Sr. Accounting Manager

Vertex Education; Chandler (AZ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertex Education is seeking a Senior Accounting Manager to lead one of its accounting regions, ensuring accurate financial information and scalable close processes for schools and clients. You will oversee Accounting Managers and their teams, drive system improvements, strengthen controls, and partner with cross-functional leaders to deliver timely, high-quality financial reporting.

Reporting to the Director of Accounting, you will play a key role in audits, client transitions, and strategic

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of progressive accounting experience, including significant people leadership and management of complex or multi-entity operations.
• Experience leading multiple accounting teams and building consistent operating practices under deadline-driven conditions.
• Experience with Sage Intacct.

Responsibilities

• Lead Month-End Close and financial reporting across teams and client portfolios.
• Develop accounting leaders, plan capacity, and ensure consistent practices.
• Strengthen controls, improve service delivery, and deliver timely financial information.
• Oversee audits, client transitions, and strategic accounting initiatives.
• Drive system improvements, automation, and cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

Accounting leadership

Financial reporting

People management

Sage Intacct

Tools

Sage Intacct

Job description

Be the one who makes a difference!

At Vertex Education we are a team of high achievers, courageous leaders, and passionate believers in changing lives through education. As a purpose‑led education services provider, our mission is destined to benefit many and yet it starts with just one person inspired to work together with us to make a memorable and meaningful difference for our clients, schools, students, and communities. Be the one who makes a difference-with us.

At Vertex Education, we are a team of high achievers, courageous leaders, and passionate believers in changing lives through education. As a purpose‑led education services provider, our mission is destined to benefit many, yet it starts with just one person inspired to work together with us to make a memorable and meaningful difference for our clients, schools, students, and communities. Be the one who makes a difference-with us.

As a Senior Accounting Manager, you will lead one of Vertex Education's two accounting regions and help ensure the financial integrity and operational excellence of the schools and clients we serve. You will establish a consistent and scalable close model, develop accounting leaders, resolve complex operational issues, and translate functional standards into effective execution across teams and systems. Through strong leadership and disciplined operations, you will strengthen controls, improve service delivery, and ensure clients receive accurate, timely, and dependable financial information.

Reporting to the Director of Accounting, you will serve as the principal operational leader for your assigned region and lead Accounting Managers and their teams. You will be accountable for regional service delivery, manager development, systems and process leadership, and the resolution of high‑risk accounting matters. You will also partner with functional leaders to strengthen processes, technology, controls, and service consistency across the organization, while escalating enterprise‑level risks and decisions to the Director of Accounting.

Month-End Close and Financial Reporting:

• Set the operating rhythm for monthly and annual close across teams, including close calendars, quality calibration, delivery metrics, workload planning, and continuity coverage.
• Ensure a consistent close model, review standards, and reporting practices are applied across all assigned teams and client portfolios.
• Resolve the most complex close and reporting issues; elevate material financial, control, or regulatory risks promptly.

Leadership and Talent Development:

• Lead Accounting Managers, Associate Accounting Managers, and senior individual contributors; build a strong leadership bench and ensure consistent manager practices.
• Own team capacity modeling, hiring plans, succession planning, and role deployment for the assigned operation.
• Coach managers on performance management, development planning, and team meeting cadence so expectations and feedback are consistent across teams.
• Partner with People Operations to recruit, onboard, and develop accounting leaders and staff.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable culture across teams aligned with Vertex Education's mission of changing lives through education.

Quality, Controls, and Compliance:

• Partner with the Director of Accounting to implement accounting policies, controls, reporting standards, and functional priorities.
• Monitor quality and control performance across teams; ensure control exceptions are fixed or escalated promptly and recurring issues are addressed at the root cause.
• Ensure team procedures, close checklists, and workpaper standards are documented, current, and applied consistently across teams.

Audit, Client Transitions, and Strategic Initiatives:

• Oversee audit readiness across teams and resolve the most complex audit issues with Accounting leadership and the client management team.
• Support major audits, complex client transitions, strategic initiatives, prospects, and renewals when accounting expertise is required.

Systems, Process Improvement, and Collaboration:

• Sponsor system improvements, automation, process redesign, and training that improve accounting accuracy, efficiency, and user adoption.
• Partner with functional leaders in AP, Payroll, Client Management, Financial Operations, Compliance, and Transformation to maintain clear end-to-end handoffs.
• Drive standardization and best-practice sharing across accounting teams.

Decision Making Authority:

Owns operational leadership across multiple accounting teams. Supports the Director in enterprise strategy, organizational design, or final policy governance.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience: Eight or more years of progressive accounting experience, including significant people leadership and management of complex or multi‑entity operations.
• Experience leading multiple accounting teams or managers and building consistent operating practices across a deadline‑driven accounting organization.
• Experience with Sage Intacct.

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