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Revenue Accountant

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on revenue recognition assurance activities at Riverbed, ensuring compliance with accounting standards. You will work closely with customer contracts and provide guidance on revenue allocation, while also managing a direct report and collaborating with external auditors.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor degree in Accounting.
  • 6 or more years in accounting/finance roles, including experience in revenue recognition.
  • General understanding of revenue recognition guidance (ASC 606).
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
  • Preferred: Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation

Responsibilities

  • Review customer arrangements for proper revenue recognition in accordance with company policy and accounting standards.
  • Guide the business on deal structuring by reviewing draft contracts.
  • Provide support in determining proper accounting for products and services, including new introductions.
  • Manage one direct report and collaborate with external auditors.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Analytical Skills
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Communication
  • Teamwork
  • Detail Oriented

About the company

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Riverbed Technology

  • Software / SaaS
  • Large
  • 1,001–5,000
Riverbed is the only company with the collective richness of telemetry from network to app to end user that illuminates and then accelerates every interaction so that users get the flawless digital experience they expect across the entire digital ecosystem. Riverbed provides two industry-leading solutions: the Riverbed Unified Observability portfolio, which integrates data, insights, and actions across IT to enable customers to deliver seamless digital experiences; and Riverbed Acceleration, which offers fast, agile, and secure acceleration of any application over any network to users, whether they are mobile, remote, or on-premises. Together with our thousands of partners, and market-leading customers across the world, we empower every click, every digital experience. Riverbed. Empower the Experience.

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Job description

Riverbed. Empower the Experience:

Riverbed, the leader in AIOps for observability, helps organizations optimize their users’ experiences by leveraging AI automation for the prevention, identification, and resolution of IT issues. With over 20 years of experience in data collection and AI and machine learning, Riverbed’s open and AI-powered observability platform and solutions optimize digital experiences and greatly improve IT efficiency. Riverbed also offers industry-leading Acceleration solutions that provide fast, agile, secure acceleration of any app, over any network, to users anywhere. Together with our thousands of market-leading customers globally – including 95% of the FORTUNE 100 – we are empowering next-generation digital experiences. Learn more at riverbed.com

Position:

Title: Revenue Manager

Location:  Home/Remote NC, Northern VA, Texas

Riverbed is seeking a Revenue Manager who will perform revenue recognition assurance activities including application of ASC606 to arrangements.  This role will review customer contracts and deals and will apply the existing revenue recognition review process.

What you will do:
  • Review customer arrangements for proper revenue recognition in accordance with company policy and revenue recognition accounting standards and summarize customer agreements with non-standard terms impacting revenue recognition.
  • Review draft contracts and guide the business on deal structuring
  • Provide guidance on allocated revenue on certain transactions
  • Provide support and assistance in determining proper accounting for products and services including new introductions
  • Manage 1 direct report
  • Work closely with external auditors
  • Review journal entries to ensure appropriate revenue treatment.
  • Review various analyses to support the Company’s compliance with revenue recognition guidance.
  • Participate in or manage ad-hoc projects
  • Other duties as required
What makes you an ideal candidate:
  • Bachelor degree, Accounting
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation preferred
  • 6 or more years in accounting/finance roles including in high-technology industry on revenue recognition (with recent public accounting experience)
  • General understanding of revenue recognition guidance (ASC 606)
  • Excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills are required for frequent interaction with financial and non-financial management
  • Ability to work at a detailed level and also to interact effectively with all levels within the organization
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
  • NetSuite / ARM experience
  • SFDC experience
  • Ability to work autonomously as well as in a team setting
  • Concern for quality and deadlines
  • A highly productive self-starter with very strong work ethic and commitment to excellence
  • Strong accountability and detail oriented; prepares accurate and timely work products
What we offer:

Our employee benefits including flexible workplace policies, employee resource groups, learning and development resources, career progression pathways, and community engagement initiatives are some of the reasons why we have had great success in bringing in new talent. In addition, our global employee wellness programs are crafted to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of our employees.  

Benefits & Perks vary by Country. 

About Riverbed:

With a 20-year history of innovation, Riverbed is agile and proven—and we continue to disrupt the market with differentiated solutions that help customers deliver secure, seamless digital experiences and accelerate enterprise performance. We are relentlessly customer-first: we listen, learn, and act with urgency to solve real problems and earn trust every day. We pair bold ideas with operational efficiency, simplifying how we work, focusing on what matters most, and delivering with quality and speed. Fueled by a will to win, we set ambitious goals, hold ourselves accountable, and raise the bar through measurable outcomes. At the center of it all are our people—bringing our best selves to work with a shared commitment to excellence, transparency, and open communication. We strive to be an inclusive, fair, and enjoyable workplace where respect and wellbeing are prioritized. We are committed to our people, partners, and customers while supporting the communities where we work and live. It’s the Power of WE that binds us together and drives high-impact success.

Riverbed is an equal employment opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) employer and provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or child birth (including breast feeding), sexual orientation, genetics, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other basis protected by and in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

Check us out on:
www.riverbed.com
@LifeAtRiverbed

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