Accounting Manager

Job Title: Accounting Manager

Location: Costa Mesa, CA | Onsite

Employment Type: Contract | Through January (potential extension)

Schedule: Monday–Friday | 8:00 AM–5:00 PM (OT as needed)

Compensation: $51.44 – $57.69 per hour

Job Summary:

The Accounting Manager is responsible for financial reporting, external audit coordination, and tax administration to ensure accuracy and compliance. This role collaborates cross-functionally to support reporting processes and overall financial operations. The position also contributes to financial planning and analysis activities. The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate effectively across departments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare complex month-end journal entries and review less complex entries prepared by staff
• Reconcile assigned general ledger accounts
• Prepare monthly financial reports, ensuring completeness and accuracy
• Prepare and/or assist in the consolidation of subsidiaries in North America on a quarterly basis, including intercompany reconciliation and consolidation elimination entries
• Perform research on new accounting regulations that may impact the company
• Assist with the supervision and timely execution of financial reporting, including monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes
• Ensure financial transactions are processed in a timely and accurate manner in accordance with GAAP, including compliance with new accounting and financial reporting requirements
• Communicate the application of accounting principles to internal departments to support new business processes and ensure accurate financial records
• Assist in ensuring compliance with all in-scope J-SOX controls within the accounting area
• Document and implement process improvements to enhance data accuracy and reliability
• Prepare PBC schedules to support annual audits and quarterly reviews
• Communicate with external auditors on audit matters and build strong professional working relationships
• Process quarterly federal and state income tax payments
• Coordinate with external tax service providers on annual income tax provision and related schedules, including sales tax and other business taxes
• Support the FP&A team with annual budget planning, analysis of operating results and variances, and in-depth financial analysis
• Assist and provide guidance to the staff in the field of closing team
• Assist in coordinating departmental work and ensuring deadlines are met
• Review work prepared by staff to ensure accuracy, reliability, and completeness
• Participate in decision-making related to company goals within the accounting function
• Assist with additional projects as needed
• Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with organizational policies and applicable laws, including training employees and planning, assigning, and directing work
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from a four-year institution or equivalent
• Minimum of six (6) years of accounting experience, including general accounting and management experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong understanding of GAAP and financial analysis skills
• Strong multi-tasking and organizational skills
• Experience working with accounting systems and established accounting practices
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Proven ability to research and resolve issues with a high degree of complexity
• Demonstrated willingness to go the extra mile to ensure tasks are completed accurately and on time
• Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Office, with advanced Excel skills
• Proficiency with SAP or ERP system equivalent
• Ability to follow company policies and safety guidelines
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize in a deadline-driven environment
• Experience managing reporting requirements and tight timelines
• Strong job stability
• Strong knowledge of technical accounting principles
• Ability to read, comprehend, and write simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos
• Ability to effectively present information in one on one and small group situations to internal and external customers.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide into all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Preferred:

• CPA preferred

Work Environment & Physical Requirements:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands and fingers, handle or feel, and talk or hear, with occasional standing, walking, and reaching with hands and arms
• Must be able to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Requires close, distance, color, peripheral, and depth vision, as well as the ability to adjust focus
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.