Sr. Manager - Accounting (Remote)

Overview

The Sr. Manager – Accounting oversees technically complex accounting areas, including capital and fixed assets, lease accounting, and intercompany transactions, ensuring compliance with GAAP and internal policy. This role provides hands-on technical leadership across the full accounting cycle, reviews journal entries and reconciliations, and supports process improvement initiatives that leverage analytics, automation, and emerging AI-enabled tools to improve accuracy and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical accounting leadership and oversight for complex areas such as capital and fixed assets, intercompany accounting, third-party revenue, and other emerging accounting matters.
• Guide staff on complex transactions, non-routine accounting judgments, and technical standards; serve as the primary technical resource for supervised areas.
• Review staff journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations for adherence to GAAP and internal policies, ensuring close activities are completed accurately and on schedule.
• Prepare or review schedules, disclosures, and supporting documentation for financial statements, auditors, and senior management.
• Support complex variance analysis and provide clear explanations of budget versus actual results across revenue and expense areas.
• Develop, maintain, and evaluate accounting procedures and internal controls for supervised areas; recommend and implement improvements to strengthen compliance, accuracy, and efficiency.
• Build and maintain reporting using analytics and business intelligence tools to support management reporting and close analytics.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual or repetitive accounting tasks using low-code or no-code tools; lead or support implementations in partnership with Finance Systems or Technology Digital Solutions.
• Explore how approved AI-enabled tools and large language model applications can be applied to accounting workflows; develop dashboards and self-service reports to reduce ad hoc requests and improve timely insights.
• Supervise personnel, including work planning, performance evaluations, conflict resolution, interviewing, and hiring recommendations.
• Provide or arrange training for direct reports, support onboarding of new personnel, and develop staff capability in technical accounting and analytics/productivity tools.
• Monitor work schedules and staffing levels to ensure departmental needs are consistently met.
• Respond to accounting and reporting questions from operating departments and senior management in a courteous and timely manner.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with departments including capital planning, legal, operations, and IT to support accurate financial reporting and project-driven accounting needs.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance from an accredited college or university.
• At least six (6) years of progressively responsible and directly related accounting experience, including experience in one or more technical areas such as fixed assets, lease accounting, or intercompany; previous management or supervisory experience required.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Deep knowledge of GAAP applicable to complex technical areas such as fixed assets (ASC 360), lease accounting (ASC 842), revenue recognition (ASC 606), or intercompany transactions.
• Ability to review and prepare journal entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules for technically complex accounting areas.
• Ability to supervise, coach, mentor, train, and evaluate accounting staff; ability to develop solutions to complex problems through data analysis and independent judgment.
• Ability to communicate complex accounting concepts clearly to non-finance stakeholders in written and verbal formats, including presentations to senior leadership.
• Proficiency in analytics and business intelligence tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent; ability to build reports and dashboards that support management decision-making.
• Demonstrated interest in and working familiarity with low-code or no-code automation tools (e.g., Power Automate, Excel-based scripting, RPA tools) to improve accounting workflows.
• Curiosity and openness to exploring approved AI-enabled tools, including large language model (LLM) applications, to evaluate practical uses in accounting operations such as variance analysis, reconciliation support, or policy interpretation.
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, and manage multiple workstreams; ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and tight close deadlines.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships across finance, operations, legal, and IT functions.
• Knowledge of accounting systems and ERP platforms; strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel including advanced formulas, pivot tables, and data modeling.

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare-related accounting experience.
• Experience implementing or significantly improving an accounting process using automation, scripting, or BI tooling in a professional accounting environment.

Licenses and Certifications

• CPA - Certified Public Accountant

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $86.50 - $114.61 per hour
• Final pay for the selected candidate will be determined based on factors including internal equity, experience, education, specialty, and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.

Location

• United States of America

Additional Information

• Day - 08 Hour