Manager, Revenue Accounting
At a glance
Manager-level Accounting role at Datadog. New York · full-time · $118,000–$157,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Run the monthly revenue close, checking the team’s journal entries, account reconciliations and supporting schedules
- Lead and develop revenue accountants by setting priorities, reviewing their work and building team capability
- Resolve complex ASC 606 questions, including unusual contracts, variable consideration and remaining performance obligation disclosures
- Oversee revenue and order-to-cash controls, audit work, and improvements to billing and related systems
- Work with partner teams on unusual deals and billing escalations, and prepare revenue metrics and analysis for finance leaders
What you bring
- At least seven years of progressively responsible accounting work, including two or more years managing and developing people
- An accounting bachelor’s degree and strong command of ASC 606, including usage-based and multi-element SaaS contracts
- Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain accounting conclusions to senior leaders
- A track record of influencing other teams and moving shared work forward
Who this fits
This manager role suits an accounting leader who can guide a team while staying hands-on with revenue close, technical accounting and process improvements. The position is based in New York. Public-company or Big Four experience is preferred, and a CPA is a bonus.
From the employer
About Datadog:
Datadog is the world-class monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. We’re dedicated to creating, developing, and supporting our product and customers, allowing for seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops and Security teams globally. Built by engineers, for engineers, our SaaS product is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stack. Given the resilience of cloud technologies and importance placed today in digital operations and agility, Datadog continues to innovate and is well positioned for the long term.
The Team:
Datadog's Finance team collaborates with teams across the organization, providing commercial, operational, and analytical support to ensure that Datadog's business continues to grow as rapidly and efficiently as possible.
The Opportunity:
We are seeking a Manager, Revenue Accounting to join our growing Finance team at Datadog. This role owns the revenue close and technical revenue accounting for a high-growth, usage-based business, manages and develops a team of revenue accountants, and partners cross-functionally to scale our order-to-cash and billing processes as the Company grows.
You Will:
- Own the monthly revenue close, including review and approval of journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and supporting schedules prepared by the team.
- Manage, coach, and develop a team of revenue accountants — set priorities, review work product, and build bench strength as the team scales.
- Own technical revenue conclusions under ASC 606, including review of memos for complex and non-standard arrangements, variable consideration, and RPO disclosures.
- Own the design, documentation, and operation of SOX controls across revenue and order-to-cash, and drive remediation where gaps are identified.
- Partner with Deal Desk, Legal, Sales Systems, Order Operations, and Customer Success on non-standard deal structures ahead of signature, and on escalated customer billing matters.
- Lead process and systems improvements across the order-to-cash cycle, partnering with Financial Systems on NetSuite and Salesforce enhancements and billing automation.
- Own the revenue workstream for the annual audit and quarterly reviews, including walkthroughs, PBCs, and technical discussions with our auditors.
- Prepare and review key internal revenue metrics, flux analysis, and commentary for finance leadership.
- Lead ad-hoc projects and analyses as they arise.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 2+ years directly managing and developing people; public company and/or Big 4 experience preferred;
- BS/BA degree in Accounting
- Deep working knowledge of ASC 606, including application to usage-based and multi-element SaaS arrangements
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present conclusions to senior leadership
- Proven ability to influence and drive outcomes across cross-functional teams
- Hands-on, comfortable with ambiguity, and motivated to improve existing processes
Bonus Points:
- CPA
- Usage-based or consumption billing experience at scale
- Experience owning SOX controls in a revenue environment
- Experience working with NetSuite and/or Salesforce
- Experience with Snowflake, SQL, or Tableau
*Datadog is an affirmative action employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Datadog is the essential monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers’ entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.
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Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:$118,000—$157,000 USDAbout Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
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