Accounting Manager - Fully Remote

Overview

This role supports a portfolio of funded, high-growth startups with full ownership of the monthly close across multiple clients. You will manage offshore accountants who handle transactional work, while you focus on review, judgment, and client-facing conversations.

Clients may include a Shopify brand with inventory and landed costs, as well as a SaaS company with deferred revenue and equity ownership. Work spans areas such as inventory and cost accounting, revenue recognition, lease accounting, and equity accounting—sometimes within the same month.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly close for multiple clients
• Generate timely, accurate monthly financial statements
• Review and guide the offshore team’s work product
• Manage reconciliations, accruals, and deferred journal entries
• Update financial models and cash forecasts with actuals
• Manage client budgets
• Participate in recurring client calls and respond to founder requests directly
• Translate financial results into actionable insights for non-finance founders
• Partner with Controllers on strategic and advisory work
• Own accounting operations outcomes, including:
  • AR: invoicing and collections
  • AP: bill processing and vendor setup
  • Payroll and benefit clearing account reconciliations (including 401(k) and medical)
  • Insurance audits and renewals
  • Inventory and landed costs
  • Sales tax management and compliance
  • Tax and compliance coordination
  • Work with external partners on federal and state income tax returns (C Corp, S Corp, LLC)
  • Annual state filings and franchise taxes
  • Local business registrations, sales and use tax, R&D tax credits, W-9s and 1099s

Requirements

• 7+ years of accounting experience, including at least 2 years managing or reviewing the work of other accountants
• Experience serving multiple clients or entities at once (public accounting, outsourced accounting, or a multi-entity corporate role)
• Strong working knowledge of US GAAP, including:
  • Financial statement presentation
  • Revenue recognition and deferred revenue
  • Prepaid and accrued expenses
  • Fixed assets
• Hands-on ownership of a full-cycle monthly close
• Fluency in QuickBooks Online or Xero
• Strong Google Sheets skills (pivot tables, SUMIFS, model maintenance)
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance concentration preferred
• Comfortable leading a client call without a Controller in the room

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA, or CPA-eligible and pursuing it
• Big 4 or national public accounting background
• Startup or VC-backed client experience
• Inventory, manufacturing, or cost accounting exposure
• Equity accounting exposure

Tools & Systems

• Ability to learn new client systems quickly
• Examples of tools used include: Puzzle, Ramp, Rho, Rippling, Carta, Numeral, QuickBooks Online, Xero, Bill.com, and Gusto (and other accounting/finance platforms used by clients)

Compensation & Benefits

• $100,000 - $120,000, depending on experience and location
• Health, dental, and vision
• 401(k) and matching
• PTO policy
• 100% fully remote
• Professional development, CPA support, CPE reimbursement

Location

• 100% fully remote

Equal Opportunity

The organization is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to an inclusive workplace. Employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status.