Responsible for all financial accounting and reporting related to revenue, overseeing month-end processes, audit requirements, and revenue forecasting while ensuring operational efficiency.
About Us
Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform. Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other every day and state-sponsored cybercrimes. The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). 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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Ready to Join Us?
At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.
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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If you choose to explore an opportunity, and subsequently share your CV or other personal details with Sophos, these details will be held by Sophos for 12 months in accordance with our Privacy Policy and used by our recruitment team to contact you regarding this or other relevant opportunities at Sophos. If you would like Sophos to delete or update your details at any time, please follow the steps set out in the Privacy Policy describing your individual rights. For more information on Sophos’ data protection practices, please consult our Privacy Policy Cybersecurity as a Service Delivered | Sophos
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