Accounting Manager - Advanced English (Manufacturing experience)
- Location: Fully Remote
- Employment Type: Independent Contractor
- Compensation: $3,500 USD / month
- Industry: Financial Services / Fractional CFO & Accounting
Why Work With Them?
Our client is a fast-growing financial services firm dedicated to helping Founders and CEOs scale their businesses from $5M to $50M. Operating as their clients' fractional finance and accounting team, they transform complex financial data into clear, actionable insights that drive strategic growth.
Internally, they operate exactly how they advise their clients: with high ownership, unwavering accountability, and high performance. If you are an elite accounting professional who thrives in a dynamic environment, this is the place for you.
Core Values
- Commitment: Treating clients’ businesses as if they were their own.
- Integrity: Operating with absolute honesty and transparency.
- Accountability: Owning outcomes—both the wins and the lessons.
- Excellence: High standards, consistently applied.
- Urgency & Adaptability: Moving fast, staying agile, and adjusting quickly.
The Role
As the Accounting Manager, you will oversee and manage all bookkeeping operations for a portfolio of high-growth, fast-paced clients. Your primary mission is to ensure flawless financial accuracy, implement robust internal controls, and build foundational accounting processes that support rapid scaling.
You will work closely with external bookkeeping teams and internal FP&A Managers and CFO Advisors to deliver financial clarity and strict compliance.
This role is a perfect fit if you:
- Catch errors and inconsistencies that others miss—you never settle for "close enough."
- Question numbers that don’t reconcile, even when the source insists they are correct.
- Take immense pride in clean reconciliations, tied-out models, and pristine documentation.
- Hold firm on accounting standards and data integrity, refusing shortcuts.
- Communicate and defend your conclusions clearly, using data to back your position.
- Are comfortable pushing back when the numbers don’t align with the narrative.
- Take full end-to-end ownership of your work until every issue is completely resolved.
Key Responsibilities
Month-End Close & Quality Control
- Close Management: Review and sign off on month-end close packages prepared by external bookkeepers; strictly enforce close timelines, checklists, and documentation standards.
- Primary Reviewer: Audit all bookkeeping work to ensure absolute accuracy, proper coding, and completeness of transactions.
- Balance Sheet Validation: Validate balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring all accounts are fully supported and sub-ledgers align perfectly with the General Ledger (GL).
- Feedback Loop: Provide clear, structured feedback to bookkeepers, requiring timely corrections and identifying recurring errors to drive long-term quality improvements.
Variance Analysis & Model Integrity (AI-Powered Workflow)
- Variance Analysis: Leverage Claude AI to prepare insightful budget-vs-actual variance reports, tracing unexpected variances back to their root causes.
- Adjustments Oversight: Direct reclassifications, accruals, and corrections to bookkeepers, ensuring all adjustments are accurately reflected in the final financials.
- Model Auditing: Use Claude AI to validate financial models at each close, ensuring actuals tie to the GL, trial balance, and supporting schedules.
- Logic Verification: Audit model logic via AI for formula errors, broken references, or hardcoded values, and escalate material discrepancies with documented recommendations.
Process Optimization & Collaboration
- SOP Architecture: Identify operational gaps and build/refine standard operating procedures (SOPs) across all accounting workflows.
- Tech Stack Mastery: Maximize the efficiency and automation of company systems (QuickBooks, Xero, Dext, Excel, ClickUp, and Claude).
- Cross-Functional Partner: Coordinate with external tax partners, collaborate with the FP&A Manager for accurate modeling, and support the CFO Advisor with reliable, decision-ready financials.
RequirementsExperience & Education
- 5+ years of accounting experience, specifically within manufacturing or product-based industries (COGS, inventory management, and supply chain accounting knowledge is essential).
- Proven experience owning, reviewing, and optimizing the full month-end close process.
- Experience working with startups, scale-ups, or growth-stage companies is highly preferred.
- CPA license is a significant plus, but not required if experience demonstrates mastery.
- Background or exposure to FP&A functions is a strong advantage.
Skills & Tools
- Software Proficiency: Advanced, hands-on experience with QuickBooks Online or Xero, and expert-level Excelskills.
- AI Literacy: Experience incorporating Claude AI (or similar LLMs) into financial workflows, data analysis, and report generation.
- Workflow Tools: Familiarity with modern operational tools like ClickUp and Dext.
- Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex financial discrepancies clearly and professionally.
Why You Should Join
- Competitive Contractor Compensation: $3,500 USD per month.
- 100% Remote Autonomy: Work from anywhere as an Independent Contractor with a high degree of trust and flexibility.
- Direct Impact: Play a pivotal role in the scaling journey of exciting companies moving from $5M to $50M.
- Cutting-Edge Stack: Work with a forward-thinking team that actively leverages AI tools to optimize traditional accounting workflows.
- Professional Growth: Collaborate with elite CFO Advisors and FP&A professionals in a high-performance culture.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $60,000.00 - $65,000.00 per month
Application Question(s):
- How would you rate your professional English fluency, and what is your experience explaining complex financial discrepancies to non-financial stakeholders?
- When reviewing a month-end close package from bookkeepers, what are the first three balance sheet accounts you audit to catch errors?
- Can you give me a brief example of a complex inventory or COGS reconciliation issue you solved in a product-based industry?
- How have you used advanced Excel or AI tools like Claude to perform variance analysis or audit financial models?
- This is a 100% remote role under an Independent Contractor agreement. Are you comfortable managing your own taxes and invoices under this setup?
Work Location: Remote
