Digital and Data Accounting Manager

Jacobs; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 99,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Stock purchase plan

Deferred compensation

Unlimited PPTO

7 holidays

Performance bonus

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Digital and Data Accounting Manager to oversee the general ledger and project accounting for SaaS and consulting revenue under ASC 606, and to manage software capitalization under ASC 350-40. The role partners with Poland-based teams, Streetlight leadership, and Private Markets to ensure accurate financial reporting and audit readiness.

Responsibilities include leading GL close, revenue recognition, tax compliance, and capitalization processes, while driving reconciliation

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in finance, accounting, economics or business administration.
• 8+ years progressive accounting experience including GL, revenue accounting, project accounting and financial reporting.
• Strong technical accounting expertise with hands-on responsibility for GL, revenue recognition, reconciliations and reporting.
• Direct SaaS accounting experience including subscription revenue and ASC 606 compliance.
• Hands-on Sage Intacct experience managing accounting operations and reporting.
• Experience with software capitalization accounting under ASC 350-40.
• Proven ability to lead accounting processes in a complex, multi-location environment.
• SaaS sales tax knowledge and compliance.
• Consulting experience highly valued.

Responsibilities

• Own integrity of the general ledger, including journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations across the GL team.
• Lead month-end and quarter-end close; ensure milestones are met and TB upload on day 3.
• Reconcile and support Poland team to maintain reconciliation discipline.
• Create monthly reports for DaaS and Streetlight initiatives.
• Lead project accounting for consulting revenue and SaaS recognition under ASC 606.
• Coordinate with SaaS revenue process for subscription and contract balances.
• Oversee project setup, cost capture, and margin accuracy.

Skills

General Ledger

Revenue recognition

SaaS accounting

ASC 606

Sage Intacct

Software capitalization

Consulting experience

Tax compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or Business Administration

Tools

Sage Intacct

Job description

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

The Digital and Data Accounting Manager is a liaison between the Poland-based General Ledger and Project Accounting teams, Streetlight leadership teams, D&D Private Markets and Water and D&D controller. This role owns the integrity of the general ledger, the accuracy of project-level accounting across both subscription and consulting revenue streams under ASC 606, and the software capitalization process under ASC 350-40. The role supports financial reporting that feeds SEC filings and executive reporting, so accuracy, documentation, and audit-readiness are non-negotiable.

Key Responsibilities

General Ledger Oversight

• Own the integrity of the general ledger, including the accuracy and timeliness of journal entries, accruals, and account reconciliations across the GL team.
• Manage the month-end and quarter-end close, ensuring close milestones are met, reconciling items are cleared on schedule, and TB upload happens on day 3.
• Recreate all of the reconciliations and assist Poland team on maintaining the reconciliation discipline going forward.
• Create monthly royalties and other internal reports needed to report DaaS and other Streetlight initiatives.

Project Accounting Oversight

• Lead project accounting for the consulting portfolio, including revenue recognition under ASC 606 and unbilled and deferred balances. Assist PA teams on maintaining the integrity of recognition rules with SaaS industry.
• Coordinate with the SaaS revenue process to ensure subscription revenue, deferred revenue, and contract balances are accurately stated. Establish and own the IWA process, currently in development.
• Oversee project setup, cost capture, and margin accuracy at the engagement level.

Compliance and Other

• Maintain sales tax (Wayfair Ruling) compliance with outside tax consultants as well as internal Jacobs sales tax team. Assist other Jacobs entities in being compliant, i.e. expansion of UK Water portfolio into the States
• Maintain Avalara relationship
• Maintain Canada sales tax compliance.
• Manage state registrations and work with Jacobs sales tax team to ensure compliance on state level.
• Calculation of monthly and quarterly commissions, maintaining prepaid reconciliation and integrity of ASC606 rules.
• Software Capitalization (ASC 350-40)
• Execute the capitalization process for internal-use and internally developed software, including identification of qualifying application-development-stage costs, capitalization cutoffs, and the start of amortization at go-live
• Partner with engineering, product and services teams to capture project hours and cost inputs and to assess cloud computing arrangement implementation costs under ASU 2018-15
• Prepare a monthly reconciliation and maintain capitalization schedules, amortization, and impairment indicators with supporting documentation sufficient for external audit. Work with internal Streetlight product and engineering teams to enable more precise and sophisticated time tracking related to development and capitalization.
• Partner with Fixed Assets to evaluate D&D's software capitalization practices against Jacobs policy, determine whether current treatment reflects a supportable accounting distinction (ASC 350-40 vs. ASC 985-20) or a process deviation and remediate if the latter.

Team Efforts

• Partner the Poland GL and Project Accounting teams across time zones to maintain close-cycle continuity and improve processes continually
• Coordinating with StreetLight Sales Ops on contract structuring, payment terms (to optimize DSO), and sales tax implications to prevent close-cycle disruptions from unresolved sales-side issues
• Assist the D&D Controller to establish SaaS revenue recognition and compliance processes supporting new SaaS market expansion within the U.S. within Private Markets and Water, including sales tax compliance, nexus studies, revenue recognition, contract structure and systems setup.

Here's what you'll need

• Bachelors Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or Business Administration
• 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, including General Ledger, revenue accounting, project accounting, and financial reporting responsibilities.
• Strong technical accounting expertise with hands-on responsibility for GL, revenue recognition, reconciliations, and financial reporting
• Direct SaaS accounting experience, including subscription revenue and ASC 606 compliance
• Hands-on Sage Intacct experience managing accounting operations and reporting
• Experience with software capitalization accounting under ASC 350-40
• Proven ability to lead accounting processes in a complex, multi-location environment.
• SaaS sales tax knowledge and compliance
• Consulting experience

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Employees have access to medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance, a 401(k) plan, and the ability to purchase company stock at a discount. Eligible employees may also enroll in a deferred compensation plan or the Executive Deferral Plan. Jacobs has an unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) policy for full-time salaried/exempt employees, seven paid holidays, and caregiver leave. And certain roles may be eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, performance discretionary bonus, and stock.

The base salary range for this position is $98,900.00 to $154,550.00. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

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