Financial Accounting Lead

Consultative Search Group; California; Hybrid; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Consultative Search Group seeks a Financial Accounting Lead to guide month-end close, GL maintenance, and financial reporting. You’ll prepare statements, perform analyses, and manage reconciliations across entities and currencies in a fast-paced professional services environment.

Hybrid work options available with in-office presence, requiring strong technical accounting skills, GAAP knowledge, and meticulous attention to detail to support audits and leadership reviews.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field required.
• Minimum 5 years in General Ledger accounting, corporate or professional services preferred.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to interpret data and analyze variances.
• Solid knowledge of cash and accrual accounting; attention to detail essential.

Aufgaben

• Perform detailed general ledger and bank reconciliations; resolve issues.
• Balance and maintain general ledger across entities and currencies; FX remeasurement.
• Maintain ledger structure, mappings across books and entities.
• Prepare monthly financial statements, reports, and analyses for leadership.
• Support external audits with workpapers and responses; maintain documentation.

Kenntnisse

General Ledger

Bank Reconciliations

Financial Analysis

Journal Entries

Multi-Entity Reconciliation

GAAP Knowledge

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field

Jobbeschreibung

A global professional services firm seeks a Financial Accounting Lead to join their dynamic team. This role will be responsible for a variety of assignments, including preparing financial statements and schedules, performing financial analysis, and completing complex accounting duties and projects, while executing and actively participating in the monthly close process, including journal entries, subledger-to-GL reconciliations, result reviews, and on-schedule completion of all activities. Please note that this role may be eligible for a flexible working schedule that allows for a hybrid and in-office presence.

Responsibilities

• Performing detailed general ledger and bank reconciliations, identifying discrepancies, and independently resolving issues through research, adjustments, and process corrections
• Maintaining and balancing the general ledger across multiple entities, books, and currencies, ensuring accounts are fully supported, reconciled, and aligned with transactional activity, including FX remeasurement and related entries
• Managing ongoing maintenance of the general ledger structure (books, entities, account mappings), applying a strong understanding of book structure and mapping logic to ensure consistent, compliant transaction recording
• Preparing monthly financial statements, management reports, and trend analyses, ensuring accurate, complete, and timely information for leadership review, tax and statutory filings, and year-end audits
• Maintaining accounting records and audit-ready documentation (reconciliations, schedules, system reports) and supporting external audits by preparing required workpapers and responses
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that firm retains

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Accounting, business or related field
• A minimum of five (5) years of relevant experience in General Ledger accounting, preferably in a corporate or professional services environment
• A minimum of five (5) years of cumulative experience
• Exhibit demonstrated analytical skills, with the ability to interpret financial data, analyze variances, and perform detailed account reconciliations
• Possess advanced knowledge of accounting principles, including both cash and accrual accounting
• Display high level of attention to detail, with the ability to review and proofread work to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance