What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounting & Advisory Supervisor position at Q2SS?
Q2 Strategies is conducting a search for a top-regional Accounting & Advisory firm seeking to hire an Accounting & Advisory Supervisor for their talented and fast-growing team at their Atlanta, GA location! Our client has a national reach while still offering a local firm flavor.
This Accounting & Advisory group has transformed in recent years, providing strategic finance and accounting partnerships to both growing and established clients above and beyond traditional outsourced accounting support. These services include a spectrum of Controller/CFO consulting, business analysis, financial reporting, automation, and process improvement initiatives.
Accounting & Advisory Services Supervisor
As a Supervisor within Accounting & Advisory Services, you will be a client liaison with a team of accountants who fulfill outsourced accounting, business processes, controllership, and financial planning and analysis engagements. Your clients span a broad range of industries and have complex needs, including consolidations, foreign currency accounting, and consulting on best practices.
Essential Functions:
- Supervise client accounting and advisory engagements by effectively communicating needs, technical accounting knowledge, and practical solutions to client, staff, and management challenges.
- Lead and oversee many recurring outsourced controllership engagements, business advisory services, and ad hoc projects using organizational skills to keep up with due dates and changing timelines.
- Review the work of team members and train them in the learning and development of balance sheet account reconciliations, financial statement preparation, payroll taxes, and other responsibilities.
- Hold implementation meetings with new clients to design and execute engagement deliverables and ensure team accountability for client service.
- Collaboratively communicate with stakeholders to identify and solve complex problems around client-specific operational and accounting matters.
- Prepare financial statements under multiple bases of accounting, including cash and accrual for the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Statement of Cash Flows, and other supporting schedules.
- Knowledge of U.S. GAAP and ability to learn and keep up with industry changes.
- Use data extraction and reporting tools to demonstrate trends and develop meaningful conclusions for management consideration.
- Knowledge of financial ratios, analytical techniques, and the relationship between accounts to create and maintain ad hoc reporting, modeling, and performance metrics.
- Prepare payroll tax return forms 1099, W-2, 941, 940, and required state forms.
- Proficient learner of concepts, client business environment, and software applications as required by the firm or client to assist with coaching the firm or client staff when necessary.
- Adhere to the professional ethics of the firm, the AICPA, and the Georgia Society of CPAs.
- Adhere to firm policy regarding client confidentiality.
Position Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance or another relevant degree program.
- CPA license preferred.
- Three to five years of accounting experience, including three or more years of public accounting in client accounting and advisory services.