Senior Technical Revenue Accountant

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The Senior Technical Revenue Accountant is a key member of the Revenue Accounting Team at Anaplan and will play a critical role in ensuring accurate revenue recognition, compliance with ASC 606, and improving internal processes to support scaling in the business. The Senior Technical Revenue Accountant will be responsible for reviewing subscription contracts and documenting any special terms that may impact revenue recognition, including technical analyses for any complex transactions that arise as a result of customer contracts. They will also be responsible for preparing monthly journal entries and reconciling revenue-related GL accounts. This is a high-impact role with significant exposure to different parts of the business and involves close cross-functional collaboration with teams in GTM, such as Deal Desk, Order Management, and Sales.

Your Impact

• Support processing and review of subscription contracts, billing, and revenue schedules within Workday. Evaluate and document the accounting treatment for non-standard revenue transactions.
• Support close process efforts, including necessary journal entries, analysis of accounts, reconciliations for revenue, deferred revenue and other related accounts and other financial reporting requirements.
• Understand and apply internal bookings policy to ACV/Net New ACV/Renewal ACV calculations and reporting.
• Develop a strong working knowledge of Anaplan’s ERP environment (Workday and Salesforce) and demonstrate the ability to troubleshoot issues and navigate systems independently.
• Review amendments to executed contracts to ensure compliance with company revenue recognition policy and serve as the final checkpoint before processing.
• Assist in identifying opportunities for revenue and quote to cash process efficiencies.
• Participate in revenue accounting and quote to cash cycle special projects.
• Maintain revenue policy, research, and prepare technical accounting memos as required.
• Implement and document processes and procedures for compliance purposes.
• Support cross-department efforts and build relationships with other teams including accounting, FP&A, sales, deal desk, and legal.
• Assist deal desk in determining revenue accounting impact of prospective deals.
• Assist with external audit requests for revenue and quote to cash cycle.
• Complete Anaplan training and assist in the improvement and development of internally used Anaplan models.

Your Qualifications

• 2 plus years of revenue recognition experience, preferably with Big 4 Public Accounting with in-depth knowledge of revenue recognition accounting standards, specifically ASC 606
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and organizational skills
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced, fast-growing company where adaptability is imperative
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate complex scenarios and topics to team and supervisors in a clear, logical manner
• Ability to research and apply applicable accounting guidance
• Experience with accounting process level or technical accounting documentation
• Experience with public SaaS revenue companies preferred
• CPA or equivalent is a plus
• Experience with Workday and Salesforce is a plus

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