Sr. Manager, Revenue Accounting

About Backblaze

Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands.

Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $140 million in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud - managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals.

About the Role

We are seeking a Sr. Manager of Revenue Accounting to own and lead the end-to-end revenue accounting function. This person will be a key partner to cross-functional stakeholders across Finance, Sales, Legal, Product, and Engineering and will be instrumental in ensuring revenue recognition policies and operations scale effectively with the business.

What You’ll Do

• Lead end-to-end revenue accounting operations, including but not limited to daily invoice/order approval, credit approval, revenue accounting memo drafting, and audit support.
• Ensure compliance with ASC 606 and U.S. GAAP for all revenue streams (subscription, consumption-based billing, and other business models).
• Policy Ownership: Maintain, update, and enforce the company’s global revenue recognition policies.
• Audit Management: Act as the primary point of contact for external auditors regarding revenue, deferred revenue, and standalone selling price (SSP) analyses.
• Close Management: Oversee the monthly, quarterly, and annual revenue close process, ensuring timely and accurate ledger entries, reconciliations, and disclosures.
• Reporting: Prepare revenue variance analysis, executive dashboards, and financial statement disclosures for leadership and board presentations.
• Forecasting Collaboration: Partner with FP&A to provide accurate data inputs for revenue and deferred revenue forecasting.
• Process Improvement: Design, establish and maintain scalable revenue processes and controls to support rapid growth and operational efficiency.
• System Ownership: Lead and support the implementation and optimization of revenue automation tools (e.g., Orb, NetSuite Advanced Revenue Management, etc.).
• Internal Controls: Design, implement, and maintain strong SOX compliance controls over the order-to-cash and revenue recognition cycles.
• Deal Desk Collaboration: Partner closely with Sales, Legal, and Sales Operations during contract negotiations to assess the accounting treatment and revenue impact before deals are finalized.
• Commission Plan Review & Alignment: Partner with Sales Operations and HR to review upcoming Sales Commission Plans. Ensure plans are structured for operational feasibility and evaluate their accounting impact under ASC 340-40 (deferred contract costs).
• Monthly Commission Calculation: Oversee the end-to-end monthly commission cycle. This includes calculating payouts based on sales performance metrics, maintaining commission schedules, and validating data accuracy across CRM and payroll systems.
• Amortization Management: Manage the capitalization and amortization schedules of sales commissions, aligning the expense recognition with the lifetime of the underlying customer contracts.
• Mentor and manage revenue accounting staff, ensuring alignment with business priorities and individual development goals.