Accounting Manager - Revenue & Capitalized Costs

About Watershed Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, FedEx, Visa, and Dr. Martens use Watershed to manage climate and ESG data, produce audit-ready metrics for voluntary and regulatory reporting including CSRD, and drive real decarbonization. We are looking for team members who love product-building, want to work hard at a mission-oriented startup, and will collaborate with us in shaping the culture of a growing team. We have offices in San Francisco, New York, Denver, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, Mexico City, and remote team members across the US and Europe. We hope that you'll be interested in joining us! The role We are looking for a sharp, operationally-minded Accounting Manager to own the day-to-day execution across three core pillars of our financial landscape: Revenue Accounting (ASC 606), Internally Developed Software / IDS (ASC 350-40), and Capitalized Commissions (ASC 340-40). In this role, you will be the operational engine connecting technical accounting policies to daily GL execution. While our Technical Accounting Team sets our overarching GAAP policies, operational know-how is essential in this role to translate those conclusions into daily billing, close execution, systems, and controls. You will play a key role in establishing a clean, standardized baseline by helping formalize early-stage workflows into scalable close procedures, reconciliations, and reviewer-ready evidence We are on a mission to modernize and automate routine accounting workflows. You will partner with our team to evaluate, implement, and operationalize modern contract ingestion tools and AI workflows to eliminate manual mechanics, allowing you to focus on key accounting judgments and complex deal structure. You will work closely with our AR team, Deal Desk, and Technical Accounting ****to ensure our financial reporting is accurate, scalable, and audit-ready. What you will do 1. Process Standardization, Systems & Audit Readin