About the Job:
As a Senior Revenue Accountant at LaunchDarkly, you will play a critical role in ensuring that revenue is recognized accurately and in accordance with US GAAP and ASC 606, while leaning heavily into AI-driven automation to enhance process efficiency and scalability. You will own revenue-related tasks for month end close procedures and partner closely with cross functional teams (like Sales, Deal Desk, Legal) to review customer contracts and non-standard terms. You will also assist with external audits, preparing ad hoc analyses, and be a key point of contact for all revenue recognition activities. This role is ideal for a revenue accounting professional who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment where you can have a direct impact.
Responsibilities:
- Support the monthly revenue close process, including preparation of revenue-related journal entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules, to ensure timely and accurate revenue recognition
- Perform ASC 606 contract reviews for new and existing customer arrangements and document appropriate revenue recognition conclusions
- Evaluate complex or non-standard contract terms, including usage-based pricing, committed spend, minimum commitments, credits, discounts, contract modifications, renewals, and other commercial arrangements
- Maintain and reconcile revenue schedules across revenue, accounts receivable, deferred revenue, unbilled receivables, and customer credits
- Develop and maintain revenue accounting workbooks, rollforwards, and supporting documentation that provide clear audit trails from customer contracts and usage data through the general ledger
- Partner with Sales, Legal, Deal Desk, and Finance on new products, pricing models, contract structures, and commercial terms to identify potential accounting implications
- Support the accounting assessment and operationalization of new products and SKUs, including determining appropriate revenue recognition treatment, sales tax treatment, and ensuring required accounting data is captured
- Support external audits by preparing revenue schedules, contract samples, reconciliations, and responses to auditor inquiries
- Identify opportunities to improve and automate revenue accounting processes, controls, reconciliations, and reporting
- Partner with system administrators and cross-functional teams to improve the integration and data flow among CRM, billing, usage, and ERP systems
- Support development of scalable revenue accounting policies and procedures as the company and its product offerings evolve
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- 8+ years of relevant accounting experience, including meaningful experience with SaaS revenue recognition
- CPA or equivalent is a must
- Experience in public accounting is a must. Big 4 preferred.
- Strong working knowledge of US GAAP and ASC 606 and experience evaluating customer contracts and revenue arrangements.
- Experience with SaaS, cloud infrastructure, AI, technology, or other consumption-based business models strongly preferred
- Experience working with large datasets and reconciling information across multiple systems
- Experience with NetSuite, Salesforce or another major ERP and CRM systems preferred
- Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment where products, systems, and processes continue to evolve
- Strong communication skills and ability to translate technical accounting requirements into practical guidance for non-accounting stakeholders
About LaunchDarkly:
Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations.
The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by:
- Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages
- Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts
- Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize
- Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types
- Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability
At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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