
Streamline systems and reporting tools to ensure efficient and accurate recording and classification of revenue.
Participate in revenue recognition due diligence activities related to potential acquisitions.
Qualifications:
Bachelors’ degree in Finance/Accounting with minimum of 7 years’ post-graduate experience, or equivalent work experience; CPA highly desirable.
Strong PC, worksheet, and word processing skills. Working knowledge of Oracle R12, Siebel/BRM, and Business Objects a plus.