Senior Accountant – Cleanup Manager

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $65k - $85k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💲 Accountant / Accounting

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breakwater accounting + advisory corp

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

💸 Finance

Consulting • Finance • Accounting

Breakwater Accounting + Advisory Corp. is a full-service accounting firm that acts as a strategic advisor, controller, accountant, and bookkeeper for its clients. They provide a range of outsourced accounting services designed to streamline operations, improve workflow, and deliver accurate financial reporting. With a focus on cloud-based solutions and certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisors, Breakwater aims to minimize risk and enhance business efficiency.

📋 Description

• Investigate messy financial records to determine what happened and why. • Trace transactions to uncover errors, missing information, and broken processes. • Develop and complete practical cleanup plans. • Reconstruct financial activity when existing records are incomplete. • Reconcile and substantiate balance sheet accounts, including cash, payroll, loans, revenue, prepaids, accruals, fixed assets, and equity. • Create supporting schedules and documentation explaining why the numbers are correct. • Redesign charts of accounts when needed. • Organize financial reporting so business owners can understand the business. • Reverse-engineer invoicing, payroll, inventory, and expense workflows to identify problems. • Help create processes that prevent recurring issues. • Troubleshoot complex QuickBooks Online issues and resolve stubborn balances. • Use modern accounting technology and AI to solve problems and improve efficiency. • Work directly with clients to gather information, explain accounting issues, and keep projects moving. • Collaborate with the Breakwater team, document work, and create clean handoffs to the ongoing accounting team. • Manage multiple cleanup projects simultaneously.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting. • 5+ years of high-level accounting, audit, or full-cycle bookkeeping experience. • Strong understanding of how balance sheets actually work. • Experience with accruals, revenue recognition, depreciation, amortization, and other complex accounting concepts. • Prior reviewer, senior accountant, audit, or similar experience. • Proven experience cleaning up messy or inaccurate financials. • Expert-level QuickBooks Online proficiency. • Excellent investigative and problem-solving instincts. • Ability to stay focused and see a problem through to completion. • Confidence communicating complex financial issues to non-accountants. • Ability to manage multiple projects without losing the details. • Experience in an outsourced, multi-client accounting environment is a plus. • Experience with Xero, Dext, Ramp, BILL, Gusto, ACS/Realm, and advanced Excel is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• $65,000 to $85,000 salary • Full-time employment • Five weeks of PTO • Benefits • A collaborative, supportive team • Challenging accounting work where you get to solve problems every day