Accounting Manager

• Co-lead close optimization and efficiency initiatives, identify manual processes, build roadmaps, and drive improvements that reduce manual effort and strengthen scalability across the accounting organization
• Own close communications, facilitation, and tracking, maintaining the operational rhythm of the close cycle
• Overhaul and maintain the artifacts, templates, and frameworks used to coordinate close activity across the accounting org
• Lead recurring cross-team accounting programs, such as close management and consolidation, driving standardization and coordination across teams
• Provide oversight of the intercompany program; partner with Tax, Legal, Treasury, and Compliance to confirm that shared services and transfer pricing agreements are operating as intended, and flag issues that need to be addressed
• Represent accounting in Zillow Group–wide strategic projects such as M&A integrations, new entity formation, and reorganizations, and project-manage the execution of related activities across the accounting organization
• Develop and enhance operational policies and internal control frameworks to ensure SOX compliance
• Deliver financial analysis and develop metrics that provide insight into close processes, supporting efforts to drive optimization, standardization, and scalability
• Own the accounting for a focused set of close areas, including expense accruals, ensuring that related journal entries and reconciliations are accurate and well supported
• Act as a reviewer of intercompany activity across a defined subset of entities operating under shared service and transfer pricing agreements, ensuring settlements are recorded accurately and in accordance with those agreements
• Author or review monthly fluctuation analyses and month-end close documentation for owned areas.

• Own end-to-end delivery of all fund accounting services for the client, with full accountability for accurate, timely, complete, and controlled delivery of all agreed deliverables.
• Drive a service excellence culture across Fund Accounting and all supporting global operations teams, ensuring daily execution meets client expectations and agreed service standards.
• Take primary accountability for client outcomes, including service quality, client satisfaction, issue ownership, and timely resolution of escalations.
• Establish clear delivery standards, performance routines, and governance across teams, aligned with the global operating model and enabled by corporate technology wherever possible.
• Act as the senior escalation point for material service issues, high-severity incidents, client complaints, regulatory matters, and remediation activities impacting the client.
• Lead prioritisation and delivery of client change activity, including transitions, fund launches, operating model enhancements, and process improvement initiatives.
• Lead senior client engagement, including governance meetings, service reviews, escalation discussions, and executive updates, with clear ownership of follow-through and outcomes.
• Provide timely, relevant, and action-oriented reporting to corporate and regional governance committees to support effective oversight, challenge, and decision-making.
• Manage budgets and resourcing in line with client commitments and corporate objectives.
• Ensure optimal technical set up of fund accounting services and elections across funds.
• Ensure every team member has clear reporting lines, defined authority levels, documented responsibilities, measurable objectives, and the training required to execute with confidence and accountability.

Fund Accounting, Managing Director

• Supporting teams in the execution of capital markets transactions and advisory services
• Participating in the preparation and analysis of financial statements and reports
• Assisting with the application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in financial reporting
• Engaging in project management tasks to streamline workflow and meet project goals
• Utilizing Alteryx for automation and data analysis to enhance financial insights
• Contributing to the development of accounting policies and procedures for client engagements
• Collaborating on market analysis to identify trends and opportunities in capital markets
• Assisting in the preparation for Initial Public Offerings (IPO) and other regulatory reporting requirements

Deals – Capital Markets & Accounting Advisory Services Intern

• Supporting teams in the execution of capital markets transactions and advisory services
• Participating in the preparation and analysis of financial statements and reports
• Assisting with the application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in financial reporting
• Engaging in project management tasks to streamline workflow and meet project goals
• Utilizing Alteryx for automation and data analysis to enhance financial insights
• Contributing to the development of accounting policies and procedures for client engagements
• Collaborating on market analysis to identify trends and opportunities in capital markets
• Assisting in the preparation for Initial Public Offerings (IPO) and other regulatory reporting requirements
• Observing and learning about deal structures and organization restructuring processes
• Supporting transaction advisory services by conducting research and gathering information

CMAAS Intern, Capital Markets & Accounting Advisory Services

• Provide temporary contract support across the Corporate Accounting and Accounting Operations functions during the NetSuite ERP reimplementation.
• Ensure continuity of month-end close activities, financial reporting and compliance deliverables.
• Prepare, review and approve journal entries, including accruals, reclassification, fixed asset transactions, intangible asset entries and other accounting adjustments.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes.
• Ensure financial records adhere to U.S. GAAP accounting standards, SOX controls and internal accounting policies.
• Support the NetSuite ERP reimplementation by gathering information from Accounting Operations and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Assist with NetSuite data cleansing, migration readiness, and validation of financial statement data integrations.

Accounting Manager – Temporary Contract

• Prepare, review and approve journal entries, including accruals, reclassification, fixed asset transactions, intangible asset entries and other accounting adjustments, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with accounting policies.
• Review fixed assets, lease and intangible asset continuity schedules and perform related general ledger account analysis, including investigation of unusual balances, fluctuations, reconciling items, and data inconsistencies.
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes, ensuring assigned activities are completed accurately and within established timelines.
• Ensure financial records adhere to U.S. GAAP accounting standards, SOX controls and internal accounting policies.
• Support the NetSuite ERP reimplementation by gathering information from Accounting Operations and cross-functional stakeholders, tracking open items, following up on requests, and supporting project deliverables and informed decision-making.
• Assist with NetSuite data cleansing, migration readiness, and validation of financial statement data integrations through the review of accounting data, mappings, reconciliations, and reporting outputs to ensure accuracy, completeness, and data integrity.
• Provide support across Corporate Accounting and Accounting Operations, assisting with accounting activities, process improvement initiatives, and special projects based on business needs, team priorities, and ERP implementation requirements.

Accounting Manager – Temporary Contract (12 Months)

• Manage the order entry and billing process, ensuring accurate and timely invoicing
• Own the AR aging review and drive resolution of past-due balances
• Set collections priorities and strategy — determine which accounts need escalation, payment plans, or credit holds
• Investigate and categorize root cause of at-risk balances and report exposure to the senior leadership team
• Recommend write-offs and reserve adjustments
• Own AP processing oversight — exception handling, invoice approvals, and vendor query resolution
• Manage vendor relationships and resolve payment disputes
• Own payment run planning and disbursement scheduling
• Maintain AP aging and open liability reporting
• Administer the corporate credit card program — card issuance, spend limits, expense coding/reconciliation, and policy compliance
• Own procurement process and systems on behalf of AP; purchasing decisions remain decentralized with the business, but AP owns the P2P workflow, vendor onboarding, and procurement platform administration
• Lead implementation of a procurement tool and process, including P2P workflow, vendor onboarding, and approval routing
• Drive continuous improvement of AP processes, including exception handling, invoice workflow, and payment operations efficiency
• Evaluate and optimize collections effectiveness, including cash application accuracy, collections workflow, and reporting
• Support Salesforce integration on the quote-to-cash side, ensuring order entry and billing data flows cleanly into AR
• Lead system evaluation and ensure proper setup and configuration across the AR/AP toolset
• Manage the day-to-day work, quality, and performance of the AR and AP team
• Own and maintain AR/AP procedural documentation and controls
• Establish a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement across the transactional accounting function
• Serve as the primary point of contact for AR/AP-related audit requests from external auditors.

Manager, Accounting Operations

• Own and manage assigned areas of the multi-entity month-end close, including journal entries, accruals, and intercompany activity, ensuring completion on time and to a high standard.
• Supervise and develop staff accountants and clerks; review their work, mentor their growth, and own the timeliness and integrity of the close for the assigned area.
• Prepare and review balance-sheet reconciliations; investigate and clear variances rather than carrying them forward.
• Maintain accuracy in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, including vendor setup, GL coding, and journal and cash-receipt import files.
• Administer bank activity and positive-pay files and perform account analyses with banking partners; uphold and enforce segregation-of-duties and approval controls over disbursements.
• Review and code corporate expenses, support accounts-payable workflows, and reconcile related accounts.
• Produce internal and management reporting, support liquidity and cash forecasting, and contribute to financial dashboards used by leadership.
• Prepare schedules and supporting documentation for the annual external audit; serve as a primary point of contact for external auditors and lender and regulatory reporting.
• Document, standardize, and improve recurring accounting processes, and lead the integration of acquired entities and new systems onto consistent close procedures.

• Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities
• Oversee balance sheet reconciliations and maintain supporting documentation
• Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting
• Strengthen and monitor internal accounting controls and procedures
• Support annual audit preparation and external audit requests
• Supervise and mentor accounting personnel across operational accounting functions
• Collaborate with department leaders to improve financial processes and accountability
• Identify opportunities for workflow improvements, efficiency, and standardization
• Ensure compliance with nonprofit GAAP and organizational policies

• Own the preparation and review of journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and monthly close schedules, ensuring accuracy and timely completion
• Ensure proper application of ASC 842 lease accounting standards and fixed assets accounting ASC 360, overseeing classification and reporting accuracy across the lease portfolio
• Manage the fixed asset register end-to-end, including reconciliations to the general ledger and administration of the fixed asset system (e.g., NetAsset)
• Reconcile lease and fixed asset records against fleet management software (e.g., Fleetio) to ensure data accuracy and consistency across systems
• Review and approve month-end accruals, ensuring supporting documentation and departmental input are accurate and complete
• Serve as a key accounting contributor on bus financing transactions, advising on deal structuring, debt and lease classification, and financial statement impact
• Partner with FP&A, Legal, and cross-functional teams to drive reporting initiatives and ad hoc projects
• Manage the external audit process, including preparation of schedules and resolution of auditor inquiries
• Lead the preparation of consolidated financial statements, including intercompany eliminations and reporting across multiple subsidiaries
• Lead meetings with Legal, Procurement, and Operations to obtain the contracts and supporting documentation needed for lease and fixed asset accounting
• Drive continuous process improvements to strengthen the accuracy, efficiency, and controls of financial operations
• Review and mentor accounting staff, providing guidance and quality oversight of their work product
• Support the Company's internal audit program and ensure compliance with SOX requirements while assisting with special projects and other ad hoc assignments as needed

Accounting Manager, Lease & Fixed Assets

• Take ownership of daily hedge fund accounting operations, including cash, position, and market value reconciliations
• Process and monitor trade activity while ensuring accuracy across all investment records
• Review accruals, expenses, and fee calculations to ensure completeness and compliance
• Manage corporate actions from end to end, including validation of pricing and event data using independent sources
• Perform analytical reviews of daily and monthly fund performance and financial results
• Collaborate with investment managers, prime brokers, auditors, and tax teams to resolve breaks and ensure alignment across stakeholders
• Support audit and tax deliverables by preparing accurate, well-documented supporting schedules
• Contribute to process improvements in a fast-paced, high-volume trading environment

Senior Associate, Hedge Fund Accounting

• Responsible for performing standard, routine, transactional accounting services tasks in support of Enterprise Disbursements
• Focuses on accurate execution of clearly defined procedures, timely task completion, and escalation of issues outside of established guidelines
• May perform disbursement and accounting service tasks as assigned, following established procedures
• Completes assigned work to meet or exceed established key performance measurements and service level agreements

Accounting Services Analyst I

• Administer end-to-end payroll through Rippling, including new hire setup, terminations, pay changes, benefits deductions, and off-cycle payments.
• Ensure accurate and timely processing of U.S. federal, state, and local payroll taxes, including registrations, filings, and remittances in new states as the company grows.
• Monitor multi-state payroll tax compliance and stay current on changing state tax rules.
• Reconcile payroll runs against the general ledger and resolve discrepancies.
• Respond to customer inquiries related to billing, payments, and subscription upgrades/downgrades, coordinating with Sales and Support as needed.
• Maintain documentation for payroll and tax processes, and identify opportunities to automate or streamline recurring work.
• Support year-end tax activities, including W-2s, 1099s, and state annual filings.
• Process employee expense reimbursements and manage day-to-day corporate card administration through Brex.

• Leading accounting policy evolution
• Driving technical excellence
• Ensuring compliance excellence
• Crafting financial narratives
• Becoming the technical authority
• Accelerating close cycles
• Solving novel problems

Manager, Technical Accounting and Reporting

• Own the end-to-end accounts payable (AP) function, including invoice processing, vendor payment runs, subledger-to-GL reconciliations, aging review, and month-end accruals.
• Oversee and develop the AP team — including the Team Lead and AP Specialists — through goal-setting, performance reviews, coaching, and day-to-day support.
• Prepare month-end reconciliations and variance analysis, investigating and explaining significant fluctuations to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Manage and enforce AP internal controls, with a focus on fraud prevention around vendor banking changes, duplicate payments, and high-risk transactions.
• Identify opportunities to streamline and modernize AP workflows, whether through process redesign, automation, training or AI-powered and agentic tools to reduce manual effort, increase accuracy, and scale the function as the business grows.
• Oversee the P-Card and T&E programs, including policy compliance, platform configuration, card issuance, and vendor coordination.
• Approve invoices in accordance with the Spend and Transaction policy, confirming proper GL coding, PO matching.
• Coordinate and execute vendor payment runs, including intercompany payments, and partner with Treasury on funding requests to ensure payments are made accurately and on time.
• Support vendor management, including new vendor setups, banking updates, payment term optimization, and escalated dispute resolution.
• Support internal and external audit requests related to accounts payable documentation and controls.
• Support shared services initiatives and partner with the Director, Accounting on cross-functional priorities and department-wide projects.
• Take on additional projects and responsibilities as the business evolves and Accounting team needs shift.

• Own enterprise billing and revenue recognition end-to-end. Turn quote-to-cash and ASC 606 revenue recognition into a clean, best-in-class motion that leadership and the board can trust.
• Own and accelerate the close. Streamline monthly and quarterly close with our outsourced firm, then bring core functions (GL, reconciliations, AR/AP, close) in-house on a schedule you set, toward a predictable sub-10-day (or better) cadence.
• Choose and implement our ERP. Within your first 6-9 months, evaluate legacy options (NetSuite) against AI-native platforms (Campfire, Rillet) against our real requirements, make the call, and then own the implementation, building the function AI-native from the start.
• Get us audit-ready, then lead the audit. Stand up GAAP policies and a right-sized controls framework, clean historical financials, and select and manage the auditor through Vizcom’s first external audit.
• Build the team and the org over time. As volume grows, define and hire the first accounting roles (GL Accountants, Revenue Accountants, and beyond) and develop the team (including AI Agents) you’ll eventually lead.
• Partner across the business. With the VP, Finance & Operations on reporting, board, and investor support. With GTM, Product, and Data on the systems that connect accounting to the company. And with external tax, compliance, and outsourced partners.

Head of Accounting

• Train client accounting staff on KeyStone functionality.
• Support credit unions in balancing of clearing/suspense accounts.
• Build financial statements.
• Serve as a remote resource, on-site as needed during conversion week.
• Work with the client and mentor to understand existing functionality and processes.
• Consult with clients to configure existing processes to KeyStone.
• Prepare the client for the GL conversion process.
• Assist client through the conversion process and provide training and support during and post-conversion.
• Work with clients on table mapping to the new GL chart of Accounts, GL Accrual types, A/P Vendors, Invoice Types, Work Queues.
• Provide guidance in setting up batch jobs for all GL related functions.
• Understand and practice basic concepts of database setup requiring GL Information.
• Train via Web-ex on KeyStone’s General Ledger product.
• Travel on-site for GL Conversion and support as needed.
• Maintain effective communication with clients and team members throughout the conversion process.
• Identify potential issues and ensure proper resolution.

Accounting Analyst

• Support the financial operations of our Probate and Estate Planning department
• Manage collections and monitor cash flow
• Review invoices and ensure accuracy of trust account activity
• Identify inefficiencies and improve processes

• Run the day-to-day financial operations of our clients including the general ledger, payables, receivables, payroll, collections, and financial reporting
• Monitor our team’s usage of our internal procedures, processes, and controls
• Manage both onshore and offshore staff on an ongoing basis as they perform transactional activities, technical accounting activities, and synthesize data into reports or analysis for the clients
• Assist in the preparation of financial statements in compliance with official guidelines and requirements
• Manage communications with vendors, customers, partners, shareholders, banks, and other interested parties for each client
• Manage journal entries, reconciliations, and coordinating the overall effort for the monthly and annual closing processes
• Assist in the preparation of budgets and forecasts
• Review the company’s accounting information to identify and resolve inaccuracies or imbalances
• Convert customers to new accounting systems and perform cleanup activities on clients’ books and records
• Advise and assist with technical accounting decisions
• Develop models and analysis for client requests
• Encourage ongoing improvement of internal operations

Outsourced Accounting Manager – Life Science

• Oversee assigned areas the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes in accordance with US GAAP. This includes but is not limited to preparing and approving journal entries, creating and maintaining accounting schedules, and performing and reviewing account reconciliations as well as other reporting. Ensure the accuracy and completeness of financial records and reporting.
• Own licensing and royalty reporting ensuring reports are prepared accurately and timely, in accordance with contractual deadlines.
• Perform ad hoc financial analyses and special projects as assigned.
• Develop, implement, and maintain accounting policies, procedures, and strong internal controls.
• Identify process gaps, recommend improvements, and implement best practices to strengthen the accounting function.
• Supervise, mentor, train, and develop accounting staff, including two Senior Accountants.
• Establish priorities, review work, and provide coaching to support professional development.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performing team environment focused on accountability and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Merchandising, Operations and Technology teams to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Work closely with the Operations team to develop processes and controls to ensure complete and accurate commerce transaction reporting through NetSuite ERP.
• Collaborate with the Technology team to identify reporting issues and develop automated reporting solutions.
• Build strong relationships across departments to support business initiatives and improve operational efficiency.

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