Senior Revenue Accountant

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx, Guardant360 TissueNext™, Guardant360 Response™, and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal™ for early-stage cancer patients. These tests fuel development of its screening program, which aims to address the needs of asymptomatic individuals eligible for cancer screening.

Job Description

The Senior Revenue Accountant serves as a teammate in a world-class finance team in a rapid growth environment. The finance team serves as trusted advisors for all our strategic and enterprise endeavors and works closely with business partners on a daily basis. The Role has ownership of all accounting aspects of revenue recognition and must understand, analyze and communicate financial impacts to revenue throughout the organization. This position has a critical and highly visible role in the process design, implementation, documentation and accurate recording of revenue

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with Sales, Project Management team, and Business Development team to track projects progress, document cost change and perform revenue recognition.
• Work with the FP&A team to provide revenue assurance in the pricing models and new product introductions.
• Be part of month-end and quarter-end revenue close.
• Monitor key accounting estimates for revenue recognition.
• Maintain revenue schedule, deferred revenue schedule and other SEC reporting documentations 
• Help prepare data and other support information requests as needed for audits and reviews conducted by external auditors.
• Participate in developing and maintaining strong internal controls, ensuring quality controls over revenue transactions and reporting.
• Assist with implementation and testing of new programs, streamline processes, and upgrades, as necessary.
• Complete special projects as required.

Qualifications

• 5-6 years in revenue recognition required
• In-depth knowledge of revenue recognition guidance under ASC606
• In-depth knowledge and hands on experience working with GAAP multi-element revenue recognition accounting standards, preferably in the software industry

You are a self-starter, work well as a team player, but can work independently when appropriate. You possess the ability to analyze problems and actively strategize to resolve them, pay attention to detail, and have excellent organization and communication skills. You are results oriented with an appetite to drive tasks to completion. In a rapidly growing company, you can juggle multiple tasks, work cross-functionally and at all levels of the organization, whether internally or externally. You are flexible and comfortable in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. You can prioritize and focus on the important tasks, not just the urgent ones.

You bring excellent interpersonal skills to the role: communication, empathy and relationship building. In addition, you have strong written capabilities, analytic skills, and good attention to detail.

Having fun at work is also important to us, and we like our colleagues to have passion, humor and to enjoy life.

Education/Experience/Licenses/Certifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field, CPA Preferred.

Technology/Equipment Skills:

Microsoft Office, Outlook, Word, and Advanced Excel Skills, ERP system experience (Preferably Oracle)

Additional Information

Hybrid Work Model: At Guardant Health, we have defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant, our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.

Covid Vaccination Policy:  Starting January 7, 2022, Guardant Health will require all employees to be fully vaccinated to either (a) establish that they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19; or (b) request and obtain an approved exemption from Guardant’s COVID-19 U.S. Vaccination Policy as a reasonable accommodation, as consistent with applicable laws.  An employee is considered fully vaccinated against COVID-19 two weeks after receiving the second dose of a two-dose vaccine or one dose of a single-dose vaccination. Acceptable vaccines are approved or under emergency use authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and/or the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, fully-vaccinated employees will be required to maintain their fully-vaccinated status under this policy by obtaining, if applicable, any FDA-approved boosters.

Employee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment. Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however, there may be exposure to high noise levels, fumes, and biohazard material in the laboratory environment. Ability to sit for extended periods of time.

Guardant Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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