Digital and Data Accounting Manager Job Washington area,District of Columbia USA,Accounting

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Capabilities Accounting and Finance Office Setup Hybrid

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.
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 ASC
606 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 Street Light 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…