[Permanent WFH - Pooling] Senior US Accountant

Private Advertiser; Makati; Remote; PHP 900,000 - 1,200,000; Part time

Job summary

Private Advertiser is seeking a senior accountant for an independent contractor role to own the close for a portfolio of clients, review work, and lead a small team. You will own the close for a set of clients, review and manage a small team, run projects from start to finish, and help automate manual parts of accounting.

You will work directly with founders and finance teams, ensure US GAAP compliance, and mentor staff while delivering high-quality financial reporting for US startups and small

Qualifications

• 4 or more years in accounting, with at least 2 in an accounting firm, audit or multi-client role.
• Experience reviewing other people’s work and mentoring staff.
• Solid US GAAP: accruals, revenue recognition, prepaids, fixed assets and leases.
• Advanced QuickBooks Online. Experience with payroll and spend platforms like Gusto and Ramp.
• Strong Excel or Google Sheets. You build workbooks with linked formulas, not typed-in numbers.
• Comfortable running several client closes at once and hitting deadlines.
• Clear, simple written English.
• Being proactive to finding solutions to problems.
• Strong communication skills
• Professional skepticism. When something does not tie, you find out why instead of forcing it.

Responsibilities

• Prepare: Own the monthly close for a portfolio of clients: reconciliations, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, deferred revenue and financial statements.
• Review and manage people: Review work from staff and junior accountants before it goes to the client; manage a small team day-to-day.
• Lead projects: Lead cleanups, catch-up work, system migrations and new client onboarding.
• Automation and AI: Use AI tools like Claude and Codex in daily work, build automations and workflows.
• Work with clients: Be a point of contact for founders and finance teams; join close reviews.

Skills

US GAAP

Staff mentoring

Attention to detail

Strong communication

Proactive problem solving

English writing

Education

CPA (US or PH) or pursuing

Bachelor's in Accounting

Tools

QuickBooks Online

Gusto

Ramp

Excel/Google Sheets

Job description

About the Company

We are an accounting firm working with US startups and small businesses. We handle full-cycle accounting and financial reporting, and we lean hard on automation and AI to get it done faster without cutting corners.

The role

We are looking for a senior accountant who can prepare the work, review it and lead the people doing it. You will own the close for a set of clients, review and manage a small team, run projects from start to finish, and help us find new ways to automate the manual parts of accounting.

What you’ll do

Prepare

• Own the monthly close for a portfolio of clients: reconciliations, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, deferred revenue and financial statements.
• Keep bank, card, payroll and spend platform activity flowing cleanly into the general ledger.
• Prepare adjusting journal entries with clear support behind every line.
• Build workpapers that tie back to source reports and statements.
• Write short commentary on results that a founder can read in a minute.

Review and manage people

• Review work from staff and junior accountants before it goes to the client.
• Manage a small team day to day: assign work, set priorities and keep closes on schedule.
• Give clear review notes, coach on the why behind a correction, and help people grow.
• Catch repeat issues and fix them at the source.

Lead projects

• Lead cleanups, catch-up work, system migrations and new client onboarding.
• Scope the work, set the timeline and own the result.

Automation and AI

• Use AI tools like Claude and Codex in daily work, from reviewing ledgers and drafting commentary to building reconciliations and workpapers.
• Build and maintain automations and agentic workflows that take manual steps out of the close, such as transaction coding, reconciliation matching, journal entry imports and client requests.
• Check AI output with the same care you would give a teammate’s work.
• Share what works and help the team pick it up.

Work with clients

• Be a point of contact for founders and finance teams. Ask for what you need, explain findings plainly, and join close reviews.

What we’re looking for

• 4 or more years in accounting, with at least 2 in an accounting firm, audit or multi-client role.
• Experience reviewing other people’s work and managing or mentoring staff.
• Solid US GAAP: accruals, revenue recognition, prepaids, fixed assets and leases.
• Advanced QuickBooks Online. Experience with payroll and spend platforms like Gusto and Ramp.
• Strong Excel or Google Sheets. You build workbooks with linked formulas, not typed-in numbers.
• Comfortable running several client closes at once and hitting deadlines.
• Clear, simple written English.
• Being proactive to finding solutions to problems.
• Strong communication skills
• Professional skepticism. When something does not tie, you find out why instead of forcing it.

Preferred

• Strong AI and automation skills. Hands-on with Claude, Codex, ChatGPT or similar, and comfortable building workflows with tools like Zapier, Make or simple scripts.
• CPA (US or PH), or working toward it.
• E-commerce or startup accounting experience.
• System migrations or historical cleanups.

How we work

• Every number traces to support.
• Work gets reviewed before it goes to a client.
• If a task repeats, we look for a way to automate it.
• We write plainly. No jargon in anything a client reads.

This is an independent contractor role with complete take homepay, no deductions.