The GitLab Finance Department includes multiple Teams: Accounting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Tax and Business Operations Programs.
Signature Authorization Matrix
#finance
chat channel in Slack for questions that don't seem appropriate for the issue tracker or internal email correspondence.#accountspayable
or #expense-reporting-inquiries
chat channels. Invoices that require payment processing should be sent to ap@gitlab.com.For commonly requested company information, please visit our wiki page.
Login information for the following accounts can be found in the Secretarial vault on 1Password:
If you need this information but cannot find it in your shared vaults, check with the People Connect Team members to get access.
A fiscal year is a one-year period that corporations use for accounting and budgeting. GitLab's Fiscal Year runs from February 1 to January 31.
Fiscal Year | Calendar Year |
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FY24-Q1 | 2023-02-01 to 2023-04-30 |
FY24-Q2 | 2023-05-01 to 2023-07-31 |
FY24-Q3 | 2023-08-01 to 2023-10-31 |
FY24-Q4 | 2023-11-01 to 2024-01-31 |
Refer to our writing style guidelines for proper use of date formats.
Vendor invoices are to be sent to ap@gitlab.com and payroll@gitlab.com for contractors. An invoice template can be found in Google Docs by the name of "Invoice Template".
Non-US contractors not from Hungary, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, Switzerland, and Ukraine will get pay their monthly wages and expenses through iiPay. Here is the process:
Non-US contractors from Italy, Nigeria, South Africa, Switzerland, and Ukraine will need to send their monthly invoice for salary/bonus/commission and any expenses by the 15th to payroll@gitlab.com.
In many cases, VAT will not be payable on transactions between GitLab BV and EU-based vendors/contractors, thanks to "Shifted VAT". To make use of this shifted VAT:
Budgets are aligned to departments, and budgets follow the owner who requested the spend. When determining who should request the spend, consider the owner of the outcome.
For example, work to enable a sales partner that will not be incorporated into the product would go to Sales. Work that will be part of the product and supported by engineering, should be charged to the Engineering budget.
Function | Name |
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Customer Support | R&D Finance |
R & D | R&D Finance |
Sales | Sales Finance |
Professional Services | Sales Finance |
Marketing | Marketing Finance |
G & A | Ellen Boyd and Jess Smith |