Technical Revenue Accounting Senior Manager

Role Description

Atlassian is seeking a Technical Revenue Accounting Senior Manager to join our Revenue Accounting Team. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role, where you will get to partner with leaders across GTM, Monetization, Sales, Legal, Engineering teams to support Atlassian’s growth objectives. You will provide technical accounting expertise on ASC 606 to business stakeholders on a variety of areas including new product initiatives, Channel incentive programs, and other strategic revenue initiatives. You will also be responsible for crafting roadmaps and solutions, in conjunction with Engineering, Sales, and Product management orgs, to scale Atlassian’s enterprise order-to-cash process.

You’re a great fit for this role if your background is primarily in the Software / SaaS industry, you have a deep understanding of the revenue recognition guidance (ASC 606) and experience researching and concluding on highly judgmental areas of accounting. You’re a strong communicator who is able to build relationships and work effectively at every level within an organization. This role will report directly into the Head of Revenue Accounting, whom is invested in the continued development of the team and your career.

In this role, you'll get to:

• Partner closely with Product, Sales, and Engineering teams to deliver go-to-market strategies, and address related accounting impacts.
• Leverage your technical expertise to proactively provide desirable revenue accounting results and revenue recognition policy guidance on our most complex accounting programs and/or transactions to business partners.
• Bring your experience with large scale enterprise software revenue models, identify and lead the implementation of process improvements to scale up Atlassian’s Enterprise order to cash accounting process. Leverage technology to automate and streamline revenue accounting processes.
• Act as the subject matter expert for the Revenue Team over our revenue module (RevPro), including managing data integrity, configuring system logic, and resolving revenue data discrepancies.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to revenue recognition and reporting.
• Support external audits and provide audit-ready and SOX compliant documentation.
• Maintain and improve internal controls over revenue processes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of revenue experience with a combination of public accounting and industry experiences, particularly with Enterprise/SaaS revenue teams at scale.
• Deep understanding of ASC 606 and experience with RevPro (essential) and ERP systems like Oracle.
• Excellent research abilities, strong technical writing skills, and experience/aptitude in various challenging revenue recognition topics.
• Demonstrated experience thinking strategically about issues, leading to recommendations and action plans.
• Excellent interpersonal skills (oral and written) and the ability to communicate effectively with all levels at the company.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills. SQL knowledge is a plus.
• BA/BS degree in Accounting. CPA or equivalent is preferred, but not required. Experience with a Big-4 accounting firm is strongly preferred.

Requirements

• This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Benefits

• Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community.
• Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more.