Accounting Manager

Start: Jan/Feb

Duration: Ongoing full-time

Hours per week: 40

Location: Denver, CO (onsite 3 days per week Tues/Wed/Thurs)

Salary: $90-120K

One of our small marketing/comms agency clients is looking for an Accounting Manager to join their team for a full-time position.

This Accounting Manager will be reporting to and partnering with the agency's CFO (part-time) and leadership/client service teams, ultimately responsible for all of the agency's financial/accounting operations and day-to-day business needs, managing some HR functions, and leading the development of the agency's financial/HR infrastructure and processes to support scaling business needs.

The Accounting Manager must be comfortable and have experience leading accounting operations for a small business, ideally another marketing/comms agency or professional services organization, as well as be excited to have autonomy over the day-to-day operations and comfortable working independently as a 1-person team.

Ideal Accounting Manager candidates will have:

- BA/MA degree in accounting/business

- At least 7-10 years of financial accounting experience in a professional services company

- Knowledge of GAAP accounting principles and procedures

- Project accounting experience including working with government contracts

- Fully proficient with Excel and able to execute analytical functions such as VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, and Charting

- Experience managing the day-to-day accounting processes in a small-business environment including paying vendors, billing clients, managing the general ledger, and preparing the month end/year-end close

- Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills

- Superb attention to detail and accuracy

- Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment

- Knowledge and experience designing, building, and implementing policies, procedures, and sound systems of internal control

- Experience researching technical accounting and regulatory issues and working with external partners to conclude and document positions

- Leadership and management skills, including the ability to manage personnel and projects while utilizing a broad range of company resources in an efficient manner. Hands-on leader with proven management experience.

- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage competing priorities

Nice to have:

- Public accounting experience

- Credentials as a certified CPA, CMA, or CGMA strongly preferred

- Experience with Workamajig project management and accounting software preferred

*Hybrid onsite (Tues/Wed/Thurs mandatory)

**Eligible for full benefits; health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, generous PTO, 401k with company match, etc.