US Accounting Supervisor

About the role

The Accounting Supervisor is a leadership role responsible for leading and developing a team of accounting professionals. This individual ensures that staff work is accurate, complete, properly supported, and delivered on time; provides ongoing technical training, coaching, and guidance; and strengthens staff capabilities through clear expectations and constructive review. The role also creates, documents, and updates accounting procedures and internal controls so clients' financial statements are consistently accurate, reliable, and timely.

Key responsibilities

• Review preparer work. Confirm every transaction is posted to the correct account, period, and entity, is properly supported, and is classified consistently with prior periods. Issue written review notes and verify clearance before sign-off.
• Reconciliations. Review or perform monthly bank, credit card, and loan reconciliations, splitting loan payments between principal and interest against the lender's amortization schedule. Every reconciling item is cleared, never plugged.
• Balance sheet review. Substantiate every material account to independent support, tie subledgers to their control accounts, maintain roll-forward schedules, and clear suspense and uncategorized accounts before release.
• Profit and loss review. Perform month-over-month, year-over-year, and budget-to-actual variance review; test cutoff, classification, and margin reasonableness; document the explanation for every material variance.
• Complex transactions. Research, record, and document non-routine items — fixed assets and depreciation, leases, debt and refinancing, accruals and deferrals, payroll, sales tax, inventory, related-party and multi-entity activity, revenue recognition, and prior-period corrections.
• Written procedures and training manual. Author and maintain the firm's accounting procedures as a numbered, dated, version-controlled library. Review annually and update within 30 days of any process, software, or regulatory change.
• Staff training and development. Serve as first-line technical guidance, onboard new staff from the written procedures, use review notes to teach the principle behind the correction, and convert recurring errors into training or a new control.
• Close management and client communication. Own the month-end close calendar for assigned clients, review the financial statement package, explain results to clients in plain language, and deliver a closed, reconciled trial balance to the tax team at year end.

About you

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting is required.
• CPA is preferred but not required.
• Preferred: public accounting or multi-client bookkeeping experience.
• At a minimum, seven to ten years of experience on full-accounting cycle, including at least four years in a supervisory capacity reviewing the work of others.
• Proficiency in QuickBooks Online and Desktop; advanced Excel (lookups, pivot tables, reconciliation and roll-forward schedules).
• Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP for closely held businesses, and the judgment to know when an issue needs research or escalation.
• Written communication strong enough that procedures and review notes can be acted on without explanation; proven ability to train staff and manage multiple clients against monthly deadlines.