Senior Accountant - Cleanup Manager

The role

The Cleanup Manager investigates and fixes messy financial records. You will trace transactions, reconstruct financial activity, and create reliable financial pictures for clients.

What you will do

• Dig into messy financial records to understand what happened and why.
• Trace transactions to uncover errors, missing information, and broken processes.
• Develop practical cleanup plans and work through them to completion.
• Reconstruct financial activity when the existing records don't tell the full story.
• Reconcile and substantiate major balance sheet accounts.
• Create supporting schedules and documentation.
• Redesign charts of accounts.
• Organize financial reporting.
• Reverse-engineer workflows such as invoicing, payroll, inventory, and expenses.
• Work directly with clients to gather information and explain accounting issues.

Required qualifications

• 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.

Nice to have

• Experience in an outsourced, multi-client accounting environment
• Experience with tools such as Xero, Dext, Ramp, BILL, Gusto, ACS/Realm, and advanced Excel

Benefits

• Competitive PTO policy
• Health, Vision, and Dental
• 401k with a Company Match
• A collaborative, supportive team
• Challenging accounting work

About the company

Breakwater Accounting & Advisory is a tech-forward team that works with businesses and nonprofits across a variety of industries.