Senior Accounting Manager Jobs

Build the Finance Department Infrastructure from 0 with your most outstanding creativity, critical thinking, and skillset.

Responsibilities

• Establish and Monitor Financial Systems:Create, monitor, and evaluate financial systems within the organizations..Collect, analyze, verify, and report financial information to document firms' financial performance and position companies to make well-informed financial decisions.
• Lead Accounting Staff:Included in the accounting manager's purview is recruiting, hiring, and supervising accounting staff. They also conduct performance evaluations, coordinate training programs, and identify training need
• Monitor Revenue and Expenses:Ensures companies' financial wellbeing by tracking revenue and expenses, consolidating and analyzing financial data, preparing special reports, maintaining internal controls and other best practices, and reporting activity to internal and external customers.
• Meet Financial Objectives:Recommend forecasting requirements, draft annual budgets, and project expenditures to prepare periodic statements and meet financial regulatory requirements. Analyze general ledger variances and suggest corrective action for management's approval to meet annual accounting financial objectives.
• Achieve Operational Objectives:Develop action plans, audit operations, and propose efficiency improvements. Skilled accounting managers lead the accounting team to provide accurate, timely data and recommendations.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of U.S. GAAP:Must understand GAAP and its implications. For instance, GAAP guides the recording and preparation of financial statements, ensuring they are accurate and complete. GAAP standards also guarantee disclosures properly describe a firm's financial position and performance.
• Microsoft Excel:There are many ways accounting managers leverage Microsoft Excel to streamline data. Some duties include automating repetitive tasks, creating sophisticated financial models, and streamlining data analysis.
• Financial Statement Preparation:Prepare financial statements, which provide insights into the financial health of a company. These insights allow businesses to make strategic decisions about resource allocation. This skill also transfers to other accounting specialties, such astax preparationandauditing.
• Financial Close Experience:Financial close completes all financial transactions for the month, quarter, or year to ensure financial statements accurately represent the reporting period. The financial close process also uncovers errors or discrepancies recorded in the financial statements before publication.

Key Soft Skill Requirements:

• Eye for Detail:Accounting managers must accurately track and record financial transactions, using a keen eye for detail to find and correct discrepancies. This information helps companies make important financial and operational decisions. Thus, it is essential that financial transactions and reports are accurate.
• Organizational Skills:Organizational and time management skills help accounting managers track and prioritize ongoing projects and tasks. With these abilities, accounting managers can effectively launch, monitor, and evaluate accounting operations and deliverables
• Communication:Successful accounting managers effectively communicate financial information to employees, shareholders, and other interested parties. Communication skills allow these professionals to simplify complex financial concepts, build relationships with key stakeholders, and prepare concise financial reports that accurately reflect organizations' financial health.
• Management:Management and supervisory skills allow managers to plan and organize work, set priorities, and delegate tasks. Additionally, these skills help leaders communicate effectively with team members to resolve conflicts and make decisions aligned with company priorities.