Staff Accountant

About the Role

Tailscale is growing, and we’re looking for a detail-oriented, operationally minded, and collaborative Staff Accountant to join our Finance & Accounting team. In this role, you’ll support core accounting operations across order-to-cash, accounts receivable, billing, and the monthly close, while owning select day-to-day accounting processes. You’ll work closely with the broader Accounting team to help ensure transactions are processed accurately, issues are resolved quickly, and our financial operations continue to scale effectively as the business grows.

You’ll partner closely with Sales, Deal Desk, Customer Success, Legal, and other members of Finance to help ensure deals are structured and processed accurately from contract review through billing and accounting. You’ll also contribute to monthly and quarterly close activities, account reconciliations, revenue-related processes, and other operational accounting initiatives.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of critical day-to-day accounting processes while helping us continue to build scalable, well-controlled financial operations for a fast-growing SaaS business.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the order-to-cash process from deal approval through invoicing, collections, and accounting. Review order forms and commercial terms, including payment terms, billing frequency, credits, discounts, and other non-standard terms, and partner closely with Sales, Deal Desk, Customer Success, Legal, and Finance to resolve issues that could impact contract execution, billing, collections, or accounting treatment.
• Support recurring invoicing and billing activities, including month-end and quarter-end billing, renewals, usage-based charges, and customer adjustments.
• Support monthly and quarterly close activities, including journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and balance sheet support.
• Monitor accounts receivable, support collections, investigate aging balances, and help resolve customer billing and payment disputes.
• Support revenue-related accounting processes and maintain sufficient documentation to support revenue recognition under ASC 606.
• Support employee expense reimbursement operations, including review, processing, policy compliance, and issue resolution as needed.
• Identify and implement process improvements across Deal Desk, billing, collections, expense reimbursements, and close activities.

What We Are Looking For

• 3+ years of progressive accounting experience, preferably in a high-growth SaaS or technology environment.
• Strong accounting foundation with experience supporting monthly and quarterly close processes, reconciliations, journal entries, and accruals.
• Experience with order-to-cash processes, including customer contracts, invoicing, accounts receivable, collections, and billing operations.
• Working knowledge of ASC 606 and an understanding of how commercial terms can impact billing and revenue recognition.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with Sales, Deal Desk, Customer Success, Legal, or similar teams.
• Experience with ERP, CRM, billing, and expense management systems; familiarity with NetSuite, Salesforce, Stripe, DealHub, Ramp, or similar platforms is a plus.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, with the ability to manage recurring responsibilities alongside close deadlines.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA or progress toward CPA certification is a plus.

As a company, we strive to maintain fair and equitable compensation practices within our team across all roles and all levels. Tailscale's compensation package includes base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits. The salary range displayed on each job posting represents the target range for a new hire's base salary. Individual offers may vary based on experience and skill set.