Sr Manager, Revenue Order Management and Technical Accounting - Remote

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Varian’s Revenue Order Management and Technical Accounting department is a dynamic and forward-thinking organization, dedicated to achieving excellence in financial operations. Join us in creating a future where financial operations are a source of strength and innovation. In Varian order management and revenue recognition is centralized, so all orders are booked by a central team and the revenue is recorded by a central team.

Role Overview

As a Revenue Recognition Senior Manager at Varian, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the integrity and efficiency of our financial operations, by leading a global team of 6 members. Your responsibilities include, but not limited to,

• Implementing, governing, and safeguarding Varian controls.
• Evaluating actions required for compliance with the company’s revenue recognition accounting standards (IFRS 15).
• Integrating, standardizing, and continuously enhancing reporting processes related to Order Intake, Revenue, and backlog globally with the use of digitalization tools.
• Regular and ad-hoc analysis ensuring order reporting accuracy and compliant revenue recognition.
• Analysis of contractual terms or other customer facing formal agreements to identify potential accounting impacts including the evaluation of new business models.
• Completes all required month-end close activities including revenue reconciliation and management reporting.
• Partners with regional finance, legal, sales, and strategic marketing personnel in varying aspects including contract structures, new product introductions, and alignment & adherence to company policies and collaboratively resolving any revenue issues.
• Follows control procedures and interacts with internal and external audit or other functions in the calculation and approval of standalone selling prices.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Driving Excellence: Lead the charge in improving, harmonizing, standardizing, and ensuring compliance and accuracy in key accounting processes globally.
• People Management: Engage, inspire and provide strong development support for the direct team according to their knowledge and skills.
• Championing Innovation: Drive the implementation of new processes, best practices and changes globally in order management and backlog reporting. Digitalize.
• Guiding the Way: As a key working partner of business teams & other finance teams (including Strategic Marketing – product commercialization, Sales, IT and Finance), to provide accounting guidance in terms of revenue recognition for new deals/new business models/new business projects. Partnering with the regional teams, to define & perform necessary before- and-after- fact reviews & checks to ensure the revenue booking quality
• Expert Counsel: To monitor the IFRS (SHS FRG) updates & changes in terms of revenue recognition and ensure the regional teams are well communicated and trained as needed
• Ensuring Accuracy: Manage and operate controls over world-wide order booking and review process as well as order and revenue backlog reporting, initiate corrections with local accounting teams, and prepare related documentation.
• Precision Review: To be responsible for contract and order reviews
• Data Insight: Prepare and review regular and ad-hoc financial analysis and reports.
• Audit Excellence: Ensure local revenue recognition policies and procedures are consistent with the Varian global standards; Global owner of Revenue Recognition, to ensure the control documents are refreshed & updated, and support the audits as well as external audits as needed

Core Requirements

• Seasoned Expertise: A minimum of 12 years of experience in accounting and finance, with hands-on experience in Revenue Recognition.
• Educational Foundation: A degree in accounting or finance.
• Language Mastery: Fluent in English, both written and oral.
• Software Proficiency: Experienced in applicat