Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. System Six is a fully remote provider of comprehensive cloud-accounting services, including bookkeeping, payroll, bill-pay, invoicing, sales tax filing, and financial reporting. The Client Accounting Lead oversees full-charge accounting and finance processes for multiple clients, manages service delivery, serves as the primary client contact, and coaches support team members. The role also evaluates prospective clients and manages onboarding and cleanup activities.
Responsibilities
- You are responsible for the overall care of full-charge bookkeeping and finance processes (invoicing, bill-pay, payroll processing, monthly close, sales tax, year-end prep, etc) for 10-20 clients
- You work with support team on all aspects of service delivery by scheduling and delegating tasks, reviewing work, and coaching and answering questions warmly and clearly
- You act as primary client contact, answering questions with joy and advising as needed to suggest process improvements
- You review the books of potential clients to see what errors need fixing and to help sales in accurate pricing of new engagements along with crafting a plan to onboard new clients into our systems. When potential clients sign, you delegate and manage the necessary clean-up and onboarding work
Skills
- Multi-client cloud accounting experience. You've had 5+ years remotely managing multiple clients in multiple industries from end to end including process implementation and improvement, onboarding and clean-up, and financial reporting and interpretation. You've had extensive experience running payroll, closing monthly books, and creating processes for cash and accrual-basis clients. 4+ years in QBO, BILL, Gusto, and other common cloud accounting softwares
- Strong accrual knowledge. You've managed clients with full accrual accounting processes and have maintained detailed and audit-ready schedules for non-bank balance sheet accounts and have worked with clients that have to pull in data from external systems to complete the monthly close
- Higher-education accounting or finance degree
- Excellent communication skills across digital channels and an innate desire to build relationships
- Keen attention to detail and a passion for bringing the same out of others
- Resourcefulness as an excellent problem solver who also knows when to ask for help
- Humility and openness to coaching and critiques; always seeking to improve
- Excellent coaching skills and a desire to empathetically teach and mentor junior staff
- Joy and a positive attitude in all communications internally and externally
- Persistence and an ability to politely remind others to stay on track
- This position is available for US-based individuals seeking full-time work (30 or more hours a week)
- This is a 100% remote, work from home role. You must have strong, reliable home internet connection and an environment conducive to video and phone calls
- Availability is required five days a week within standard professional hours
- Experience at a CPA firm or public accounting experience is a plus
Benefits
- A joyful work environment where employees and culture are paramount.
- A 100% remote environment with flexibility during daytime professional hours.
- A quarterly bonus structure based upon a percentage of client profit generated by your book of business that ranges from $2,000-$4,000 annually.
- All work equipment provided.
- Health and dental insurance.
- 401k matching.
- PTO.
- Family leave.
- Annual in-person gatherings.
- Growth opportunities and support in efforts to grow with System Six.
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