Accounting Manager

Type: 6-Month Contract (Potential Contract-to-Hire)

Job Summary:

This is a hands-on role with a focus on maintaining compliance, ensuring accuracy, and delivering high-quality financial reporting.

• Key Responsibilities: Month-End Close:
• Oversee and manage the month-end close process, ensuring preliminary financials are out on Day 2 and a complete 4-day close is achieved.
• Handle journal entries and adjusting entries as needed.
• Financial Operations:
• Learn and manage customer billing processes.
• Maintain fixed asset records.
• Prepare financials rolled into corporate systems, specifically OneStream.
• Budgeting and Forecasting:
• Assist with budgeting and forecasting processes that are currently manual and require a high level of accuracy.
• Compliance and Audit:
• Ensure compliance with SOX regulations
• Participate in audit preparation and handle audit requests, particularly internal quarterly audits and annual peer review audits.
• Internal Controls and Improvements:
• Collaborate on internal controls and processes while respecting SOPs that are created externally.
• Continuously recommend and implement process improvements.
• Team Leadership and Management:
• Oversee the accounting department and manage staff to ensure all deadlines are met.
• Foster a supportive and efficient team environment.
• Interdepartmental Communication:
• Effectively explain financial concepts and processes to interdepartmental teams.
• Required Skills and Qualifications:
• Technical Skills:
• Strong proficiency in MS Excel, including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and SUMIFs.
• Full cycle ownership of the month-end close process, with a hands-on approach (reviewing the work of others will still be involved).
• Leadership:
• Proven experience managing an accounting team and meeting deadlines.
• Analytical Skills:
• Ability to analyze financial data, forecast trends, and identify areas for improvement.
• Compliance Knowledge:
• Understanding of SOX compliance requirements and internal control protocols.
• Preferred Skills (Nice to Have): Experience with Power BI for data visualization.
• Familiarity with Hyperion or OneStream financial systems.
• Soft Skills: Collaborative and professional demeanor – ability to lead without creating unnecessary conflict.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain financial processes to non-accounting teams clearly and concisely.