Vice President of Accounting Operations

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🕒 February 16

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Manila Recruitment

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2010

🎯 Recruiter

🏢 Enterprise

Recruitment • Enterprise

Manila Recruitment is a leading recruitment agency based in the Philippines, specializing in innovative talent sourcing and headhunting services. The agency provides a wide range of recruitment solutions including executive search, IT recruitment, offshore staffing solutions, remote staffing, and more. With a focus on understanding clients' strategic business objectives, Manila Recruitment offers tailored recruitment strategies for multinationals, corporations, and start-ups entering the Filipino market. The firm prides itself on a process-driven approach, offering comprehensive candidate guarantees and a database of over 250,000 candidates. Certified headhunters at Manila Recruitment are dedicated to passive candidate sourcing, ensuring quality hires that align with company culture and requirements.

📋 Description

• Lead and manage a team of 70+ professionals across Accounts Payable, General Accounting, and Special Projects teams. • Establish clear performance expectations and further develop metrics and reporting to monitor efficiency, accuracy, capacity, and service levels. • Communicate performance insights regularly to the U.S. VP of Accounting Operations and COO. • Build and oversee structured onboarding, training, and professional development programs. • Provide coaching, mentorship, and feedback to develop talent and foster a high-performance, accountable culture. • Provide leadership aligned with company mission, values, brand standards, and administrative policies. • Develop and manage a staffing strategy that aligns client complexity, workload volume, and service expectations with individual employee strengths, skill sets, and availability. • Identify available capacity and deploy team members to special projects and cross-functional initiatives based on required skill sets. • Review, standardize, and improve SOPs across client groups to drive consistency and operational efficiency. • Challenge existing workflows and implement process improvements to enhance accuracy, turnaround time, and scalability. • Lead project management efforts to better utilize existing task management and time-tracking tools. • Independently learn and assess current systems, understand real-world usage, and design improved workflows aligned with operational goals. • Own initiatives end-to-end, from concept and design through implementation and sustained adoption. • Troubleshoot operational issues, perform root-cause analysis, and propose solutions for approval by U.S. leadership. • Develop deep expertise in the accounting systems, operational tools, and technologies used by the team and supported clients. • Maintain a strong understanding of company accounting standards, directives, and client requirements. • Lead process documentation and expansion of the Trainual knowledge base to support consistency, scalability, and knowledge transfer.

🎯 Requirements

• ● Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required; CPA preferred. • ● 15+ years of progressive accounting experience, including at least 5 years in senior leadership roles. • ● Proven experience leading large offshore or shared services accounting teams. • ● Restaurant or hospitality industry experience preferred. • ● Strong knowledge of accounting principles, operational controls, and standard operating procedures. • ● Demonstrated ability to scale teams, processes, and systems in a high-growth environment. • ● Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills. • ● Highly tech-savvy, with the ability to quickly learn and optimize new systems and tools. • ● Advanced proficiency in Excel. • Key success indicators: • - Strong root-cause analysis and problem-solving capability • - Ability to design scalable systems and standardize processes • - Operational discipline across teams • - Effective workforce planning and bandwidth optimization • - Autonomous leadership in a fast-scaling environment