Accounting Manager
Location: San Ramon, CA
Duration: FTE/Direct Hire
Under the direction of the CFO, the Accounting Manager is responsible for overseeing an Accounting Department, as well as all aspects of general accounting including, processing payroll, accounts receivables and payables, bank reconciliation, tracking purchase orders, GL maintenance and analyzing and producing the financial statements. The accounting department is a fast-paced environment with tight and sensitive deadlines that must be met timely.
The candidate for this position must have excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate internally and externally with all levels of company personnel, client, vendors and consultants. The applicant must be proactive and possess the ability to work both independently and part of a team and is expected to use their general accounting experience to perform a variety of accounting duties effectively to meet all department deadlines in collaboration with the accounting team.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Directly manage 4-5 people within the Accounting Department
- Collect timesheets
- Data entry
- Process payroll
- Payroll taxes reporting and reconciliation
- Accounts payable & receivables
- Bank account reconciliation
- GL accounts reconciliation
- Monthly GL journal entries and accruals
- Perform operating expenses variance analysis
- Prepare & report monthly Financial Statements and footnotes
Special Projects
- Manage and publish scheduled management reports
- Respond to client Ad Hoc reports, as needed
- Support miscellaneous month end/year end reports such as corporate taxes & documentation for 401(k) pension plan audit
Skills and Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or math
- Solid understanding and working knowledge of GAAP
- General accounting experience – three (3) to Five (5) years
- Competent in QuickBooks or equivalent accounting software and use of
- MS suite of applications: Outlook, Excel, Word and Access or similar data base
- Experienced with a payroll System such as ADP, Ascentis, etc.
- Skilled with use of desktop PC and/or laptop; MS Windows and Apple operating systems
- Proficient with navigating ISP’s. i.e. Google, Internet explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc.