Splunk Looking for Director Revenue Operations Finance at San Jose, CA, United States Full Time

Job Description

Join us as we pursue our exciting new vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we’re dedicated to our work, customers, having fun and most importantly to each other’s success.

Role

Splunk is seeking a dynamic leader for our revenue accounting team. The successful candidate for the Director of Revenue Operations will be responsible for leading a team of accounting professionals charged with owning the accounting processes for all revenue streams. Reporting to the Senior Director of Global Revenue, in this role you will partner closely with a large team of cross-functional business partners, and the broader finance team to develop scalable accounting and operations solutions to optimize our month end close process and all related activities. An independent and critical thinker, you enjoy gleaning insights and learning from data driven information, and you accept complexity and change. You have the highly developed ability to combine intuition for business and technical accounting experience to provide sound advice to leadership.
Responsibilities: I want and can do that!

• Lead and coach a team of revenue professionals that drive insights, the close process, and accounting processes, and who are responsible for key internal and external revenue reporting metrics
• Ensure revenue is recognized in accordance with US GAAP, and in particular, ASC 606
• Lead an accurate and timely month-end close process by driving solutions at scale that benefit cross-functional teams and our reporting goals
• Partner closely with the OTC Finance Transformation team to build efficiencies through elimination of legacy manual processes and implementing technological solutions
• Contribute to the development of accounting solutions for enterprise projects, new product offerings, and process simplification
• Ability to meet tight deadlines, work independently, prioritize competing workloads, and manage the deliverables from business partners and team members
• Strong attention to detail with excellent organizational and analytical skills
• Demonstrated ability to interact with and influence management and contributors at all levels of the organization and across functions

Requirements: I’ve already done that or have that!

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related field
• 12+ years of business experience including 8+ years of accounting experience in revenue or related area, in accordance with a SOX control framework
• Leadership experience managing a team and aligning project goals with organization and sponsor goals, leading through ambiguity, and changing direction of projects and strategies
• Experience in communicating with a broad team of professions to distill sophisticated concepts and analysis into concise and practical conclusions
• Acute business acumen and understanding of OTC issues and challenges

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, CPA, or advanced degree in Finance or Business Administration
• Big 4 accounting firm experience
• Relevant experience with large, fast-paced, multi-national public company
• Experience with SFDC, SAP and RevPro

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.