Senior Manager, Strategic Accounting Advisory

BDO USA; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO USA in Boston seeks an Experienced Manager, Strategic Projects within Accounting Advisory Services. You will manage full lifecycle of engagements, supervise staff, and maintain client relationships with regular updates to leadership.

You will lead discovery, apply GAAP knowledge, perform trial balance reconciliations, and understand accounting software packages. You will develop others and support business development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or Economics, required.
• MBA or other relevant advanced degree (Masters in Accountancy), preferred.
• Six (6) or more years of experience performing general accounting transactions and functions, required.
• Two (2) or more years of supervisory experience, preferred.
• Experience working with outsourced and/or delivery center operations, preferred.
• Consultative or business advisory experience, preferred.
• CPA certification, preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manages the full-life cycle of all assigned engagements by providing accounting expertise in all areas within the finance function.
• Performs complete trial balance reconciliations and applies accounting knowledge by properly recording transactions in a general ledger.
• Understands the technology packages clients are using to support their accounting/finance functions; can describe the major functions each system performs and knows how the system performs those functions.
• Facilitates effective discovery meetings with clients; uses open ended questions to identify what their objectives are and what related deliverables are expected from the engagement.
• Works with Strategic Projects leadership to learn to formulate recommendations to client leadership on technical accounting issues, financial accounting policies and procedures and financial management issues.
• Learns to manage conflict; proactively engages senior leadership when conflict arises.
• Gathers information necessary from the client to execute on engagements; maintains a running list of information that is needed and follows up to gather information that is missing; organizes this information so it is easily accessible for the team and the client as applicable and creates, develops, and maintains strong business relationships with clients, both internal and external.

Job description

BDO USA in Boston seeks an Experienced Manager, Strategic Projects within Accounting Advisory Services. You will manage full lifecycle of engagements, supervise staff, and maintain client relationships with regular updates to leadership.

You will lead discovery, apply GAAP knowledge, perform trial balance reconciliations, and understand accounting software packages. You will develop others and support business development.