Accounting Manager

North Carolina Sound; Pikeville (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with match

Paid time off

Professional development support

Performance-based bonus

Job summary

North Carolina Sound is seeking an Accounting Manager to own the day-to-day accounting for a single operating company, including the monthly close, reporting, payroll oversight, and support for the annual audit. This is a hands-on role that partners with the regional finance team.

You'll lead project accounting—revenue recognition and job costing—and help build strong controls, budgets, and KPIs while collaborating on ERP implementations.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of progressive accounting experience with hands-on ownership of the monthly close.
• Strong command of GAAP, with fluency in reconciliations, accruals, and financial reporting.
• Experience running close and reporting across multiple entities, branches, or subsidiaries.
• Comfort with accounting systems (QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, ServiceTitan) and ability to learn new ones.
• Strong Excel and data-modeling skills; ability to bring structure to ambiguity without hand-holding.

Responsibilities

• Close & reporting: Run the monthly close and deliver fast, accurate flash reports.
• Project accounting: Manage revenue recognition and job costing for projects; inventory management and cycle counts where applicable.
• Reporting & forecasting: Prepare financial package and variance analysis; manage a 13-week cash flow forecast.
• Maintain and improve controls, budgets, and KPIs; ensure regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate with regional finance team on ERP and system implementations/integrations.
• Lead and develop accounting staff; ensure accurate payroll, AR, and AP.

Skills

GAAP mastery

Month-end close ownership

Financial reporting

Excel & data modeling

Forecasting

Team leadership

Education

CPA

Public accounting foundation

Tools

QuickBooks

Sage Intacct

ServiceTitan

Job description

North Carolina Sound

North Carolina Sound is a commercial technology and security provider serving North Carolina and South Carolina. Its focus is security, communications, and infrastructure systems for commercial and industrial operations, school districts, healthcare facilities, and state and local government. Locally owned and operating for more than 35 years, the company works from locations spanning the Piedmont Triad through eastern North Carolina to the coast. It continues to grow across both states.

North Carolina Sound

North Carolina Sound is a commercial technology and security provider serving North Carolina and South Carolina. Its focus is security, communications, and infrastructure systems for commercial and industrial operations, school districts, healthcare facilities, and state and local government. Locally owned and operating for more than 35 years, the company works from locations spanning the Piedmont Triad through eastern North Carolina to the coast. It continues to grow across both states.

The Role

On-Site

• Multiple U.S. Locations

Our Accounting Managers own the day-to-day accounting operation for a single operating company: the monthly close, internal and external reporting, controls, payroll oversight, and support of the annual audit. This is a hands-on, in-the-details role that partners closely with our regional finance team. Because our businesses are project-based, revenue recognition, job costing, and cash discipline sit at the center of the work. Scope and team size vary by operating company, and our recruiting team will walk you through the specifics when there is a match.

What You'll Own

• Close & reporting. Run the monthly close, deliver a fast and accurate flash, and continuously improve the speed and accuracy of the process.
• Project accounting. Manage revenue recognition and job costing for projects, and, where applicable, inventory management and cycle counts.
• Reporting & forecasting. Prepare the financial package and variance analysis, and manage a 13-week forward-looking cash flow forecast.
• Maintain and improve controls, budgets, and KPIs, and keep regulatory compliance clean.
• Work in the operating company's ERP and support system implementations and integrations alongside the regional finance team.
• Where a team exists, manage and develop the accounting staff; ensure accurate payroll, AR, and AP.

What We're Looking For

• Roughly 5 to 8 years of progressive accounting experience, with genuine hands-on ownership of the monthly close.
• Strong command of GAAP, with fluency in reconciliations, accruals, and financial reporting.
• Experience running close and reporting across multiple entities, branches, or subsidiaries.
• Comfort in accounting systems (our operating companies run tools such as QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, and ServiceTitan) with the ability to learn and work in new ones.
• Strong Excel and data-modeling skills, and the self-direction to bring structure to ambiguity without hand-holding.

Preferred: a public accounting foundation; project-based, construction, or inventory-heavy experience (job costing, WIP, cycle counts); prior experience supervising a small team; CPA.

Why North Carolina Sound

• A high-growth, PE-backed platform where accounting is close to the business and your work drives real operating decisions.
• The chance to build and strengthen finance processes as we scale across a growing set of companies.
• Competitive base salary and performance-based bonus, benchmarked to your market and the scope of the seat.
• Full health benefits, 401(k) with match, paid time off, and professional development support.