Staff Accountant

Blue Signal Search; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 25,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

Blue Signal Search is seeking a Staff Accountant for a part-time, on-site role in Austin, TX. You will own day-to-day accounting, from reconciliations to reporting, with a focus on modernizing processes and dashboards.

The position offers flexibility with potential hybrid opportunities and a collaborative, Austin-style culture. The ideal candidate balances hands-on accounting with strategic thinking, supports a smooth transition from the current resource, and ensures data integrity while

Qualifications

• Strong accounting fundamentals including reconciliations and journal entries.
• Experience with month-end close and producing financial reports.
• Ability to communicate with senior stakeholders clearly.

Responsibilities

• Own core accounting activities including reconciliations and journal entries.
• Maintain reliable financial records and assist monthly/quarterly closes.
• Develop dashboards and reporting views for leadership.
• Assist in evaluating and migrating to a new financial platform.
• Improve recurring workflows and automation with AI considerations.
• Collaborate with senior staff on financial strategy and ad hoc matters.
• Plan workload around month-end, quarter-end, and year-end cycles.

Skills

Accounting basics

Reconciliations

Journal entries

Close activities

Financial reporting

Stakeholder communication

Self-directed

Data privacy

AI & automation awareness

Systems modernization

Job description

Location: Primarily on-site in Austin, TX (Part-Time) – flexible with potential hybrid opportunities.

Our client is seeking a highly capable Staff Accountant for a distinctive part-time opportunity that goes well beyond traditional bookkeeping. This person will become the trusted owner of day-to-day accounting while also helping shape how the organization approaches financial reporting, technology, and recurring business processes. The role offers an unusual combination of hands-on accounting, meaningful autonomy, systems modernization, dashboard development, and thoughtful use of emerging technology. With a planned transition from the current accounting resource, this is an opportunity to learn the operation thoroughly, then make the function your own for the long term.

This Role Offers:

• A sustainable part-time schedule, typically approximately 15 to 20 hours per week, with predictable increases around month-end, quarter-end, and year-end.
• An opportunity to influence the next generation of the organization's accounting systems, reports, dashboards, and workflows.
• An established professional environment that values financial discipline while remaining practical, flexible, and open to better ways of working.
• The opportunity to build a long-term professional home while maintaining meaningful space for interests and commitments outside of work.
• A highly collaborative, modern professional environment with a distinctly Austin culture - smart, creative, casual, and relationship-driven.

Focus:

• Own core accounting activities including reconciliations, journal entries, account classification, and recurring close work.
• Maintain reliable financial records and turn accounting data into clear management reporting for firm leadership.
• Build practical dashboards and reporting views that make monthly and quarterly performance easier to understand.
• Help modernize the accounting environment by supporting evaluation, migration, and adoption of a new financial platform.
• Look for smarter ways to handle recurring finance workflows, reporting, costs, and administrative processes.
• Use AI and automation thoughtfully where they can improve efficiency while protecting confidential and sensitive information.
• Coordinate selected software, technology, and vendor administration needs that intersect with finance and office operations.
• Work directly with senior professionals on financial questions, priorities, and occasional client or vendor matters.
• Manage responsibilities independently after a structured transition from the current accounting resource.
• Plan workload around recurring deadlines, with additional availability during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end cycles.

Skill Set:

• Strong command of practical accounting, including reconciliations, journal entries, account classification, close activities, and financial reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to produce accurate, dependable financial information with strong attention to detail.
• Professional-services experience with the judgment and communication skills to work effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Background in public accounting, a larger professional-services organization, or a sophisticated legal environment is strongly preferred.
• Self-directed work style and the ability to manage an accounting function with limited day-to-day oversight.
• Comfort balancing firm accounting rules and data integrity with practical judgment in less structured business situations.
• Interest in improving systems, reporting, technology, and recurring workflows rather than simply maintaining the status quo.
• Comfort learning new accounting and business software and helping guide a system transition.
• Sound judgment around responsible use of AI, automation, data privacy, and confidential information.
• Long-term interest in a stable part-time role and the ability to support predictable peak periods around financial close cycles.

About Blue Signal:

Blue Signal is an award-winning, executive search firm specializing in finance & accounting recruiting. We have a strong reputation for finding top talent in private equity, asset management, financial services, FinTech, and accounting leadership. Learn more at bit.ly/3IKiOzm