Senior Accountant – Cleanup Manager
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Job Description
Cleanup Manager resolving messy financials for Breakwater Accounting + Advisory. Reconciliating accounts, repairing processes, and creating reliable client financial reporting.
Responsibilities:
- Investigate messy financial records to determine what happened and why.
- Trace transactions to uncover errors, missing information, and broken processes.
- Develop and complete practical cleanup plans.
- Reconstruct financial activity when existing records are incomplete.
- Reconcile and substantiate balance sheet accounts, including cash, payroll, loans, revenue, prepaids, accruals, fixed assets, and equity.
- Create supporting schedules and documentation explaining why the numbers are correct.
- Redesign charts of accounts when needed.
- Organize financial reporting so business owners can understand the business.
- Reverse-engineer invoicing, payroll, inventory, and expense workflows to identify problems.
- Help create processes that prevent recurring issues.
- Troubleshoot complex QuickBooks Online issues and resolve stubborn balances.
- Use modern accounting technology and AI to solve problems and improve efficiency.
- Work directly with clients to gather information, explain accounting issues, and keep projects moving.
- Collaborate with the Breakwater team, document work, and create clean handoffs to the ongoing accounting team.
- Manage multiple cleanup projects simultaneously.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
- 5+ years of high-level accounting, audit, or full-cycle bookkeeping experience.
- Strong understanding of how balance sheets actually work.
- Experience with accruals, revenue recognition, depreciation, amortization, and other complex accounting concepts.
- Prior reviewer, senior accountant, audit, or similar experience.
- Proven experience cleaning up messy or inaccurate financials.
- Expert-level QuickBooks Online proficiency.
- Excellent investigative and problem-solving instincts.
- Ability to stay focused and see a problem through to completion.
- Confidence communicating complex financial issues to non-accountants.
- Ability to manage multiple projects without losing the details.
- Experience in an outsourced, multi-client accounting environment is a plus.
- Experience with Xero, Dext, Ramp, BILL, Gusto, ACS/Realm, and advanced Excel is a plus.
Benefits:
- $65,000 to $85,000 salary
- Full-time employment
- Five weeks of PTO
- Benefits
- A collaborative, supportive team
- Challenging accounting work where you get to solve problems every day
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