Accounting Manager

Creative Financial Staffing, LLC; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid schedule

Remote work currently available

Growth opportunities toward Controller

Job summary

Creative Financial Staffing, LLC is seeking an experienced Accounting Manager for a growing nonprofit with a multi-entity environment in Denver. The role emphasizes audits, financial reporting accuracy, and process improvements in a collaborative setting.

Ideal candidates have strong accrual accounting, multi-entity experience, and the ability to lead, develop processes, and support senior leadership; remote work is currently available on a hybrid schedule.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of progressive accounting experience.
• Experience in a multi-entity environment.
• Hands-on experience using Yardi.
• Strong understanding of accrual-based accounting.
• Experience performing account reconciliations and balance sheet reviews.
• Ability to analyze trial balances and identify discrepancies.
• Advanced Excel skills for in-depth reconciliations and financial analysis.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and support multiple audits occurring throughout the year.
• Respond to auditor requests and provide required documentation.
• Upload and manage supporting information through auditor portals.
• Reconcile trial balances and supporting schedules.
• Research and resolve audit-related discrepancies.
• Help ensure ongoing audit readiness across all entities.
• Review monthly financial statements for accuracy and completeness.
• Analyze financial results and investigate unusual variances.
• Review bank reconciliations and supporting schedules.
• Validate depreciation, loan activity, accruals, and journal entries.
• Identify and correct accounting inaccuracies.
• Perform detailed account reconciliations and balance sheet reviews.
• Investigate general ledger activity and unusual account balances.
• Resolve intercompany accounting issues.
• Analyze loan activity and expense classifications.
• Prepare and recommend adjusting and reclassification entries.
• Ensure financial data ties between Excel and the accounting system.
• Review work completed by accounting staff.
• Provide guidance and coaching to team members.
• Help improve accounting procedures and internal controls.
• Support departmental growth and future team development initiatives.

Skills

Multi-entity accounting

Accrual accounting

Account reconciliations

Balance sheet analysis

Excel proficiency

Audit readiness

Tools

Yardi

Job description

Non-profit Accounting Manager

Compensation: $100,000 - $110,000
Location: Denver, CO (Hybrid Schedule)

About the Opportunity

Our client is seeking an experienced Accounting Manager to join a growing non profit organization with a complex multi-entity accounting environment. This Accounting Manager role is critical to strengthening audit readiness, improving financial reporting accuracy, and supporting ongoing finance operations initiatives.

The ideal Accounting Manager will bring strong accrual accounting expertise, experience working within multi-entity organizations, and the ability to perform detailed account analysis and reconciliations. This position offers significant visibility with senior leadership and a defined path toward a future Controller-level opportunity.

Why Join This Organization?

• Opportunity to grow into a Controller role
• Join a collaborative, close-knit accounting team
• Meaningful autonomy and ownership of accounting processes
• Exposure to complex multi-entity accounting and audit environments
• Flexible work environment with remote work currently available
• Partner closely with executive leadership during a period of operational growth and process improvement

Position Overview

The Accounting Manager will spend a significant portion of their time supporting recurring audits, reviewing financial statements, investigating balance sheet activity, and ensuring the integrity of financial reporting across multiple entities.

As the Accounting Manager becomes established in the role, responsibilities will expand to include oversight of accounting staff and continued development of accounting processes and controls.

Key Responsibilities

Audit Support & Audit Readiness

• Coordinate and support multiple audits occurring throughout the year
• Respond to auditor requests and provide required documentation
• Upload and manage supporting information through auditor portals
• Reconcile trial balances and supporting schedules
• Research and resolve audit-related discrepancies
• Help ensure ongoing audit readiness across all entities

Financial Statement Review & Analysis

• Review monthly financial statements for accuracy and completeness
• Analyze financial results and investigate unusual variances
• Review bank reconciliations and supporting schedules
• Validate depreciation, loan activity, accruals, and journal entries
• Identify and correct accounting inaccuracies

Account Reconciliations & Balance Sheet Analysis

• Perform detailed account reconciliations and balance sheet reviews
• Investigate general ledger activity and unusual account balances
• Resolve intercompany accounting issues
• Analyze loan activity and expense classifications
• Prepare and recommend adjusting and reclassification entries
• Ensure financial data accurately ties between Excel and the accounting system

Team Leadership & Process Improvement

• Review work completed by accounting staff
• Provide guidance and coaching to team members
• Help improve accounting procedures and internal controls
• Support departmental growth and future team development initiatives

Qualifications

Required

• Minimum 5 years of progressive accounting experience
• Experience working in a multi-entity accounting environment
• Hands-on experience using Yardi
• Strong understanding of accrual-based accounting
• Experience performing account reconciliations and balance sheet reviews
• Ability to analyze trial balances and identify discrepancies
• Advanced Excel skills with the ability to perform in-depth reconciliations and financial analysis

Preferred

• Prior Accounting Manager experience
• Experience leading, mentoring, or reviewing the work of others
• Property management, real estate, senior living, or multi-location accounting experience
• Experience supporting external audits

Ideal Candidate Profile

The successful Accounting Manager will be a hands-on accounting professional who enjoys solving complex accounting issues and improving financial accuracy. This individual should be comfortable rolling up their sleeves, working through detailed reconciliations, and collaborating with team members in a supportive and professional manner.

The organization values individuals who:

• Take initiative
• Communicate thoughtfully and respectfully
• Thrive in collaborative environments
• Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Have a passion for continuous improvement
• Are mission-driven

Career Growth

This Accounting Manager position offers a clear opportunity for advancement as the organization continues to evolve its finance structure. High-performing individuals will have the opportunity to take on broader leadership responsibilities and potentially progress into a Controller-level role in the future.

Compensation: $100,000 - $110,000
Employment Type: Full-Time