Driven Insights is hiring: ACCOUNTING MANAGER in Gardner

Overview

Job Summary: As an Accounting Manager, you will serve as the primary accounting partner for a portfolio of clients, ensuring meticulous financial reporting, strict adherence to GAAP and regulatory standards, and the delivery of insightful analysis to management teams and stakeholders. This role requires a proactive leader with a strong technical accounting background, capable of navigating dynamic environments and leading a team of accounting professionals while implementing process improvements that enhance efficiency and accuracy. If you are passionate about delivering clarity through financial excellence and ready to lead with a solution-oriented approach, we encourage you to apply.

Location: Work from Home

Responsibilities

• Ownership of Client Accounting Relationship
  • Readily and clearly explain how financial results are derived, detailing the components of specific accounts and variances between expected and actual results to ensure transparency and accuracy for management.
  • Oversee the successful execution of client engagements, ensuring all deliverables are completed on time and at the expected level of quality, including:
  • Manage revenue cycle (order to cash)
  • Oversee expense management process
  • Lead or support payroll processing and accounting
  • Responsible for monthly financial close, KPI measurement & management/board reporting
  • Execution of client compliance
  • Internal controls
  • Oversee compliance with GAAP and relevant regulatory requirements
  • Own client-specific requirements such as sales tax, covenant calculations, and sales commissions calculations
• Management Responsibilities
  • Lead and mentor a team of five accounting professionals, guiding best practices, career development, and performance management to foster a high-performing, collaborative team environment.
  • Support recruitment efforts and help onboard new team members, ensuring they have the tools, resources, and knowledge needed to succeed.
  • Conduct regular performance reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure continued professional growth and alignment with company goals.
• Additional Responsibilities
  • Assumes other special activities and responsibilities as required, including projects such as researching and implementing new technology for internal and customer use, and process improvement initiatives.

Required Skills and Abilities

• Experience successfully revamping accounting processes and technology
• Strong capability with complex revenue recognition (e.g., ASC 606 for subscription revenue)
• Deep knowledge of complex payroll
• Strong QuickBooks Online experience required; Xero, Intacct & NetSuite are a plus
• Strong understanding of KPIs with a track record of using them to make quick, informed decisions
• Excellent Google Sheets / Microsoft Excel GAAP-compliant financial modeling skills
• Firm grasp on sales tax liability management, including tools like Avalara
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proven analytical, problem-solving, critical thinking, decision-making & project management skills
• Ability to work at a high level of intensity in a fast-paced environment
• Flexible and able to handle multiple projects with attention to detail
• Maintain a positive, solution-focused attitude and use good judgment to keep client and company information confidential
• Deliver consistent excellent customer service to internal/external customers, colleagues and management

Education and Experience

• Experience as lead accountant in rapidly growing firm(s)
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
• Master’s in Accounting and/or CPA license preferred
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience as an Accounting Manager
• 2+ years of audit work as an auditor in a CPA firm

Physical Requirements

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Office environment with prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Must operate a computer and standard office equipment such as a calculator, copier, and printer
• Ability to lift laptop and reams of paper
• Infrequent travel for professional development activities