Senior Revenue Accountant, Alation
$97.8-132k
Office located in Redwood City, CA
Enterprise data intelligence solutions
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Enterprise data intelligence solutions
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$97.8-132k
Office located in Redwood City, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help businesses and institutions to get better value from their data, improving outreach and profit by combining human potential with modern data intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field
- 5+ years of experience required, at least 3 years in public accounting; Big 4 CPA is a plus
- Strong working knowledge of ASC 606 is required
- Experience with Professional Services or different revenue recognition patterns (Ratable, Percentage of Completion) is preferred
- Experience with multiple performance obligations and complex revenue transactions
- Excellent verbal and written communication and relationship-building skills to collaborate with team members at every level of the organization
- Strong attention to detail with excellent analytical skills using large data sets
- Strong organizational skills and ability to meet tight deadlines
- Advanced MS Excel skills and Google Sheets
- Ability to succeed in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
- Must be a self-motivated problem solver
- Must be able to work independently
- Motivation to implement process improvements that inspire change while embodying the company’s collaborative and inclusive culture
What the job involves
- The Senior Revenue Accountant will report to the Senior Revenue Accounting Manager
- This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing company and participate in building a best-in-class revenue team that is driving efficient and scalable processes
- Evaluate customer contracts to ensure that revenue is recognized accurately in accordance with ASC 606 and company policy
- Partner with cross-functional business partners such as sales, deals desk, sales operations, order management, legal, and IT teams
- Prepare revenue-related analyses and assessments such as contract combinations, material rights, contract modifications, standalone selling prices, professional services, and partner-related fees
- Perform monthly and quarter-end close revenue activities, such as preparing journal entries, reconciliations, flux analyses, related reporting and disclosures, and close slides for management review
- Help prepare supporting data and other requests for external auditors and business partners
- Participate in the re-implementation of Netsuite ARM
- Participate in developing, documenting, and maintaining strong internal controls over revenue transactions and reporting
- Assist in driving efforts to build best-in-class, automated processes related to the Order-to-Cash process
- Assist with whitepaper or accounting memos to support the company’s position or policy election on specific revenue recognition issues as needed
- Prepare ad-hoc accounting projects and analyses as needed
Our take
While companies continue to gather huge volumes of data on customer behavior, efforts in leveraging said data are often hindered by data access and interpretation, which ultimately leads to incomplete datasets.
Alation is a machine learning powered data catalog. It pulls together all a company’s key data from popular sources like Oracle, Spark and Tableau, and presents it on its platform. This means that users can search for multiple strands of data on just one API. Its services include data governance, digital transformation, and data discovery.
With both the data catalog and data analytics market growing rapidly at a 25% annual growth rate, Alation finds itself in a very strong position having shown triple digit growth for four years running. The platform is used for diverse purposes by Pfizer, FinnAir, Pepsico, Salesforce, American Express and BMW.
It’s this range of applicability, from weather-induced flight delay prediction to rare disease identification, that has led to investments resulting in a valuation of $1.7B. Though it's not the only company of its ilk on the market, with the likes of Informatica, Aginity and Alteryx all competing, Alation’s rapid year-on-year growth, solid investment from the likes of Japanese data communications leader NTT DOCOMO and an elite customer base bodes well for the company's future.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2022
$123m
SERIES E
Jun 2021
$110m
SERIES D
Total funding: $315m
Company benefits
- Health and Wellness: health insurance; dental insurance; vision insurance; life insurance; short-term disability; long-term disability; wellness program; FSA account; HSA account; fitness subsidies
- Vacation and Time Off: paid vacation; paid holidays; personal/sick days; maternity leave; leave of absence
- Financial and Retirement: 401(k); company equity; performance bonus
- Professional Development: promote from within; lunch and learns
- Office Life: flexible work hours; remote work opportunities; commuter benefits program; casual dress; happy hours; snacks; some meals provided; company outings
Company values
- Move the ball - We take small steps in the present to make it to the future we’re seeking
- Build for the long term - We plan to fulfill a bold, ambitious mission over decades to come
- Listen like you're wrong - Data and insight are most valuable when they surprise us and prove us wrong
- Measure through customer impact - We measure ourselves by the impact we achieve, not the benefits we receive
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
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Leadership
Satyen Sangani
(CEO)Having studied at Columbia, they worked at Morgan Stanley, Texas Pacific Group, and Andale, before an MSc at Oxford. They then worked as a VP at Oracle for over 9 years prior to co-founding Alation in July 2012.
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