Responsible for all financial accounting and reporting related to revenue, overseeing month-end processes, audit requirements, and revenue forecasting while ensuring operational efficiency.
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Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.
Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.
Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
This role is responsible for all financial accounting, close processes and reporting in relation to the Revenue function. This role will be reporting to the Senior Director, Revenue Operations.
What You Will Do
- Responsible for month-end ledger close processes in respect of key areas of Revenue responsibility, including:
- Key journal postings
- GL reconciliations
- Monitoring close of Bookings and ensuring all transactions are captured correctly in relevant systems
- Ad-hoc month end processes to ensure Revenue is complete and accurate
- Key revenue variance analysis to provide insight
- Responsible for managing and delivering audit requirements, including all audit requests linked to Revenue
- Supporting controls-based audits by ensuring control procedures are up to date with relevant documented evidence
- Responsible for contributing to key reporting, including Flash, Monthly, Statutory Accounts and other Compliance related reporting
- Working with the FP&A team to provide inputs for Revenue forecasting where required
- Reviewing and improving current processes to gain efficiencies and improve insight
- Running system closure processes for key areas of responsibility
What You Will Bring
- Qualified accountant with at least 3 years post qualification experience
- Exposure to IFRS and, ideally USGAAP revenue accounting standards
- Strong background in month-end close procedures including journals, analysis and reconciliations
- Experience with Revenue systems and ERP
- Strong MS Excel skills with PBI exposure an advantage
- Strong analytical skills to support audit and reporting
- Strong accounting background
- Proven experience in month-end close procedures
- Excellent communication skills at all level
- PowerBI and dashboard reporting
- Salesforce experience
- Zuora Revenue experience
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What's Great About Sophos?
· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.
· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
Our Commitment To You
We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.
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