Remote Cleanup Accountant: Turn Messy Books into Clarity

breakwater accounting + advisory corp; Wilmington (DE); Remote; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Five weeks of PTO

Benefits

Collaborative, supportive team

Challenging accounting work

Job summary

Breakwater Accounting + Advisory is seeking a Cleanup Manager who loves turning messy financials into clean, trustworthy books. You’ll investigate root causes, reconstruct activity, and hand off clear schedules to the ongoing accounting team.

This full-time, remote role requires a Bachelor's in Accounting and 5+ years of high-level accounting experience, with expert QuickBooks Online skills and a track record of cleaning up messy records.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting is required.
• 5+ years of high-level accounting, audit, or full-cycle bookkeeping experience.
• Expert-level QuickBooks Online proficiency.
• Strong understanding of balance sheets and accounting concepts.
• Experience cleaning up messy or inaccurate financials.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and explain issues to non-accountants.

Responsibilities

• Dig into messy financial records to understand what happened and why.
• Trace transactions to uncover errors and broken processes.
• Develop cleanup plans and work through them to completion.
• Reconstruct financial activity when records are incomplete.
• Reconcile major balance sheet accounts and substantiate numbers.
• Create clean handoffs and documentation for ongoing accounting teams.

Skills

Excellent investigative instincts

Problem-solving

Focused and thorough

Communicating complex issues

Balance sheet understanding

Experience cleaning up financials

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Tools

QuickBooks Online

Excel

Xero

Dext

Ramp

BILL

Gusto

ACS/Realm

Job description

Breakwater Accounting + Advisory is seeking a Cleanup Manager who loves turning messy financials into clean, trustworthy books. You’ll investigate root causes, reconstruct activity, and hand off clear schedules to the ongoing accounting team.

This full-time, remote role requires a Bachelor's in Accounting and 5+ years of high-level accounting experience, with expert QuickBooks Online skills and a track record of cleaning up messy records.