Sr. Accounting Manager

$120-135k plus bonus

Remote – 100% work from home with some travel 

Bell & Associates has been engaged to help our client recruit their next Sr. Accounting Manager.  Our client is looking for a hands-on finance and accounting lead to own clean books, a reliable close, and accurate financial reporting across Newman’s growing group of businesses. The opportunity is to build a strong accounting foundation for a growing, private-equity-backed professional-services business, working closely with leadership to improve financial visibility, integrate acquisitions, and put scalable processes and systems in place.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close, including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, and timely GAAP financial reporting.
• Manage multi-entity consolidation and intercompany accounting, maintaining clear, consistent records across businesses and systems.
• Integrate acquired businesses into common accounting processes, including opening balances, receivables cutover, chart-of-accounts alignment, and cash-to-accrual conversion. Work with the company’s ASC 606 advisor on revenue recognition and related policies.
• Help define requirements and implement improvements to the general ledger and broader accounting systems, including Ramp and Rippling or close equivalents. Connect operational data to the ledger and strengthen controls, documentation, and reporting.
• Partner with the leadership team, Strategic Finance, and Business Operations by providing reliable financial data and explaining results.

Requirements

The right person is comfortable working through details and improving processes as the business grows.

Required

• Active CPA with strong GAAP knowledge
• Demonstrated, hands-on ownership of close and financial reporting

Preferred experience

• Multi-entity consolidation and intercompany accounting
• Ramp, Rippling, or comparable expense and payroll systems connected to a general ledger
• Professional services business with private equity sponsorship
• Public accounting
• Cash-to-accrual conversion, ASC 606, acquisition integration, and ERP selection or implementation

Major pluses

• Alternative Practice Structure experience
• AI-native accounting platforms

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Bell & Associates, Inc. is a recognized Executive Recruiting & Staffing leader based in Kansas City. We focus and specialize in the following practice areas – Accounting/Finance, Engineering, Executive Leadership, Financial Institutions, Healthcare, Human Resources, Information Technology, Manufacturing/Operations Management.  We provide top talent to our clients on a Direct Hire, Contract, and Contract-to-Hire basis.