Senior Manager, Accounting Team Lead

Overview

This role is a fully remote leadership position within a client-facing professional services organization. You will lead a team of professionals delivering finance, accounting, tax, and strategy support to startup and high-growth companies. The Team Lead is accountable for overall team effectiveness, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery across an assigned book of client engagements.

Responsibilities

Team Enablement & Oversight

• Coach Client Leads on solution design, client management, delivery approach, and professional judgment
• Review client engagement approaches for technical risk, complexity, or inconsistency with firm standards and redirect when necessary
• Serve as the first escalation point for delivery challenges, client issues, and team capacity problems
• Ensure all work produced by the team meets firm quality standards before it reaches clients

People Leadership

• Conduct formal performance reviews and ongoing career development conversations with direct reports
• Identify capability gaps within the team and address them through coaching, training, or other resources
• Build a team environment where Client Leads operate with confidence and accountability, not dependency

Capacity & Quality Management

• Balance workload across Client Leads and adjust resourcing to manage close peaks, client demands, and coverage risks
• Drive execution consistency across clients without creating bureaucratic overhead
• Ensure no client engagement is dependent on a single person through cross-training and documentation

Client Execution

• Maintain a purposefully limited personal client book using direct client execution to stay technically current and model standards for the team

Cross-Team Coordination

• Partner cross-functionally across service lines and teams to translate firm-wide standards into practical, client-ready execution within your team
• Surface recurring delivery issues, client patterns, and improvement opportunities to the Director proactively

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required; CPA required
• 7–10 years of accounting experience including at least 2 years in a client lead, manager, or team leadership role
• Public accounting (Manager level) or outsourced accounting leadership experience strongly preferred
• Deep working knowledge of GAAP with direct experience navigating startup-specific accounting complexity, including:
  • SAFEs
  • convertible instruments
  • ASC 606
  • equity compensation
• Demonstrated ability to manage a team and a client portfolio simultaneously without sacrificing quality
• Strong coaching and feedback skills, with experience developing junior accounting professionals
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; executive presence in client-facing situations
• Proficiency in QuickBooks Online; experience with NetSuite, Sage Intacct, or similar platforms preferred
• Experience working in a remote professional services environment strongly preferred

Compensation & Benefits

Pay

• 117,104 - 137,769 USD per year (Remote (United States))

Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage; 100% of the employee’s health insurance premium is covered
• Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability insurance
• Generous Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 11 Paid Company Holidays
• Comprehensive Paid Parental Leave
• Remote Work Setup: fully remote position with company-provided technology equipment and a $250 technology stipend
• 401k with a company match

Location

• Remote (United States)