Cloud Revenue Accounting Lead
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountant (CA).
- 7 years of experience in accounting or a related function, or 5 years with an advanced degree in accounting, business, or finance.
- 7 years of experience in public accounting, finance, project management, or high-tech organizations.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in business recognition, with the knowledge of operational execution of accounting for agreement in the technology industry.
- Ability to have a collaborative style, attention to detail and work with cross-functional and international teams.
- Ability to lead projects and remove roadblocks.
- Ability to work independently to grow in operational executions.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with executive management and cross-functional business partners.
About the job
Google accountants are a savvy bunch who handle the core accounting responsibilities at Google. You know your accounting principles and the full accounting process end to end. You'll advise on financial reports required by governmental regulations, and review, analyze, and interpret financial and budgetary reports. Every day is a new challenge, and you're continually looking for ways to help our team become more efficient and effective. A team player at heart, you collaborate with our global team, advocate best practices and pitch in where needed. You move fast while keeping your attention to detail, and you tap into your problem-solving skills to support business objectives.
You'll lead an accounting process from end-to-end. Other responsibilities include reconciling balance sheets and P&L accounts, and providing supplementary financial information for internal and external reports.
In this role, you will advise on financial and accounting matters and review, analyze, and interpret data for accounting and reporting. You will collaborate with our global team, advocate best practices and be ready to pitch in when needed. You will move fast while keeping your attention to detail, and tap into problem-solving skills to support Google's business objectives.
The name Google came from "googol," a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. And nobody at Google loves big numbers like the Finance team when providing in depth analysis on all manner of strategic decisions across Google products. From developing forward-thinking analysis to generating management reports to scaling our automated financial processes, the Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the business.
Responsibilities
- Understand the accounting and operational flow of business transactions from Order to Cash to be able to envision, design and support reporting of business, including the external disclosures of remaining performance obligations under ASC 606.
- Manage the execution of key processes in the accounting subscription and consumption based business streams, including performing data analysis, calculations, booking entries and account reconciliations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional business partners across the process to define and establish scalable processes to address financial reporting needs and lead continuous process improvement and automation for business accounting and reporting of remaining performance obligations.
- Manage data consistency across various systems and be responsible for related IPE testings.
- Understand processing of transactions to gather support for audit requests. Drive process and system enhancements while maintaining efficient financial close processes and Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) controls.
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