Senior Accountant
Have you ever wondered what happens inside the cloud?
Based in New York, DigitalOcean is a dynamic, high-growth technology company that serves a robust and passionate community of developers around the world. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing for every developer. We are working on solving some of the most challenging and interesting technology projects around, on a scale unmatched by few companies.
The Finance team at DigitalOcean oversees the company’s financial well-being while supporting operational and business planning in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. We work hard to ensure we report our financial information in an accurate and timely manner.
We want people who are passionate, proactive and enjoy full ownership of some of the key processes in finance.
Reporting to the Accounting Manager, the Staff Accountant will initially own the end to end equity accounting function and build relationships with both internal customers (HR, Employees, etc.) and external vendors (Shareworks).
What You'll Be Doing:- Become the Company’s subject matter expert on ASC 718 Accounting for Share based payments
- Ensure the timely and accurate input of Employee share based awards into Shareworks the Company’s Equity Management System.
- Manage the roll-out of Shareworks to Employees.
- Work with HR and employees to ensure agreements are properly documented in a timely fashion.
- Account or the receipt of proceeds related to employees exercising options.
- Manage workflow related annual 409A valuations.
- Record monthly compensation expense related stock options.
- Assist in the preparation of annual and quarterly reporting related to equity.
- Assist the accounting team additional month-end close activities include the preparation of month-end reconciliations
- 2-4 years of Big 4 Public Accounting experience
- 1-2 years of Private company experience, managing accounting related processes.
- A Bachelor's degree in accounting, with CPA
- Skill in Microsoft Excel
- Exceptional work ethic, team mentality, positive attitude, and self-motivated
- Excellent verbal, written and problem solving skills skills
- Strong organization skills, process minded personality, attention to detail
- Intacct experience
- Prior Experience with Share based accounting
- Prior experience managing employee grants
- We have amazing people. We can promise you will work with some of the smartest and coolest people in the industry. We work hard but we always have fun doing it. Archery classes, DJ lessons, and office pie fights are a thing. We care deeply about each other and take our “no jerks” rule very seriously.
- We value development. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging ourselves to continuously grow. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development. You’ll need to be great to get hired here and we promise you’ll get even better.
- We care about you. We offer competitive health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents, a monthly gym reimbursement to keep you fit, and a monthly commute allowance to make your trips to and from work easier.
- We invest in your future. We offer competitive compensation and a 401k plan with up to a 4% employer match. We also provide all employees with Kindles and reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
- We want you to love where you work. We have a great office space located in the heart of SoHo NYC and offer daily catered lunches to keep your hunger at bay. We’re also very remote-friendly—we use Slack to communicate across the company—and all remote employees have the opportunity to take an all-expense-paid trip to our HQ to get quality in-person time with the team at least once a year. We also allow employees to customize their workstations to meet their needs—whether remote or in HQ.
- We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.