Accounting Services Director

Eightx - Fractional CFOs for FMCG Brands; Manila; Remoto; PHP 7.682.000 - 11.524.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Fully remote

Generous time off

Leadership path to partner

Descrizione del lavoro

Eightx seeks an Accounting Services Director to lead a growing team of accountants and bookkeepers. You will own the accounting processes end-to-end, write SOPs, and uphold high-quality close for multiple clients across global ecommerce brands.

You will partner with fractional CFOs, mentor staff, and drive process improvements, including automation. This is a fully remote role with overlap with North American hours.

Competenze

• 7+ years in accounting, including 3+ years leading a team
• Multi-client experience: public practice, outsourced accounting, or controller across several entities
• Deep technical accounting: accrual-basis, leases, equity transactions, deferred revenue, FX revaluation
• Strong Xero and QuickBooks Online skills
• Ecommerce accounting experience: Shopify, Amazon Seller or Vendor Central, multi-currency
• Proven ability to build processes and SOPs that others follow
• Fluent business English, written and spoken; comfortable on camera with clients
• Ability to coach and mentor; lead teams across time zones

Mansioni

• Lead and develop the accounting team; hire and grow staff
• Own month-end close across all clients within 2–10 business days
• Set standards for balance sheet accounts and ensure accuracy
• Manage client communications; explain issues clearly
• Coordinate year-end with tax accountants and CPA firms
• Write and maintain SOPs, checklists, and close calendar
• Identify automation opportunities and work with AI team
• Handle complex issues: leases, equity transactions, intercompany, multi-entity
• Oversee multi-currency accounting, FX revaluation, and reconciliations
• Ensure compliance with tax nexus rules (US/UK/EU)

Conoscenze

Leadership

Team management

Multi-client accounting

Xero

QuickBooks Online

Ecommerce accounting

Financial close & consolidation

Client communication

Strumenti

Xero

QuickBooks Online

Descrizione del lavoro

Job Description

Accounting Services Director

We are the fractional CFO and finance department for fast-growing ecommerce and consumer brands in the US, Canada, the UK, Europe and Australia, mostly doing $3M to $150M in revenue. Our HQ and a managing partner are in Melbourne, and our team works across Canada, the US, England, Switzerland, India and the Philippines. We have one goal for every client: build a Bankable Brand. That is a business whose profit, cash and forecasts hold up when a lender, an investor, a buyer or the board tests them. As you might expect of a finance company, we work really hard when we need to, but we don't work hard just for the sake of it. We don't miss our kids' concerts, we work out during the day, and we usually sign off early on Fridays.

About the position

If you want to hand in the reports and the bank recs and log off, this isn't the job. If you're an accountant who can see why a clean close is worth real money to a founder on the day someone tries to buy their company, keep reading. That's who we want to talk to.

Why accounting is an enterprise value job

Every client we serve is building toward one thing: a business that's worth more because a buyer, a lender or an investor can trust its numbers. The arithmetic is simple.

Value = Earnings × Multiple × Multiple = Growth + Quality − Risk

Our fractional CFOs work on earnings and growth. Your team owns the other two terms: quality and risk. A buyer discounts whatever they can't verify. A Shopify clearing account nobody has tied out, inventory that's never been validated against the books, a loan with no schedule, prepaids sitting in expense. Each one is information risk, and in a sale or a raise, information risk becomes valuation risk. So when your team closes the month properly, you aren't just producing a report. You're protecting the multiple. That's how we want this role to think about the work, and it's how you'll teach your team to think about it.

About the role

We have a team of about 8 to 10 accountants and bookkeepers, and we're growing really fast. We need someone to lead, coach, train and manage that team, and to own our accounting processes end to end. You'll be the senior accounting authority at Eightx. You'll write the SOPs, set the quality bar, solve the genuinely hard problems (leases, equity transactions, multi-currency, inventory), and be available to your team, our CFOs and our clients when something gets complicated. You'll jump on calls with clients and walk them through issues in plain English. You'll work hand in hand with our fractional CFOs. They turn clean books into decisions. You make sure the books are clean enough to decide on.

Remote, anywhere in the world, with overlap with North American hours.

What you'll do

Lead the team

• Manage, coach and develop our accountants and bookkeepers, and help us hire the next ones
• Review work before it reaches a CFO or a client, give direct feedback, and hold the standard
• Plan capacity across the portfolio so deadlines are met without heroics
• Run the accounting team's weekly meeting, clear blockers, and fix recurring problems at the root

Own the close

• Own month-end across every client, closed accurately within two to ten business days
• Sign off on close files, reconciliations and working papers
• Set and enforce standards for balance sheet accounts: fixed assets, loans, prepaids, accruals, deferred revenue
• Lead variance review across revenue streams (Shopify, Amazon, wholesale) and expense lines, and explain anything that looks wrong before a client asks
• Coordinate year-end with tax accountants and CPA firms

Build the system

• Write and maintain the SOPs, checklists and close calendar the whole team runs on
• Standardize charts of accounts, working paper templates, weekly flash reports and monthly packages
• Find where automation and AI can take work off the team, and make it happen with our AI team

Solve the hard problems

• Lease accounting, equity transactions (SAFEs, convertibles, new rounds), intercompany and multi-entity work
• Multi-currency: FX revaluation, unrealized gains and losses, cross-currency reconciliations
• Inventory and COGS: reconciliations, landed cost, year-end adjustments
• Sales tax, VAT and nexus questions across the US, UK and EU, researched and escalated to the right people

Be in front of clients

• Act as the senior accounting contact for clients and their CFOs
• Join client calls, explain complex issues simply, and follow up with clear notes and action items
• Flag risks early. If something is going to be late or wrong, the CFO and the client hear it from you first

What you must have

• 7+ years in accounting, including 3+ years leading a team of accountants or bookkeepers and reviewing their work
• Multi-client experience: public practice, an outsourced accounting or client accounting services firm, or a controller seat across several entities
• Deep technical accounting: accrual-basis accounting, leases, equity transactions, deferred revenue, FX revaluation
• Strong Xero and QuickBooks Online skills
• Ecommerce accounting experience: Shopify, Amazon Seller or Vendor Central, and multi-currency
• A record of building processes and SOPs that other people actually follow
• Fluent business English, written and spoken, and you're comfortable on camera with clients
• The ability to coach and empathize. You grow people by teaching them, not by redoing their work
• You can be based anywhere in the world, with enough overlap with North American business hours to join client calls and lead a team across time zones

Nice to have

• CPA, CA or ACCA
• Audit, quality of earnings or due diligence experience
• NetSuite, A2X, Dext, Hubdoc, Bill.com, Rippling or Gusto
• You've grown an accounting team before and know what breaks at 10 people and at 25

What you'll get in return

• A competitive salary benchmarked to your market, plus a performance bonus. We share the range on the first call
• Fully remote, from anywhere in the world, on a global team: our HQ and a managing partner are in Melbourne, and the team is spread across Canada, the US, England and Switzerland
• Generous time off, plus a company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Year
• A leadership seat in a firm that's growing fast, with a real path to partner
• Work across a portfolio of ecommerce and consumer brands doing up to $150M, so you'll see more in a year than most controllers see in five

Eightx is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.