Responsibilities
Octave is seeking a Revenue Recignition Specialist/Financial Analyst to perform the following responsibilities:
· Perform financial risk assessments for public safety and geospatial contracts, on-premise and SaaS, ensuring compliance with IFRS and US GAAP revenue recognition.
· Assess fixed-price, T&M, and multiyear contracts. Review contracts across sales cycles—from RFPs to final offers and SOWs. Evaluate pricing, terms, and documents (contracts, pricing matrices, BOMs, ROMs, quotes) to identify risks and ensure consistent revenue treatment.
· Review quotes and proposals to ensure compliance with corporate standards and authority limits, appropriate pricing, positive cash flows, favorable terms, continuous revenue recognition, and generally protecting the organization’s profitability.
· Offer financial risk mitigation strategies to sales, bids and proposals, project accounting, and FP&A, advising on Statement of Work assumptions, payment milestones, andacc eptance criteria. Leverage detailed pricing analyses to support negotiations and ensure financially sound customer agreements.
· Drive strategic and ad hoc reporting on topics such as recurring revenue, cost trends, discount structures, system discrepancies, cloud expenses, payment milestones, and customer rates. Analyze unbilled revenue, software financing, and product metrics like project materiality, SSP, escalations, credits, and financial risks. Provide insights to support decisions and new initiatives.
· Be experienced in, or willing to learn IFRS and GAAP revenue recognition standards to be able to document policy updates, identify and justify revenue recognition methods, provide written explanations and training to sales, etc.
· Develop and maintain revenue recognition policy documentation, including memos on discount allocations, principal vs. agent roles, and project methodologies for ASC 606 compliance and audit readiness.
Education / Qualifications
· Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
· Excellent oral and written communication skills
· Strong, demonstrated leadership skills
· Highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Outlook and Excel
· Experience in Salesforce a plus
· Experience in software related industry a plus
· Experience with or knowledge of software revenue recognition accounting and IFRS a plus
· Ability to work both independently and in a team
· Ability to multi-task and handle several priorities simultaneously
· Desire to succeed in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment
· Ability to work in office at least 2 days a week – this is a hybrid position.
About Octave
Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle — Design, Build, Operate and Protect — where performance, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable and failure is not an option.
Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real-world conditions and enterprise-scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most.
Why work for Octave?
Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle — Design, Build, Operate and Protect — where performance, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable and failure is not an option.
Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real-world conditions and enterprise-scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most.
Everyone is welcome
At Octave, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Here, everyone is welcome. As an inclusive workplace, we don't discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all.
Respect is the cornerstone of how we operate, so speak up and be yourself. You're valued here.