Revenue Accounting Manager
Honeycomb.io
Remote
United States
$140,000 - $160,000 USD yearly
Remote Accounting
What We’re Building
Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022 and 2023!
If you want to see what we’ve been up to, please check out these blog posts and Honeycomb.io press releases.
Who We Are
We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We have conviction and we strive to live our values every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers.
How We Work
We are a remote-first company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1. #LI-Remote
Little more about the team:
Honeycomb is seeking a detail-oriented and analytical Revenue Accounting Manager to join our Finance team. The Revenue Accounting Manager will play a critical role in ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our revenue recognition processes. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of accounting principles, excellent communication skills, and drive for continuous improvement and scalability. Our team is small, but mighty and often praised for our impact and efficiency despite our size. We have grown from a team of three to a team of ten in just three years and expect continued growth in the following years.
What You’ll Do:
- Own key areas of the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close process—including revenue and commissions accounting—by preparing journal entries, performing key account reconciliations, and ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting in accordance with US GAAP
- Maintaining the accuracy and reliability of the Zuora Revenue system
- Review standard and non-standard contracts to determine the appropriate revenue recognition under U.S. GAAP, ensuring the company is compliant with revenue recognition principles under ASC 606
- Work cross functionally within the organization to drive automation efforts to streamline accounting operations related to revenue accounting and improve the quality of monthly, quarterly, and annual closes
- Assist in the order to cash process, reviewing submitted sales orders in CPQ to ensure proper revenue recognition and compliance
- Work directly with our sales, customer success, and revenue operations team to obtain needed data and reporting to support monthly revenue entries
- Act as point of contact in all sales tax and VAT tax related issues, including nexus research, registering in new jurisdictions, and determining taxability for new products
- Ability to provide clear concise answers related to accounting variances and fluctuations to management, FP&A and other internal stakeholders
- Play a key role throughout the company audit, preparing & reviewing revenue and commission related schedules for external auditors
- Identify opportunities for operational efficiencies and lead the implementation of process improvements to standardize and streamline accounting workflows
- Support IPO readiness initiatives by assisting with the implementation of public company processes and enhancing internal controls
- Perform SSP analysis utilizing historical sales data and pricing variability assessments to support revenue allocation across software subscriptions, services, and additional products
- Ad hoc initiatives and projects, including system implementations, automation, and ad-hoc financial analyses
What You’ll Bring:
- BS in Finance or Accounting
- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Deep expertise of GAAP, ASC 606 revenue recognition, ASC 340, and other authoritative guidance
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and work on multiple tasks at once
- Strong time management and organizational skills
- Results focused while ensuring weekly/monthly billing deadlines are met
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, specifically Excel
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to interact and build relationships across all levels of the organization
- Revenue recognition experience with consumption-based models including usage tracking
- Systems experience with Zuora, Netsuite, Avalara, Stripe, and Salesforce
Pluses, but not required
- CPA with Big 4 experience
- Experience in SaaS and/or a start up environment
- Experience with multi-subsidiaries and global accounting
- Systems implementation project management
Base Salary based on level of experience
$140,000 - $160,000 USD
What you'll get when you join the Hive:
- A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
- It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience
- Time to recharge - Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical
- A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)
- Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
- 100% employee/75% for dependents coverage for all benefits
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
- Annual development allowance
- And much more...
Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time. Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work.
Diversity & Accommodations:
We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace—where people of all backgrounds, identities, experiences, and abilities are welcomed, valued, and supported. We recognize that there is no single path to success and embrace nontraditional career journeys and diverse perspectives as key to building stronger, more innovative teams.
We strive to ensure an inclusive experience throughout every stage of our hiring process and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations as needed. If you require accommodations or accessible formats at any point during our hiring process, please let your recruiter know.
As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work. If there’s anything we can do to improve your experience, we’re always open to feedback.
Privacy Notice:
If you apply for a job at Honeycomb and your application is unsuccessful (or you withdraw from the process or decline our offer), Honeycomb will retain your information after your application for a period of time in accordance with local laws. We retain this information for various reasons, including in case we face a legal challenge in respect of a recruitment decision, to consider you for other current or future jobs at Honeycomb, and to help us better understand, analyze and improve our recruitment processes.
For more information regarding our privacy practices please see the Honeycomb Privacy Notice.
If you do not want us to retain your information for consideration for other roles, or want us to update it, please contact privacy@honeycomb.io. Please note, however, that we may retain some information if required by law or as necessary to protect ourselves from legal claims.