Technical Revenue Accounting Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Oversee technical revenue accounting evaluations for designated business lines, products, and transactions.

• Collaborate with teams from Business Development, Product, Sales, Legal, Finance, and operational accounting.

• Analyze proposed contract terms and product offerings while clarifying their accounting and financial statement impacts.

• Conduct research and assess intricate or atypical arrangements under ASC 606 and relevant US GAAP.

• Provide guidance on merchant incentives and rebates, revenue assurances, material rights, promotional initiatives, contract adjustments, and principal versus agent considerations.

• Examine proposed contracts, deal frameworks, and product offerings, and assess alternatives.

• Draft technical accounting memorandums and position papers that detail facts, guidelines, judgments, and conclusions.

• Evaluate accounting policies and practices in acquired companies and assist in aligning them with DoorDash’s standards.

• Convert accounting conclusions into billing, revenue recognition, financial reporting, and control requirements.

• Create and sustain revenue accounting policies, guidelines, and training resources.

• Enhance contract review procedures and associated controls.

• Assist with external audits and quarterly and annual financial reporting.

• Lead projects autonomously, manage competing priorities, communicate timelines, and escalate significant accounting concerns.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related discipline.

• Over 6 years of pertinent accounting experience, including substantial application of ASC 606 to complex revenue arrangements.

• Comprehensive understanding of US GAAP.

• Ability to research unfamiliar accounting matters, exercise sound judgment, and form well-supported conclusions.

• Experience in reviewing commercial contracts and recognizing accounting implications of non-standard terms.

• Skill in preparing clear and persuasive technical accounting memorandums and position papers.

• Experience in supporting external audits and engaging in technical accounting discussions with auditors.

• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

• Capability to elucidate complex accounting issues to non-accounting stakeholders.

• Ability to work independently, handle multiple projects, and collaborate effectively across functions in a dynamic environment.

• Relevant experience in public accounting, technical accounting in industry, or a blend of both.

• CPA, ACA, ACCA, or an equivalent professional accounting qualification is preferred.

• Preferably experience in Big 4 public accounting.

• Preferably experienced with technology, marketplace, e-commerce, SaaS, or platform-based ventures.

• Preferably experienced in supporting post-acquisition integration and aligning accounting policies.

• Preferably familiar with SOX requirements, internal controls over financial reporting, and accounting process design.

• Preferably experienced in translating technical accounting conclusions into operational processes and system requirements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity grants

• 401(k) plan with employer matching

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave

• Wellness benefits

• Commuter benefits match

• Paid time off

• Paid sick leave

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits

• 11 paid holidays

• Disability insurance

• Basic life insurance

• Family-forming assistance

• Mental health program

• Flexible paid time off/vacation for salaried roles

• 80 hours of paid sick time per year for salaried roles

• Wellness expense reimbursement

• Premium healthcare