The Accounting Manager is a broad-based accounting position in a rapidly growing technology company. Areas of involvement include, but are not limited to, the global period close function, application of accounting policies/procedures in accordance with US GAAP, financial reporting and analysis, expenditure and revenue analysis, and assisting with corporate transactions, integrations and project-related efforts. This role reports to the Corporate Controller and manages a team of 1 (potentially 2).

Essential Functions:

• Management and oversight of one Staff Accountant, Sales contract review, Community Payments;
• Review the work of the immediate team for completeness, quality, accuracy
• Coach and mentor direct staff to develop a best-in-class accounting department
• Partner with the sales organization to review and approve contracts, sales order approval
• Review and manage subscription and consumption revenue
• Manager customer billing, cash receipts and collections
• Make sure services are available in the companies internal platform for customer testing
• Other duties as assigned

Timely and accurate closing/reporting of company’s financial systems for all domestic and international subsidiaries;

• Meet targets for monthly close deadlines through pro-active coordination with accounting personnel and resources outside the accounting department
• Conduct account analysis and prepare monthly account reconciliations
  • Prepare and maintain clear, thoughtful documentation in support of conclusions reached
  • Prepare and record monthly journal entries resulting from account analysis and reconciliations
  • Maintain meaningful and concise documentation supporting disposition of journal entries
  • Provide International support where required for an accurate and complete Global consolidation

Maintain and Support Systems, Controls and Processes;

• Involving Global chart of accounts, customer and vendor master aligning with reporting and analysis requirements
• Ensure compliance with processes/procedures including proper recording of cost/revenue consistent with US GAAP
• Provide feedback on and assist with application of Companies policies and procedures
• Utilize systems to streamline team processes for analysis and reporting to satisfy management and audit deliverables
• Responsible for fixed asset module and management of Meta and Google invoicing

Management of accounting analysis and reporting to meet various stakeholder needs;

• Proactively research, understand and communicate activity in support of management’s review of the financial statements as well as other financial analysis and reporting
• Perform detailed analysis of P&L and accrual accounts to ensure complete/accurate recording of costs
• Implement reporting capabilities to assist with quarterly and annual reporting narratives

Other projects deemed as necessary and assigned such as;

• Revenue Reporting and monthly testing
• Sales Tax, Tax provision support and analysis to outside consultants and other filings
• Act as backup for commissions as required

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance is required
• Working knowledge of US GAAP
• Minimum of eight to twelve years relevant work experience
• Experience working in a high-technology publicly or private company a plus
• Ability to think, act and work independently, high attention to detail and strong problem solving skills
• Ability to organize, prioritize and multi-task, takes ownership of tasks, sees them through to completion
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, able to communicate with colleagues and management
• NetSuite experience preferred but not mandatory
• Possesses strong systems/process knowledge with ERP implementation experience

What Makes Applause a Great Place to Work

Applause is a world leader in digital quality testing. Since 2007, Applause has been the driving force in testing and digital quality innovation. Our expertise continues to help leading brands deliver quality digital products to their customers. Utilizing the skills of 1.5+ million testers in more than 200 countries and territories, Applause helps the world’s leading brands to deliver quality digital products and experiences to their customers on a global scale. With insightful, actionable testing results that can directly inform go/no go release decisions, we enable our customers to release digital products and experiences better, faster and with confidence. 

At Applause, living our core values - In it Together, Be Accountable, Create Value for Our Customers, Celebrate Authenticity, and Crush Your Goals - informs our choices as individuals, as teammates and in our everyday interactions with customers. Our values help to keep us on track to deliver the best outcomes, and to be the very best team we can. Embracing a culture of respect, authenticity and inclusion, we value and celebrate diversity.  Together as one Applause Nation, we strive to enable professional opportunities for all employees.

Please visit https://www.applause.com/life-at-applause to learn more about the employee experience at Applause Nation!

Applause is a place where everyone belongs and where we believe everyone deserves the exceptional. Since our founding, we have continued to celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment.  If you believe you require a reasonable accommodation under any of the legally protected characteristics, please click here to complete an accommodation request. Please note Applause will only review requests for applications that have been submitted. We will review your qualifications and follow up with you regarding your request if your qualifications meet our current needs.

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