Director of Revenue Accounting

Harness International Llp • San Francisco, CA

288d • $210,000 - $226,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers' pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace. Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We're backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

Requirements

• CPA (or equivalent).
• 10+ years of relevant revenue accounting experience, Big 4 audit and SaaS industry preferred.
• Prior management/leadership experience in building and developing accounting teams.
• In-depth knowledge of GAAP and ASC 606, with a strong focus on the SaaS industry.
• Experience with revenue accounting engines (e.g., Stripe) and ERP systems (NetSuite) and CRM systems (Salesforce).
• Experience in a public company environment or with the IPO process.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong ability to work cross-functionally and proactively identify accounting issues.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and manage competing priorities.
• Experience leading the month-end and quarter-end revenue close process.
• Proven ability to lead process improvements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be able to work in the office 3 days a week.
• Experience with audit processes and liaising with external auditors.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with GAAP and ASC 606 in all revenue accounting activities, particularly within a SaaS environment.
• Evaluate and document complex customer contracts to determine appropriate revenue recognition treatments.
• Assess accounting implications of new product offerings and pricing strategies.
• Maintain and consistently apply revenue accounting policies and processes.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing revenue accounting team.
• Lead collaboration with cross-functional partners such as Sales, Legal, IT Systems, Finance, and Product on contract reviews and strategic initiatives.
• Communicate accounting implications to stakeholders at all levels.
• Serve as a point of contact with external auditors.
• Streamline processes and controls of the entire Order-to-Cash process.
• Ensure accurate system configurations of revenue accounting modules within the ERP system (NetSuite, Salesforce, and Stripe preferred).
• Optimize revenue processes through automation.
• Lead month-end and quarter-end close activities, ensuring data accuracy across systems.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• Flexible work schedule.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave.
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events.
• Monthly internet reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree