Founded in 2009, SendGrid is an industry-disrupting, cloud-based email company that solves the challenges of reliably delivering emails on behalf of our customers.  We deliver over 35 billion emails a month for customers like Airbnb, Spotify, and Uber.

Based in Denver and reporting to the VP, Controller, the Director of Accounting will be joining SendGrid at a critical stage of the company’s growth.  As part of the Financial Operations team, this opportunity provides significant insight into the changes a company must embrace as it supports multiple areas of expansion. This is a great role for someone who is excited about contributing to the success of the team. You will be responsible for all core accounting areas as well as leading and developing the accounting team and driving process improvements.

What You’ll Do 

• Live by and champion our cultural values of Happy, Hungry, Honest, and Humble
• Provide leadership by managing deliverables, setting expectations, providing ongoing performance feedback, creating opportunities and developing quarterly goals for your team.
• Responsible for all aspects of accounting operations including procure to pay processes, order to cash, general ledger, and leases.
• Manage recognition of revenue for SaaS client base and non-recurring revenue streams, and associated commissions structures in accordance with current US GAAP.  Responsible for understanding the new revenue recognition standard and identifying, recommending and implementing best practices to support the change.
• Oversee billing operations, including invoicing and payment processing as well as credit and collections processes.
• Implement billing and payment processing in foreign currencies.
• Responsible for managing  all aspects of month-end close including journal entry approvals, balance sheet reconciliations review and management reporting.
• Lead and/or support external audits, including quarterly reviews, year-end financial audit, annual bank audit, and tax audits.
• Provide support for external financial reporting including preparation of footnote disclosures.
• Drive scalability.  Innovate and automate processes, assess opportunities for efficiencies, determine optimum staff utilization and augmentation.
• Work with sales team to streamline process between sales and accounting.
• Ensure appropriate internal controls necessary to support management’s certifications and assertions to investors.
• Support M&A activities including strategy, planning, diligence and integration
• Assist in management of treasury function as it relates to cash flow.
• We're an agile, fast growing company and this job description isn't meant to be a complete list of your qualifications or all of the things you'll do

About You 

• 12+ years of experience with a combination of public accounting and industry experience. 
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting and preferably an active CPA license. 
• Proven leadership and management skills.
• Demonstrated success in fast paced environment, examples of innovation and process enhancement. 
• Strong financial and accounting skills.
• Experience with international business.
• Strengths include organization, time management, and problem solving.
• Ability to effectively prioritize, make, and meet commitments, while working individually and in teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strategic - Provide proactive, meaningful insight & identification of long-term or overall aims and interests and the means of achieving them. Clear and directly face the strengths and weaknesses, as well as external opportunities and threats.
• Emotionally Intelligent - Recognize their own, and other people's emotions, to discriminate between different feelings and label them appropriately, and to use this to guide thinking and behavior.
• Decisive - Uses a framework or process by which to make decisions. At times, will need to make decisions quickly and often with incomplete data.
• Persuasive - Bring others to their point of view using logic, data, and emotion. Have a formal process and framework by which to make qualitative and quantitative points, not just using emotional appeals.
• Accountable - Being willing to answer for the outcomes resulting from their own choices, behaviors, and actions. Take ownership of situations that they're involved in.
• Self Motivated - Motivated to do or achieve something because of one's own enthusiasm or interest, without needing pressure from others.
• Focused - Achieve what they set out to do before launching new initiatives. Complete company-linked goals and tasks, not simply to be busy and active.
• Collaborative - A keen ability to support cross-functional projects and decisions. Gets energized from working within a team and cross-functionally to achieve the company's goals.

Bonus Points 

• SaaS experience highly preferred.
• Complicated revenue recognition preferred.

SendGrid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.