Manager, Revenue Accounting

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Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

Your Impact

You will have responsibility for overseeing the accounting of revenue from customers, including ownership of 3rd party vendor cost of goods and services sold to customers. You will also be responsible for the accounting of professional services to our customers, including determination of timing of recognition and presentation. This includes ownership of the overall close cycle, controls, reporting, and compliance with U.S. GAAP. The Manager, Revenue Accounting will oversee a current, though growing, team of one professional covering the Company’s third-party cost of goods and services and professional services processes.

The role requires experience with revenue and commercial models for selling bundled hardware, software and services subscriptions as well as strong team leadership skills, specifically managing and building a best-in-class team, and fostering effective cross-functional relationships. You will thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, high growth environment. Additionally, the Manager, Revenue Accounting will partner with non-finance related executives and managers within Operations to build and drive processes that satisfy internal expectations and data reporting.

What You’ll Do
Location: Axon US Hub Site (Atlanta, Boston, DC, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle), 2 days in-office per week
Reports to: Sr. Manager, Revenue Accounting

• Leads, coaches and develops the team responsible for complete and accurate third-party and internal COGS recognition utilizing RevStream, Salesforce, Dynamics 365 and adjacent systems
• Partners closely with Sales, Commercial Controllership, Commercial Operations and FP&A to ensure precise, accurate, complete and timely reporting of revenue and cost of goods and services
• You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Finance and Operations to ensure accurate cost tracking and reporting.
• You will support all internal and external audit activities, including SOX Compliance.
• Develops a deep understanding of the Company’s lead-to-cash cycle, with a particular focus on how quoting through revenue recognition is affected by upstream processes and data and how they affect downstream processes and data to optimize overall customer and Company outcomes
• Utilizes deep understanding of the Company’s quoting, ordering and revenue recognition systems and processes to draft, implement and execute policies and procedures to facilitate an effective and efficient revenue close cycle
• Partners with other functions to enable timely and accurate reporting on KPIs and metrics
• Proactively identifies opportunities to improve processes, systems, and productivity to enable the Company to continue to scale as it grows both in existing markets and in new markets across both domestic and global geographies and customer segments

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience in revenue accounting, with 2+ years of direct people management.
• CPA or equivalent preferred, with deep understanding of ASC 606 and ASC 340 and ability to research complex accounting matters.
• Public company experience subject to SOX regulation, preferably with technology companies.
• Strong attention to detail, a commitment to high quality, results driven, effective time management and customer focus.
• History of successfully implementing and continuing to enhance new operational technologies and solutions to enable scaling in a rapidly growing global business.
• Proven ability to thoughtfully identify opportunities to improve the financial close process including quality, efficiency, and timeliness.
• Ability to problem solve day-to-day issues that affect multiple stakeholders including  cross-functional team members.
• Superior intellect with the ability to think critically and make clear and well-reasoned decisions complemented by a sense of passion about the role, company, potential for growth and most importantly the people.
• Excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills for frequent interaction with financial and non-financial management

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