Accounting Manager (Remote)

Overview

The organization is seeking an experienced, detail-oriented, and proactive Accounting Manager to oversee accounting operations, manage the month-end close, and ensure accurate financial reporting. This role requires strong technical accounting skills, a forensic approach to identifying errors, and the initiative to ask questions, challenge inconsistencies, and recommend process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Month-End Close: Oversee monthly closing, including journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
• Balance Sheet Management: Ensure accounts are accurate, properly reconciled, and supported.
• Inventory & COGS: Manage inventory accounting, valuation, reporting, and reconciliations, including landed costs and cost of goods sold.
• Marketplace Reconciliations: Reconcile pending deposits, clearing accounts, payment processors, and marketplace settlements.
• Financial Analysis: Proactively identify accounting errors, unusual balances, and discrepancies.
• SOPs & Internal Controls: Develop and implement procedures to improve accuracy, efficiency, and accountability.
• Team Oversight: Review accounting work, provide guidance, and ensure deadlines are met.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required.
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, preferably in e-commerce, retail, or an inventory-intensive business.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP, accrual accounting, and financial statement preparation.
• Advanced understanding of balance sheet accounting, reconciliations, inventory valuation, and COGS.
• Experience independently managing month-end close.
• Proficiency in QuickBooks Online and advanced Excel skills.
• Strong investigative, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience developing SOPs and improving accounting processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• A forensic mindset with the ability to naturally spot errors and inconsistencies.
• Demonstrated ability to ask questions and challenge accounting treatments that don’t make sense.
• Takes initiative rather than waiting for direction, investigates discrepancies, identifies root causes, and recommends solutions and process improvements.

Location

Remote