Senior Director, Revenue Accounting

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.

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Senior Director, Revenue Accounting

Reporting to the VP, Corporate Controller, the Senior Director, Revenue Accounting will be responsible for overseeing the processes for the order to cash cycle, including billing and revenue accounting departments. The role will be instrumental in partnering across the business, optimizing cash flows, and scaling processes and systems to support revenue growth. This person must be comfortable in a high growth environment, and an agile problem solver who is analytical and detail-oriented. The candidate will also possess strong management and team leadership competencies gained through prior experience leading a revenue team, including through process transformations. This will be a critical role in ensuring we continue building a world-class function while working cross-functionally to ensure our systems and processes are running smoothly.

What You'll Do:

• Manage the execution of global revenue and accounts receivable including the month-end close process and disclosures
• Ensure compliance of revenue contracts with applicable policies 
• Support timely and accurate billing and collections processes
• Monitor, analyze, and report on KPIs 
• Drive process improvement and automation efforts 
• Maintain effective internal controls in respective processes
• Team leadership through managing talent including motivating, coaching, and mentoring team members
• Partner cross functionally with FP&A, sales, deal desk, legal, customer success, business systems, treasury, and tax teams
• Work with the external auditors during reviews and audits 

What We're Looking For: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Business 
• CPA or equivalent required
• 12+ years of experience 
• Mix of public accounting and industry experience
• Strong knowledge of ASC 606 including consumption based revenue and internal controls
• Experience with Netsuite, Salesforce, Aria, Zendesk and/or Tesorio
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal, able to communicate complex concepts and risk factors to stakeholders and influence decision making  
• Experienced business partner, skilled in building trust and inspiring others

Work Hours: 

• This position will require you to be available during core business hours. 

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements: 

This position is open to the following preferred office locations:

• San Francisco, CA
• Denver, CO

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. 

Salary: 

The estimated salary range for this position is $194,040 to $285,350.

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits: 

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings? 

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), an open vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2023, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days. 

 

Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do o