Revenue Accountant, Life360
$95-105k
+ Equity, Salary dependant on location
Location sharing app for families
Job no longer available
Location sharing app for families
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$95-105k
+ Equity, Salary dependant on location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify safety, so families can live fully.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or relevant field
- 1+ years of experience in accounting with prior revenue accounting experience preferred
- CPA designation highly desirable
- Knowledge of accounting principles including ASC 606, audit requirements, and Sarbanes-Oxley
- Focus on quality with the ability to follow detailed procedures, create documentation of processes and maintain compliance with regulatory and other controls
- Experience with NetSuite preferred + strong analytical skills, including advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge
- Demonstrated ability to think outside the box and solve problems
- Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing to clearly explain complex concepts and issues
- Ability to excel in a fast growing/fast paced environment delivering accuracy while managing to deadlines where adaptability is imperative
- Ability to understand broader business, operational and financial issues
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational abilities to prioritize workload and manage a high volume of requests
- Ability to work collaboratively as a team member to build and nurture solid relationships with fellow teammates and cross-functional business partners
What the job involves
- The Life360 Revenue Team is looking to hire a Revenue Accountant to play a key role in the Accounting organization by supporting revenue growth
- In this role, you will partner with various teams to complete the month-end revenue process, improve revenue operations and learn complex revenue transactions that include multiple element revenue arrangements, direct to consumer and enterprise business revenue
- Reporting to the Revenue Manager, this role requires the candidate to have a fundamental understanding of revenue recognition guidance for subscription and hardware, and US GAAP
- This is an exciting opportunity to learn, build and influence revenue processes, and to continue to mature and enhance revenue analytics and insights for a public company
- Our team strives to build a collaborative environment where our team members can pursue their professional development and take ownership of their careers, while having access to support and mentorship
- The Revenue Accountant will be responsible for many elements of the revenue cycle and related controls including month end close activities that relate to manual and systematic recognition of revenue, deferred revenue, contra revenue, reconciliation, analytics and more
- This role will also be included in data and process enhancement projects and requires a project management mindset and ability to multitask and prioritize in order to be successful
- Record revenue in accordance with company policy and GAAP for various revenue streams and new offerings as applicable
- Work closely with management to ensure bookings are compliant with revenue recognition rules and SOX requirements
- Support the monthly close process by preparing journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and flux analysis. This includes but is not limited to, revenue, deferred revenue, contra, and cost of sale accounts
- Understand the fundamentals of revenue analysis and preparation of metrics to enhance performance insights; learn to identify trends and surface / solve for comparative period discrepancies (i.e. subscription analytics, GAAP vs non-GAAP reporting, etc.)
- Contribute to the development of new processes and system automation related to new product offerings to ensure scalable revenue processes
- Document processes for the various revenue streams and support an innovative environment that can scale as the business grows
- Work with cross-functional partners on an ongoing basis to support business processes as well as special projects
- Ensure compliance with company policies and SOX requirements; provide support for internal and external audits
- Learn to perform system data reviews for various existing and new revenue streams, investigate anomalies and action conclusions to help data enrichment processes
- Learn to proactively mine datasets and surface meaningful insights. Support cross-functional data enhancement projects and document plans and outcomes
- Contribute to implementation and enhancement of systematic processes and automation to support our scalability goals
Our take
Life360 is a platform for families that aims to bring them closer together by helping them better sync, communicate, and stay safe.
The business is particularly focused on enabling family members and friends to share their locations with one another. In addition, Life360 offers group messaging services, and also makes it possible for users to call for roadside assistance. The platform is focused on ensuring that both family members and friends can enhance their safety and connections with one another.
Customer service advisors are available on a real-time basis, while the developers of the app have also enhanced its privacy and security features recently. After an IPO in 2019, the company has received numerous awards and is recognized as a pioneer in its field, even piloting a new driving safety feature.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
34% employee growth in 12 months
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2018
$28m
SERIES D
Dec 2017
$18.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $117.3m
Company values
- Be a Good Person - We have a team of high integrity people you can trust that doesn’t tolerate jerks (even if they’re brilliant).
- Be Direct With Respect - We have a culture of radical candor that prevents company politics, passive aggressiveness, or being overly nice at the expense of performance and feedback.
- Members Over Metrics - We have a company that is known for an amazing customer experience and a culture of product excellence.
- High Intensity High Impact - We have a team of passionate, driven, ambitious people who work hard and are always challenging us to do better.
Company HQ
East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Chris Hulls
(CEO)Joined US Air Force aged 17. Attended UC Berkeley. Founded Life360 in 2008.
Alex Haro
(Board Member)Co-founded with Chris Hulls in 2008 - CTO until 2019. Founded mymoneykarma in January 2020.
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