Senior U.S. Accountant / Accounting Team Lead

Full-time | Long-term | Work from home | U.S. Eastern-time schedule

Important: This Is a Hands-On Accounting Position

We are looking for a highly experienced senior accountant who can personally perform difficult transaction-level accounting, resolve reconciliation problems, review the work of other accountants, and help coach a growing remote accounting team.

This is not a management-only position. A substantial portion of the work will be performed directly in QuickBooks Online (or similar ERP platforms like NetSuite), Excel, Google Sheets, and client workpapers.

If you are no longer comfortable personally correcting transactions, investigating reconciliation differences, preparing journal entries, and completing monthly accounting, this position is not a fit.

About Us

We are a U.S.-based outsourced accounting and fractional CFO firm. We serve small and midsized businesses that have outgrown basic bookkeeping but do not need a full-time internal CFO or controller.

Our clients operate in several industries, including construction, professional services, e-commerce, real estate, and other multi-entity businesses. Our work includes monthly accounting, reconciliations, financial reporting, cash-flow management, cleanup projects, and CFO support.

We have an established remote accounting team in the US and the Philippines and are hiring for growth.

The Position

The Senior U.S. Accountant will work directly with the firm’s owner and support other remote accountants.

The position combines three responsibilities:

Personally performing complex accounting and reconciliation work.
Reviewing and correcting work completed by other accountants.
Helping the team improve its accounting quality, documentation, workflow, and efficiency.

Initially, approximately 70%–80% of the position will involve hands-on accounting work. The remainder will involve review, staff support, workflow coordination, and authorized client communication.

This is a long-term role. A successful candidate may grow into a formal Accounting Team Lead position based on demonstrated technical ability, judgment, communication, and leadership.

Key Responsibilities
Perform monthly accounting for multiple U.S. clients.
Complete difficult bank, credit card, loan, payroll, clearing-account, and balance-sheet reconciliations.
Investigate and correct reconciliation differences, duplicate transactions, deleted transactions, misapplied payments, and posting errors.
Review balance sheets, profit and loss statements, trial balances, and general ledgers for accuracy.
Prepare and review adjusting journal entries.
Review workpapers and accounting completed by other staff members.
Determine whether monthly accounting files are ready for financial reporting.
Identify missing accruals, unsupported balances, classification errors, personal activity, intercompany differences, and unusual transactions.
Review payroll, sales tax, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, loans, equity, and multi-entity activity.
Answer technical accounting questions from staff.
Explain errors clearly and help staff prevent them from recurring.
Distinguish preparer responsibilities from reviewer responsibilities.
Identify repeated work, duplicated effort, and inefficient accounting processes.
Monitor assigned client deadlines and time budgets.
Escalate missing information, accounting problems, and potential time overruns promptly.
Maintain accurate, specific, and contemporaneous time entries.
Communicate professionally with U.S. clients when authorized.
Maintain workflows, deadlines, and review notes in ClickUp.
Create and improve accounting procedures and workpapers.

Required Experience
At least seven years of professional accounting experience.
At least three years working with U.S. accounting, bookkeeping, CAS, outsourced accounting, or public-accounting clients.
Experience handling multiple unrelated client files simultaneously.
Experience reviewing or correcting the work of other accountants or bookkeepers.
Advanced experience with QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Online Accountant.
Strong bank, credit card, loan, and balance-sheet reconciliation skills.
Strong understanding of accrual accounting and month-end close.
Ability to prepare and review adjusting journal entries.
Experience reviewing balance sheets and income statements for errors and unusual activity.
Strong Excel and Google Sheets skills.
Excellent written and spoken English.
Ability to explain accounting problems clearly to staff and management.
Proven ability to work independently, exercise judgment, and accept responsibility for results.
Reliable high-speed internet, a professional home workspace, and backup plans for internet and power interruptions.
Prior successful experience working a permanent U.S. night-shift schedule.

Preferred Experience
Philippine CPA designation.
NetSuite or other ERP experience.
Experience in a U.S. accounting firm or client accounting services practice.
Experience with construction, professional services, e-commerce, real estate, or multi-entity accounting.
Experience with payroll, sales tax, 1099s, and financial-report preparation.
Experience coaching or supervising remote accounting staff.
Experience using ClickUp, Google Workspace, and similar cloud-based systems.
Experience monitoring client time budgets or engagement profitability.

Working Hours
The regular schedule is Monday through Friday during U.S. Eastern business hours, beginning at approximately 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. We will consider an earlier or later start time once you have proven that you have the skills for this position.

Applicants must understand the effect of this schedule in the Philippines and be prepared to work it consistently. Preference will be given to candidates with successful long-term night-shift experience.

Compensation

$10-$25 Per Hour, depending on demonstrated experience, technical ability, review skills, and the results of the practical assessment.

This is a full-time, long-term independent-contractor position.

How Success Will Be Measured

The successful candidate will:

Complete assigned accounting accurately and on time.
Resolve difficult reconciliations efficiently.
Find accounting problems before they reach the firm’s owner.
Improve the quality of work completed by other staff.
Reduce repeated corrections and unnecessary rework.
Maintain clear preparer and reviewer responsibilities.
Escalate missing information and time overruns early.
Produce specific and supportable time entries.
Take ownership of problems.
Help other accountants become more capable and independent.
How to Apply

Begin your application with the exact phrase:

SENIOR ACCOUNTANT PLAYER-COACH

Applications that do not begin with this phrase will not be reviewed.

Please provide:

Your current résumé.
Your requested monthly compensation in Philippine pesos.
Your earliest available start date.
Your current employment status and whether you intend to retain another full-time position.
The largest number of U.S. clients you have handled simultaneously.
Your experience reviewing the work of other accountants.
The number and positions of employees whose work you have reviewed or supervised.
Your experience working U.S. Eastern hours.
Your QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Online Accountant experience.
Whether you are a Philippine CPA.

Please answer the following questions in your own words.

Question 1: Difficult Reconciliation

Describe the most difficult bank, credit card, loan, or balance-sheet reconciliation you personally resolved.

Explain:

What caused the problem.
How you identified the cause.
What corrections you made.
How long the work required.
What you changed to prevent the problem from recurring.
Question 2: Client Time Overrun

A client pays a fixed annual fee that supports approximately 25 hours of accounting work. The team has already recorded 60 hours, the books are still incomplete, and two accountants appear to have worked on the same accounting periods.

What would you do immediately? What would you review, what would you communicate to management, and how would you prevent the problem from recurring?

Question 3: Accounting Review

You review a bank reconciliation and find that it is $500 out of balance. You also discover that a credit card charge may already have been recorded as a bill.

Describe the exact steps you would take to investigate the problem, correct the books, and provide feedback to the staff accountant.

Question 4: Player-Coach Experience

Give a specific example of a situation in which you:

Personally completed difficult accounting work;
Reviewed or corrected another accountant’s work; and
Helped that accountant understand and prevent the same mistake.

Generic or purely theoretical answers will not be considered. We are looking for specific examples from your actual experience.