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Accounting Services Director
About the role
• Lead, coach, develop, and help hire accountants and bookkeepers
• Review work before it reaches CFOs or clients and enforce quality standards
• Plan portfolio capacity and ensure deadlines are met
• Run the accounting team’s weekly meeting, clear blockers, and address recurring problems
• Own month-end close across every client, completing it accurately within two to ten business days
• Sign off on close files, reconciliations, and working papers
• Set and enforce standards for fixed assets, loans, prepaids, accruals, and deferred revenue
• Lead variance reviews across Shopify, Amazon, wholesale, and expense lines
• Coordinate year-end work with tax accountants and CPA firms
• Write and maintain SOPs, checklists, and close calendars
• Standardize charts of accounts, working paper templates, flash reports, and monthly packages
• Identify and implement automation and AI improvements with the AI team
• Solve complex lease, equity, intercompany, multi-entity, multi-currency, inventory, COGS, sales tax, VAT, and nexus issues
• Act as senior accounting contact for clients and CFOs
• Join client calls, explain complex issues, and follow up with notes and action items
• Flag risks and communicate delays or errors proactively
• Work closely with fractional CFOs to support business decisions
• 7+ years in accounting
• 3+ years leading a team of accountants or bookkeepers and reviewing their work
• Multi-client experience in public practice, outsourced accounting, client accounting services, or a controller role across several entities
• Deep technical accounting knowledge: accrual-basis accounting, leases, equity transactions, deferred revenue, and FX revaluation
• Strong Xero and QuickBooks Online skills
• Ecommerce accounting experience with Shopify, Amazon Seller or Vendor Central, and multi-currency
• Experience building processes and SOPs that people follow
• Fluent business English, written and spoken
• Comfortable on camera with clients
• Ability to coach and empathize
• Ability to be based anywhere in the world with sufficient overlap with North American business hours
• CPA, CA or ACCA listed as nice to have
• Audit, quality of earnings, or due diligence experience listed as nice to have
• Experience with NetSuite, A2X, Dext, Hubdoc, Bill.com, Rippling, or Gusto listed as nice to have
• Performance bonus
• Fully remote work from anywhere in the world
• Generous time off
• Company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Year
• Leadership seat with a path to partner
• Work across a portfolio of ecommerce and consumer brands
• Global team environment