Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ZeroTo20 is an outsourced embedded strategic accounting, finance, and operations firm supporting growing companies. The Accounting Manager leads a small accounting pod, owns client relationships, and provides hands-on accounting and operational support, including financial close, reporting, cleanup, compliance, payroll, and accounts payable/receivable. The role also coaches accounting staff and partners with Controllers, Practice CFOs, and FP&A teams to maintain client satisfaction and diligence-ready financials.
Responsibilities
- Lead a small pod — a Staff/Jr. Accountant and a Senior Accountant — while serving as the day-to-day relationship owner for your book of clients
- Play an active, hands-on role in month-end close and financial reporting for your pod's accounts, not just a reviewer of others' work
- Coach your pod on technical accuracy and, just as important, on judgment: what to handle now, what can wait, and what to escalate
- Keep client books and documentation clean and diligence-ready, so clients are never caught off guard by a raise, an audit, or another big moment
- Partner closely with your Controller, our Practice CFOs, and our FP&A team to make sure nothing falls through the cracks
- Own the operational backbone of your pod — from processing payroll and AP/AR to compliance, vendor relationships, and the day-to-day details that keep things running
Skills
- Startup Experience : time spent inside a fast-growing or venture-backed company, ideally including a real books cleanup — you know what it looks like when the accounting hasn't kept pace with the business, and how to fix it
- Depth of Experience : 5+ years of progressive accounting/bookkeeping experience, including experience reviewing or managing the work of other accountants
- Judgment & Prioritization : a sharp sense for what needs attention now versus what can wait, the instinct to escalate the right things at the right time, and the ability to teach that same judgment to others
- People Leadership : experience coaching and reviewing the work of junior and senior accounting staff
- Diligence-Ready Mindset : comfort keeping financials and documentation organized and investor/audit-ready on an ongoing basis, not scrambled together under deadline
- Client Service Mindset : strong customer service instincts, ideally within a professional services or client-facing accounting environment
- Communication Skills : strong written and verbal communication skills in English, comfortable flexing between coaching staff and speaking directly with client leadership
- Technical Proficiency : proven knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting principles, practices, and standards, with hands-on experience in accounting software such as QuickBooks and strong Excel, Word, and Outlook skills
- Education : Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required
- CPA or CMA a plus
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