Senior Manager, Revenue Accounting

Uber Uber · Consumer · Dallas, TX +1 · Finance & Accounting

This role is for a Senior Accounting Manager at Uber, focusing on revenue accounting and reporting for global business lines. The responsibilities include overseeing revenue recognition, ensuring financial statement integrity, driving automation and process improvements, managing month-end close, SOX compliance, and partnering with various functions on accounting policies and complex transactions. The role requires strong leadership, project management, and analytical skills, with a background in progressive accounting experience and dedicated revenue accounting at a public company.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the functional team to ensure effective day to day operations, month-end close processes, SOX compliance; provide adequate support for internal and external financial reporting & audit, and other ad hoc requests.
  2. Oversee accounting policies, process and control designs and execution, be able to identify risks, gaps and improvement needs, propose & align improvement ideas, lead implementation efforts from the beginning to end. Create and Lead enhancement projects aimed at increasing efficiency, scalability, and automation.
  3. Excellent leadership, organization and project management skills with collaborative working style and ability to work cross functionally to set reasonable project plans, monitor status, remove roadblocks, reach alignment and drive projects through the finish line.
  4. Partner with Technical Accounting, Legal, Treasury, Tax, Business Development, M&A, Strategic Finance and other relevant functions to ensure understanding of complex transactions and conclude on proper accounting treatments that are both technically correct and operationally practicable.
  5. Support and influence various business partners by providing technical and operational accounting guidance to drive informed decision making, and more efficient and effective business processes.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of progressive experience in accounting
  • 3+ years in a dedicated Revenue Accounting role at a public company
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or relevant field
  • CPA and/or Master’s is preferred
  • Experience with Oracle or another large scale ERP
  • Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
  • The ability to juggle multiple projects simultaneously in an exciting, fast-paced environment
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • highly collaborative with business leaders and cross-functional partners
  • strong ability to build relationships, gain credibility, and partner with others
  • Self-motivation with a strong affinity for vision setting, strategic problem solving, and driving action
  • Inquisitiveness, along with the ability to spot issues, get to the heart of a matter, and articulate plans to address them
  • Excellent business judgment
  • great communication skills
  • Embody the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and accountability

What the JD emphasized

  • revenue recognition
  • financial statements
  • automation
  • process improvements
  • SOX compliance
  • public company