Accounting Manager

8020 Consulting

$90K — $108K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including team leadership.
  • Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and month-end close best practices.
  • Confident in managing audits, reconciliations, and reporting processes.
  • Comfortable adapting to new accounting systems (NetSuite, SAP, BlackLine, etc.).
  • Ability to thrive in fast-moving environments and foster client relationships.

Responsibilities

  • Lead monthly close and reporting processes for clients.
  • Support first-year audits by developing PBC schedules and ensuring audit readiness.
  • Implement new accounting standards like ASC 606 and ASC 842, including drafting technical memos.
  • Improve reconciliation processes and streamline journal entry workflows using BlackLine.
  • Manage external audit coordination, issue resolution, and internal controls documentation.
  • Assist in ERP implementations and optimize subledger integrations.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary with paid bench time.
  • Performance-based bonus plans.
  • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(k) with employer match.
  • Generous PTO, company holidays, and floating holidays.
  • Ongoing training, development resources, and education reimbursement.
Full Job Description
The Opportunity

As a full-time Accounting Manager Consultant, you'll bring hands-on leadership and accounting expertise to support our clients through critical transitions, fast growth, and evolving reporting needs. You'll lead initiatives that enhance close processes, ensure compliance, and provide clarity to senior leadership-without the travel demands of traditional consulting.

Engagements are tailored to align with your strengths while supporting continuous development.

Examples of recent Accounting Manager-level engagements include:

  • Leading the monthly close and reporting process for a high-growth consumer products company
  • Supporting the first-year audit of a newly funded startup by building PBC schedules and driving audit readiness
  • Implementing new accounting standards (ASC 606, ASC 842) and drafting technical memos
  • Improving reconciliations and streamlining journal entry workflows using BlackLine
  • Managing external audit coordination, issue resolution, and internal controls documentation
  • Assisting in ERP implementations and optimizing subledger integrations


You'll act as a trusted partner to clients' finance teams, delivering stability, clarity, and results.

What We Look For

We seek accounting professionals who are both technically strong and aligned with how we work:

  • Communication: Clear, respectful, and effective-across teams and levels.
  • Connectors: Collaborative, relationship-oriented, and easy to work with.
  • Intellectually Curious: You think beyond the close to understand what drives business results.
  • Excellence in Action: Committed to quality, ownership, and process improvement.
  • Collective Success: You celebrate shared wins and contribute to team growth.
  • Sense of Urgency: Responsive and proactive-you know timing matters.


Ideal candidates also:

  • Have strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and month-end close best practices
  • Bring 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including team leadership
  • Are confident managing audits, reconciliations, and reporting processes
  • Are comfortable adapting to new systems (NetSuite, SAP, BlackLine, etc.)
  • Enjoy fast-moving environments and building client relationships


Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive base salary with paid bench time
  • Performance-based bonus plans
  • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Generous PTO, company holidays, and floating holidays
  • Ongoing training, development resources, and education reimbursement

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