Sr. Technical Accountant (Remote)

About Neo4j:

Neo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden relationships and patterns across billions of data connections deeply, easily and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems. Over 75% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.

At Neo4j, we’re proud to be building the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers, helping them cure diseases, fight fraud, crush pandemics, and accomplish their most ambitious missions—even if it’s getting humans to Mars. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us @Neo4j.

  Our Vision: 

At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.  

As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.

Sr. Technical Accountant

at Neo4j 

 

Neo4j Background:

 

Gartner recently predicted that more than 80% of data innovations by 2025 will be powered by graph databases. Cloud computing powerhouses like Microsoft and Amazon have taken notice and begun investing in this technology in recent years. And no wonder, the market opportunity is staggering! The database market as a whole is $50B today and expected to reach $100B over the next 5 years and graph databases are situated to capture an enormous amount of that market. Graph databases are already the second most popular DB model in the world (behind traditional relational databases) and are rapidly growing in popularity.

 

Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph database in the world....

• Neo4j is one of the fastest scaling technology companies in this industry. Well over $150M ARR and still rapidly growing.
• Neo4j is currently valued at more than $2 billion. The Company has raised hundreds of millions in venture investment from Tier 1 investors in the US and Europe including Google Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Eurazeo, Fidelity, Greenbridge and One Peak.
• Neo4j’s financing round in 2021 continues to represent the single largest company investment in database history.
  
  

Role Summary:

We are seeking an accomplished Sr. Technical Accountant to join our finance team. The ideal candidate will play an integral part in the application of GAAP revenue recognition principles in a fast-paced environment. In addition, this candidate will assist the Company with interpreting accounting standards and the application across all aspects of the Company’s financial statements and work closely with outside technical accounting and tax advisors. You must have strong analytical skills and be a collaborative team player who is willing to roll up your sleeves.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Audit customer contracts to verify transactions have been accurately recorded in the Company’s ERP system in accordance with ASC 606 revenue recognition requirements of the software industry.
• Provide guidance to the sales organization regarding structuring customer contracts in the best manner possible to optimize bookings and revenue. 
• Advise revenue operations and product teams about the potential accounting implications associated with changes in how the company sells and prices its products and services. Propose solutions that balance the business need with revenue recognition and accounting operations efficiency considerations. 
• Interpret new accounting standards impacting the Company and document the adoption method in technical accounting memos. Document new accounting processes and procedures. 
• Maintain the Company’s existing technical accounting, process and procedure policies. Existing technical accounting policies include ASC 606 revenue recognition, ASC 340 incentive compensation, capitalized software development, stock compensation, lease accounting and fair value of financial instruments. 
• Assist in preparation of the annual financial statements and related footnote disclosures
• Support the 409(a) valuation process
• Global sales tax compliance assessments
• Participate in process improvement and ad hoc proje