Senior Manager, SEC Reporting & Accounting Operations; CPA), Path to Owning -K

• Senior manager seat on a small accounting team, at a public company of fewer than 30 people
• Reports to the Corporate Controller and trains side by side with the SVP of Finance
• The plan: about six months learning the filings, then taking over internal and external reporting in the second half of 2027
• On site five days a week in Montgomery County, MD, with a flexible start between 7:00 and 9:00 AM ET
• $135,000 to $180,000 base, plus an annual bonus and stock options

The whole company is built around one product, and its launch is expected over the next two years. The factory is already built and producing ahead of launch, with room for at least $300 million a year in sales. You would join before the launch, learn the filings from the person who prepares them today, and own the reporting as the company goes to market.

Everyone is on site, and everyone does the work. The company is small enough that the CEO sees your work, and the team steps in wherever the work is, whatever the job description says. The pace picks up as the launch gets closer, and the people who do best here enjoy that.

• SEC reporting first: the schedules and support behind every 10-K and 10-Q, then drafting the filings
• The monthly, quarterly and year-end close, with journal entries and reconciliations you prepare yourself
• Technical accounting calls on leases, equity awards and long-lived assets
• SOX controls and day-to-day work with the external auditors
• A new ERP going live in January: help design how the close runs in it and bring more of the filing work in-house
• Hands-on help with whatever the accounting team needs that week

• You enjoy small companies and would rather know how every account works than review someone else's summary
• You are a CPA who started in audit and wants more ownership than a big company's silo allows
• You want to be in the office with a small team, close to the decisions
• You see a gap and fill it without waiting to be asked

If you want a remote or hybrid schedule, a narrow lane, or a seat where you only review and never prepare, this is not your role.

• Five or more years in accounting, starting in audit at a public accounting firm (Big 4 or national firm ideal) before moving into industry
• Hands-on SEC reporting: you have prepared or audited 10-K and 10-Q filings
• SOX and a strong command of U.S. GAAP
• A close you ran yourself: entries, reconciliations and balance sheet accounts
• Time at, or auditing, a company that makes a physical product
• Inventory or cost accounting
• An ERP implementation or migration

• Base salary: $135,000 to $180,000, depending on experience
• Annual performance bonus and stock options
• Platinum PPO medical with no in-network deductible, dental with orthodontics for adults and kids, and vision
• A 401(k) match that vests immediately, life insurance at two times salary, and short- and long-term disability
• 15 vacation days to start, plus sick time, 8 paid holidays and 2 floating holidays

Pave Talent and our client are equal opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.