Description:
The ideal candidate must have strong technical expertise in full-cycle US bookkeeping, complex book cleanup, internal bookkeeping audits, financial reporting, and accounting team supervision.
This is a senior-level management position requiring both advanced technical accounting knowledge and proven team leadership experience.
1. Multi-Industry US Accounting & Bookkeeping
- Oversee bookkeeping operations across diverse US industries, including construction, real estate, property management, restaurants, e-commerce, retail, healthcare, and professional services.
- Understand industry-specific accounting processes, such as construction job costing, real estate accounting, restaurant POS reconciliations, e-commerce inventory/COGS, and payment processor reconciliations.
- Manage multiple US client portfolios with different business models, accounting complexities, and reporting requirements.
- Handle accounting workflows for businesses operating across multiple US states.
2. Complex Book Cleanup & Catch-Up
- Lead complex US bookkeeping cleanup and catch-up projects.
- Identify and correct historical accounting errors, duplicate entries, misclassifications, and unreconciled transactions.
- Review and correct Chart of Accounts structures, opening balances, and general ledger discrepancies.
- Resolve bank, credit card, payroll, loan, and balance sheet reconciliation issues.
- Ensure accurate and tax-ready books for CPA review and year-end reporting.
3. Bookkeeping Audits & Quality Control
- Conduct internal bookkeeping audits, general ledger reviews, and detailed financial accuracy checks.
- Identify accounting discrepancies, incorrect classifications, and incomplete reconciliations.
- Review trial balances, balance sheets, profit & loss statements, and supporting schedules.
- Implement bookkeeping quality assurance procedures and internal review checklists.
- Ensure accounting records meet applicable US accounting standards and reporting requirements.
4. Accounting Team Management & Supervision
- Lead, supervise, and provide technical guidance to bookkeeping and accounting teams.
- Assign client portfolios, review team deliverables, and monitor deadlines.
- Resolve escalated accounting issues and ensure accurate client reporting.
- Develop accounting SOPs, improve workflows, and maintain quality control.
- Monitor team performance and ensure consistent bookkeeping standards.
5. US Client Portfolio & Accounting Operations
- Oversee month-end and year-end closing processes for multiple US clients.
- Manage client billing, invoicing, accounts receivable/payable, and financial reporting workflows.
- Coordinate with US clients, CPAs, and internal accounting teams.
- Proven hands-on experience in US accounting and bookkeeping across multiple distinct business industries, not simply multiple clients within the same industry.
- Extensive experience in full-cycle bookkeeping, complex book cleanup, catch-up bookkeeping, reconciliations, and accounting error resolution.
- Strong practical experience conducting internal bookkeeping audits, general ledger reviews, and financial quality control.
- Previous experience directly managing, supervising, and reviewing the work of bookkeeping teams.
- Advanced proficiency in QuickBooks Online (QBO) and Microsoft Excel.
- Strong understanding of US GAAP, financial statements, month-end closing, and accounting workflows.
- Experience with multi-state US business operations and client accounting requirements.
- Excellent English communication, analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
- Previous experience in a US accounting firm, outsourced bookkeeping firm, or multi-client accounting environment is highly preferred.