Senior Accountant - Cleanup Manager

Overview

Full-time role • $65,000 to $85,000 • Remote

This position is for an accounting professional who enjoys investigating messy financials, determining what caused the issues, and rebuilding accurate books that leadership and clients can trust. Work involves handling multiple cleanup projects in parallel and creating clean handoffs to the organization’s ongoing accounting team.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and solve issues in messy financial records
  • Dig into inaccurate or incomplete financials to understand what happened and why
  • Trace transactions to uncover errors, missing information, and broken processes
  • Develop practical cleanup plans and work them through to completion
  • Reconstruct financial activity when existing records do not tell the full story
• Verify and substantiate account balances
  • Reconcile and substantiate major balance sheet accounts including cash, payroll, loans, revenue, prepaids, accruals, fixed assets, and equity
  • Create supporting schedules and documentation that demonstrate why amounts are correct
  • Produce financials that are accurate, explainable, and defensible (beyond “it balances”)
• Make financial reporting easier to understand
  • Redesign charts of accounts when they no longer serve the business
  • Organize financial reporting so business owners can understand what is actually happening
  • Identify the story behind the numbers and make it clearer
• Fix root causes and improve processes
  • Reverse-engineer workflows such as invoicing, payroll, inventory, and expenses to determine where problems started
  • Help create better processes so the same issues do not repeat
• Use accounting and technology tools
  • Troubleshoot complex issues using QuickBooks Online as a primary tool
  • Untangle stubborn balances and find solutions when the obvious approach isn’t working
  • Leverage modern accounting technology and AI approaches to improve efficiency (no AI expertise required)
• Communicate and collaborate
  • Work directly with clients to ask questions, gather missing information, explain complex accounting topics, and keep projects moving
  • Document work and create clean handoffs to the ongoing accounting team

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• 5+ years of high-level accounting, audit, or full-cycle bookkeeping experience
• Strong understanding of how balance sheets work
• Experience with accruals, revenue recognition, depreciation, amortization, and other complex accounting concepts
• Prior reviewer, senior accountant, audit, or similar experience
• Proven experience cleaning up messy or inaccurate financials
• Expert-level QuickBooks Online proficiency
• Excellent investigative and problem-solving skills
• Ability to stay focused and see problems through to completion
• Confidence communicating complex financial issues to non-accountants
• Ability to manage multiple projects without losing detail

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in an outsourced, multi-client accounting environment
• Experience with tools such as Xero, Dext, Ramp, BILL, Gusto, ACS/Realm, and advanced Excel

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $65,000 to $85,000
• Full-time employment
• Five weeks of PTO
• Benefits

Location

Remote