Revenue Accounting Manager | United States | Remote
Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana Cloud, the fully managed observability platform trusted by more than 10,000 organizations to ensure reliability, resolve incidents faster, and optimize telemetry at scale. Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data, wherever it lives, and move at the speed of their ambitions. Customers, including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce, rely on Grafana Labs. We are a 100% remote company with team members across 40+ countries, backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.
You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.
The Opportunity
We’re looking for an experienced and detail-oriented Revenue Accounting Manager to join our Finance Team! Reporting to the Director of Accounting (Revenue & Technical Accounting), you will play a key role in ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant revenue recognition for Grafana Labs, drive month-end close excellence, strengthen internal controls , and partner cross-functionally across RevOps, Deal Desk, Billing, Legal, Finance & Strategy, and Audit teams. This is an individual contributor position.
Our ideal candidate is a strategic, detail oriented revenue accounting professional with deep ASC 606 expertise and hands on experience with quote-to-cash processes in a SaaS or cloud consumption-based environment. They apply sound technical judgment to complex contracts, partner credibly with Sales, Legal and Deal Desk, and have a track record of building scalable, controlled and automated revenue processes.
What You'll Be Doing
- Ensure proper application of ASC 606 to customer contracts, including subscription, usage-based and committed-spend arrangements, as well as variable consideration, multi-element deals, and contract modifications.
- Review non-standard contract terms and prepare technical accounting analyses and documentation that are well supported, audit ready and practical to execute.
- Identify and implement opportunities to use automation, AI and other tools to streamline revenue processes.
- Perform and review monthly accounting close activities and deliverables for revenue (i.e. journal entries, account reconciliations, revenue estimate calculations, month-end analytics).
- Translate ASC 606 conclusions into system configuration, and manage and enhance revenue automation, including NetSuite ARM, to improve accuracy, scalability and efficiency.
- Execute and continuously improve month-end close accuracy and timeliness.
- Support the financial reporting process by preparing quality and audit-ready supporting schedules.
- Collaborate with Sales, Legal, DealOps and Billing to evaluate deal structures and resolve revenue-impacting terms before booking.
- Assist with assessing the revenue implications of new products, pricing changes and go-to-market models, and help set accounting positions and policy.
- Design, maintain and test SOX compliant internal controls over revenue, and identify opportunities to strengthen them.
- Be a key partner for external auditors, providing audit ready documentation and support for quarterly and annual reviews.
- Use SQL, Python or advanced Excel to analyze large data sets, find root causes and surface trends in revenue, billings and deferred revenue.
What Makes You a Great Fit
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA preferred.