PE-Backed Growth Accounting Manager (Hybrid)

Insight Global; Sandy Springs (GA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking an Accounting Manager to lead the finance and accounting function in a private equity backed, high growth environment. You will oversee AP/AR/GL, financial reporting, and cash management, driving close processes and ensuring GAAP compliance.

You will mentor staff, partner with cross-functional teams, and push for process improvements, ERP integration, and stronger internal controls to enable strategic decision making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, CPA preferred.
• 7-10 years of experience in accounting preferably with highly acquisitive businesses
• 3+ years of management experience and natural leadership skills
• 5+ years of experience owning the monthly/annual close process
• 7+ years of full-cycle, hands-on accounting experience
• Proficient with WIP/POC accounting
• Private Equity experience with a focus on growth via M&A
• Thorough knowledge of GAAP and standard accounting procedures
• Strong ERP experience including implementation and upgrade experience
• Ability to consistently meet deadlines
• Must work four days on-premises, one day remote.

Responsibilities

• Oversee AP, AR, General Ledger Accounting, Financial Reporting, and Cash Management.
• Producing and analyzing monthly, quarterly, and year-end financial statements and work papers including documentation on both a consolidated level and branch level.
• Provide direct oversight of corporate accounting staff at close including review of journal entries, oversight of account reconciliations, and review of account fluctuations from historical actuals and forecast.
• Assisting with the annual budget process and pro-forma budgets for recent acquisitions.
• Comfortably lead a team of direct reports that will incrementally grow as the business scales.
• Assign duties and monitor work of staff for accuracy and conformance to policies and procedures.
• Support the annual audit process and the implementation and maintenance of internal financial controls, procedures, and remediation plans in response to audit findings.
• Proactively seek opportunities to improve financial performance through reduced business expenses, improved cash flows and near and mid-term business decisions.
• Drive process improvement initiatives focused on the efficiency and effectiveness of the accounting function by eliminating lower value, manual processes through simplification and root cause investigation.
• Possess management skills to plan, organize and execute responsibilities for accurate and timely completion of financial reporting.
• Ability to communicate and develop working relationships with others inside and outside of the company.
• Partner with other functions of the business to grow accounting mind share with key stakeholders and find resolutions beneficial for both the business and the accounting operations.
• Comfortable being an entrepreneur in a highly ambiguous environment with minimal oversight.
• Assist with an ERP integration project and additional process improvement projects.

Skills

Team leadership

GAAP

Cash management

Financial reporting

Budgeting

Audit support

Process improvement

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's in Accounting

CPA preferred

Tools

ERP Systems

Job description

Insight Global is seeking an Accounting Manager to lead the finance and accounting function in a private equity backed, high growth environment. You will oversee AP/AR/GL, financial reporting, and cash management, driving close processes and ensuring GAAP compliance.

You will mentor staff, partner with cross-functional teams, and push for process improvements, ERP integration, and stronger internal controls to enable strategic decision making.