Director of Global Revenue Accounting (Hybrid)

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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 overall responsibility for the revenue accounting close cycle and compliance with U.S. GAAP for all contracts with customers globally as well as all other revenue financial reporting requirements for local jurisdictions. The Director, Revenue Accounting will oversee a current team of more than 4 professionals covering the Company’s revenue recognition processes and systems globally, with a focus on 3rd party reseller arrangements, as well as professional services and partnerships.

The role requires experience with complex revenue and commercial models for selling bundled hardware, software and services subscriptions as well as strong team leadership skills, specifically managing and building best-in-class teams, developing strong operating managers and fostering effective cross-functional relationships. You will thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, high growth environment. Additionally, the Director, Revenue Accounting will partner with non-finance related executives and managers within Sales to build and drive processes that satisfy customer expectations and create trust across Sales, Finance and Operations. Lastly, the Director, Revenue Accounting will partner with information technology and engineering teams to build and/or enhance integrations and processes across multiple systems to streamline and accelerate analytics and improve our control environment.

What You’ll Do
Location: Scottsdale, AZ or Seattle, WA or Boston, MA or Atlanta, GA or Sterling, VA
Reports to: VP, Revenue Accounting
Organization size: +/- 4

• Leads, coaches and develops the team responsible for complete and accurate revenue 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
• Proactively manages and communicates throughout the monthly and quarterly financial close process across all stakeholders, including Commercial Controllership, FP&A, SEC Reporting, Accounting Operations, Tax, Sales, Commercial Operations, Internal Audit, external auditors and executive leadership.
• Proactively manages internal stakeholder expectations through monitoring and reporting key metrics on the Revenue Accounting organization’s performance relative to quality, accuracy, and timeliness
• 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
• Conducts training of both the stakeholders affected by these processes as well as the professionals who perform quoting and order processing
• Partners with the information technology department to develop robust requirements for system enhancements, robust testing of all system changes before they go into production and proactive monitoring of system performance
• Partners with other functions to enable timely and accurate reporting on KPIs and metrics as well as informing insights on how the Company can improve performance relative to those 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

• 10+ years of experience leading revenue accounting teams in a dispersed work environment.
• CPA or equivalent, with deep understanding of ASC 606 and ability to research complex accounting matters.
• Global public company experience subject to SOX regulation, preferably with technology companies, operating across diverse regulatory frameworks, with sales and o