Senior Director, Revenue Accounting and Operations

<div class="content-intro"><p>From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Fivetran is seeking a seasoned leader with extensive SaaS revenue experience to lead our global Revenue Accounting Operations function. In this key leadership role, and in close partnership with other leadership members across RevOps, Deal Desk, Legal, Sales and Finance teams, you will be responsible for supporting Fivetran’s strong revenue growth by building and maintaining scalable and efficient Order-To-Cash processes, policies, systems and controls. You will oversee customer contract reviews, revenue recognition assessments, revenue accounting, billing, accounts receivable and revenue operations. You are the in-house subject matter expert and therefore are expected to support, educate, communicate and report on revenue accounting guidance, technical and operational policies and company GAAP revenue performance, all while maintaining a customer (internal and external) centric mindset. </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This is a full-time position based out of our <span class="emphasis">Oakland, CA office. Our hybrid work model offers a blend of remote flexibility and in-person collaboration, including two days in the office each week to connect and build as a team.</span></span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What You’ll Do</span></strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hire, coach and mentor a high-performing Revenue Accounting Operations team. </span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Craft and execute upon the strategy, vision and plan for the Revenue Accounting Operations function, taking into consideration revenue accounting processes, SOX controls, technical accounting, operations, systems/automation, policies, reporting, and collaboration with cross-functional partners.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Oversee and lead the global revenue financial close processes including the review and approval of revenue recognition journal entries, review and recording of revenue from non-standard contracts, SOX controls compliance, reconciliations, fluctuation analyses, financial reporting and more. </span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Design and distribute detailed revenue reporting, to include BvAs, trend and variance analyses and key metrics. Automate revenue reporting using BI tools, Looker or similar.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Maintain an ongoing partnership with FPA to ensure revenue forecasting for existing and future revenue streams is consistent with US GAAP revenue recognition standards; advise FPA timely on revenue transactions impacting forecasts, BvAs and related. </span></p> </li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Build and maintain the appropriate cross-functional partnerships (Legal, Deal Desk, Sales), processes, controls and related infrastructure to ensure all customer contracts are appropriately reviewed, executed and recorded timely and accurately within all relevant systems (SFDC, NetSuite); maintain additional processes and controls as necessary for the review, execution and recording of non-standard customer contracts and new product offerings.</span></p ... (truncated, view full listing at source)