Director of Accounting

Director of Accounting

Observe is a SaaS Observability product that enables businesses to investigate modern distributed applications 10x faster. Observe ingests anything with a timestamp (e.g. system and application logs, metrics, and traces), and then structures that data so that it is correlated and easy to navigate. We enable engineers to spend more time coding features and less time investigating incidents. Finally, because of Observe’s unique elastic architecture, it is priced based on usage, making it cost 10x less than incumbents. Watch this video to learn more about our mission.

Traditional approaches to this problem have resulted in fragmented tooling and fragile dashboards which, in turn, have resulted in exploding costs and complexity. At Observe, we believe that the core challenge lies in organizing and relating telemetry data emitted by those applications, despite the fact it is constantly changing. Solving this data problem makes observability an order of magnitude easier, faster, and less expensive. At Observe, we didn’t set out to build another monitoring tool company, we set out to build a data company. Observe is founded by top enterprise VC Sutter Hill Ventures and has a founding team from leading Enterprise SaaS companies Snowflake, Splunk, and Wavefront.

What you have the opportunity to accomplish:

- Set a vision; lead and build the foundation of the accounting function

- Properly build out the accounting/tax side of the organization and processes around monthly accounting/reporting, revenue recognition, AR and write-offs, payroll, treasury, 1099, tax, state registrations, AP, procurement, annual audit, treasury, etc. 

- Lead and evolve our ERP strategy on Netsuite and implement additional systems as necessary

- Lead Observe’s efforts to get ready for it’s first financial audit and oversee the audit process

- Ensure accounting policies comply with U.S. GAAP. Inherit a high performing team with room to hire

- Oversee investor reporting and equity admin

You'll be successful in this role if you have:

- 12+ years experience working in finance and accounting

- Technical accounting experience including in ASC 606, 842 & 718

- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a similar field

- 5+ years public accounting experience highly preferred

- Experience in startup environment a plus

- Hands-on experience building and running major financial process cycles

- Deep experience with SaaS implementations for accounting processes

- CPA

What We Like:

- A passion for developing process and people

- Hands-on, get it done approach

- Flexibility in a fast paced startup environment