Accountant V

Responsibilities A client with Kforce is seeking an Accountant V to join their team in Mountain View, CA. Duties Include:

• Identify and prioritize valuable workflows; Translate customer needs into practical use cases and assess opportunities based on customer value, frequency, complexity, and accounting risk
• Represent different user personas; Define how workflows, explanations, and review requirements should differ for business owners, bookkeepers, external accountants, and finance leads
• Define accounting correctness; Specify expected calculations, accounting treatments, assumptions, supporting evidence, and final QuickBooks Online (QBO) records; Recognize when multiple treatments are acceptable or additional information is needed
• Assist in developing realistic evaluations; Create representative business scenarios, test datasets, reference answers, and scoring criteria. Include incomplete records, conflicting information, exceptions, and multi-step workflows
• Verify completed outcomes; Review both the agent's response and the resulting accounting records; Confirm that requested actions were completed correctly, records reconcile, and explanations accurately describe what happened
• Diagnose failures and guide improvements. Identify accounting errors, missing steps, unsupported conclusions, and confusing interactions; Turn findings into reproducible examples and actionable requirements for technical teams
• Define appropriate controls; Help establish when an agent can proceed, should ask a clarifying question, needs approval, or should refer an issue for professional review
• Improve the overall experience; Review how agents communicate findings, explain decisions, handle exceptions, and help users understand the next step

Requirements

• CPA, CA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification
• Advanced QBO expertise across multiple businesses or complex workflows; QBO ProAdvisor certification is a plus
• Substantial hands-on accounting or bookkeeping experience supporting small and midsize businesses, ideally across multiple clients or industries
• Working proficiency with QBO, including recording and reviewing transactions, reconciling accounts, and interpreting financial reports
• Experience collaborating with software product teams, conducting user acceptance testing, or developing quality standards
• Ability to independently verify accounting outcomes in QBO and investigate discrepancies
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with spreadsheets and structured datasets
• Ability to translate ambiguous customer requests into explicit requirements, assumptions, and acceptance criteria
• Ability to explain accounting reasoning clearly to both accounting professionals and non-accountants
• Curiosity about AI tools and willingness to test their behavior critically and systematically
• Ability to collaborate effectively with product, design, and engineering teams

Familiarity with AI evaluation, scoring rubrics, or reviewing AI-generated financial analysis.

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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