Accounting Manager (FT - Client Services)

The role

You will oversee the monthly close for a group of small business clients. You will manage client relationships, create workflows for bookkeepers, and review financial statements for accuracy.

What you will do

• Oversee the monthly close from beginning to end for a group of growing small business clients
• Act as the trusted point of contact for financial results and clarity
• Create and document workflows for Accounting Specialists to follow
• Train Accounting Specialists on processes
• Ensure work is completed efficiently and on time
• Complete accounting tasks that cannot be delegated
• Review bookkeeping, reconciliations, and financial statements for accuracy and completeness
• Deliver clean, client-ready financials
• Answer client questions and understand their business and goals
• Manage work to stay on track, within scope, and within time budgets

Required qualifications

• At least 5 years of small business accounting experience
• Prepared accrual adjusting entries
• Built and maintained fixed asset and debt schedules
• Prepared and reviewed complete financial statements
• Owned month-end close, start to finish, for more than one client business at the same time
• Communicate clearly with clients and keep agreements
• Design delegation frameworks and build workflows for bookkeepers
• Track time and manage to time budgets
• Strong reviewer of accuracy and completeness within scope
• Systematically reduce rework by fixing processes

Nice to have

• Direct accounting experience working within the real estate or construction industry
• Job costing experience with the ability to track costs by project, phase, or cost code and identify variances early
• Strong understanding of how to handle WIP
• Experience with fixed asset acquisition and disposal
• Experience with construction-specific software and integrating those platforms with accounting software
• Real estate accounting experience alongside construction — rental income, property depreciation, entity structuring
• Managing subcontractors, including insurance compliance, vendor documentation, and annual 1099 preparation and reporting
• Experience with retainage
• Working knowledge of contract revenue recognition, including percentage of completion and completed contract methods
• Sales tax and income tax coordination

Benefits

• Remote flexibility
• Real autonomy
• Leadership development
• Room to expand impact

About the company

Nimbl provides the departments a business needs to scale, all under one roof. They bring functions like accounting, IT, global staffing, and strategy into one coordinated system.