Accounting Manager / Lead

ITPartners+

$75K — $95K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of accounting experience
  • Previous experience as Controller, Assistant Controller, or Accounting Manager
  • Proven expertise in month-end close processes
  • In-depth knowledge of AP, AR, payroll, accruals, and reconciliations
  • Strong proficiency in Excel for handling accounting data

Responsibilities

  • Own the monthly close, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery
  • Act as a hands-on reviewer for accounting tasks and controls
  • Oversee billing and accounts receivable to maintain revenue integrity
  • Lead a team of 3 accounting specialists, driving accountability and workflow improvements
  • Manage accounting for mergers and acquisitions throughout all stages

Benefits

  • 99% fully paid healthcare coverage for employees
  • Equity participation and profit-sharing bonuses
  • Health premiums subsidized for family
  • Optional subsidized dental and vision insurance
  • Life insurance, AD&D, and long-term disability
  • Generous maternity and paternity leave policies
  • Virtually unlimited paid time off
  • Emphasis on personal growth and development
  • Supportive, people-first work environment with company events
Full Job Description
Are you a hands-on accounting leader who likes ownership, clean processes, and making things run the right way?

ITPartners+ is looking for an Accounting Lead to own day-to-day accounting operations and bring consistency, discipline, and clarity to our close, billing, and accounting workflows. This is a hands-on operational role where you will prepare work, review work, and improve how accounting gets done.

If you enjoy being close to the details, building reliable processes, and serving as the steady owner of accounting execution, this role is for you.

What You'll Do (Key Responsibilities)
  1. Own the Monthly Close
    Lead the month-end close from start to finish, including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, payroll entries, and supporting schedules - ensuring accuracy, completeness, and on-time delivery.
  2. Ensure Strong Accounting Review & Controls
    Act as the hands-on reviewer for accounting work, maintaining clean support, organized workpapers, and practical review points while escalating judgment items when needed.
  3. Protect Revenue & Support Billing and AR Integrity
    Serve as an accounting watchdog over billing, AR, credits, cash application, and recurring revenue - actively identifying exceptions, gaps, and leakage risk.
  4. Improve Accounting Operations Through Leadership & Automation
    Lead & hold accountable a team of 3 accounting and billing specialists. Coordinate accounting workflows, assign ownership, and introduce practical automation or AI-enabled tools that improve follow-up and reliability without weakening controls.
  5. Merger + Acquisition Accounting Ownership
    Support full cycle accounting for acquired businesses, ensuring opening balances, revenue, payables, payroll, and related are accurate, supported, and properly coded. Actively participates in all stages including initial prospect review, due diligence, deal close, and post-merger integration.


What Success Looks Like
  • The monthly close runs through clear calendars and checklists
  • Accounting schedules are organized, supported, and repeatable
  • Revenue and spend risks are identified early, not after the fact
  • Leadership and/or fractional CFO receives reviewed outputs and clear exceptions
  • Accounting operations scale smoothly as the business grows


Required Qualifications
  • 7+ years of accounting experience
  • Prior Controller, Assistant Controller, or Accounting Manager experience
  • Strong month-end close ownership and review experience
  • Solid knowledge of AP, AR, payroll accounting, accruals, and reconciliations
  • Strong Excel skills and comfort working with accounting extracts and schedules


Preferred Experience
  • MSP, IT services, or professional services environments
  • QuickBooks Online and related finance systems
  • Recurring revenue, WIP, or project-based accounting
  • Acquisition-active or multi-entity environments
  • Experience using automation or workflow tools in accounting operations


Benefits of Working at ITPartners+
  • 99% fully paid healthcare coverage for employees
  • Equity participation and profit-sharing bonuses
  • Health premiums subsidized for family
  • Optional subsidized dental and vision insurance
  • Life insurance, AD&D, and long-term disability
  • Maternity and paternity leave (including foster and adoption)
  • Virtually unlimited paid time off
  • Strong focus on personal growth
  • A fun, people-first work environment with company events


One Last Thing

Instead of a cover letter, record a 1-to-2-minute video via YouTube or Vimeo to Lauren at [redacted]. Share who you are and why you would be a strong fit. This helps us move quickly in the process.

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