Senior Accountant​/Accounting Manager

(Remote | US Clients)
Experience: 5–10+ years (judgment matters more than tenure)
Reports to: Head of Accounting

Monterra is not a bookkeeping firm. We work with multi-location operators and founders who rely on their numbers to make real decisions.

This role is for someone who:

• Notices when numbers don’t make sense
• Pushes back on bad data or bad assumptions
• Takes responsibility for accuracy and clarity
• Is comfortable being accountable for outcomes, not just tasks

If you are looking for a role where you “prepare and escape,” this will not be a fit.

You will own the quality of accounting output for a portfolio of US-based clients.

That includes:

• Reviewing monthly financials for internal consistency and accuracy
• Identifying misclassifications, timing issues, and missing accruals
• Flagging issues before they reach senior review
• Explaining variances and trends in plain English
• Pushing back on incomplete or incorrect client inputs
• Enforcing scope, process, and deadlines
• Working independently without constant direction

You are expected to think like a controller, even if the title is Senior Accountant.

In this role, “senior” does not mean:

• Years of experience alone
• Managing people Knowing every rule by memory

It does mean:

• You sanity-check your own work
• You notice when results don’t align with reality
• You raise issues even when it’s uncomfortable
• You can explain why something matters, not just what happened

• Oversee, communicate & be responsible for a group of our clients to ensure that they are well-serviced from A-Z and that they are kept satisfied
• Prepare & complete year-end financial statements and present them to our clients
• Assist in onboarding new clients by helping to clean up messy books
• Review the day-to-day work performed by others to ensure that everything is on track
• Be accountable for the quality and timeliness of all tasks related to group of clients that are assigned to you
• Assist with some of our virtual CFO services, such as budgeting, cash flow projections, KPI reports, consolidations and other miscellaneous management reports that may be required by our clients
• Assist with bookkeeping & sales tax related tasks

You should have most of the following:

• 5+ years in accounting, audit, or controllership roles
• Experience reviewing others’ work (formally or informally)
• Strong understanding of accrual accounting and financial statements
• Exposure to multi-entity or operational businesses
• Comfort working with US-based clients and teams
• Excellent written English (clear, direct, professional)
• CPA or similar designation very helpful but not required
• You believe in delivering awesome customer service and you have experience in a customer-facing role
• You are a problem solver
• You have experience creating budgets, cash-flow projections and consolidations

Audit, accounting manager, or shared services leadership backgrounds are a strong plus.

Please do not apply if:

• You primarily “follow instructions” rather than question them
• You wait to be told when something looks wrong You are uncomfortable pushing back on clients or colleagues
• You rely on escalation instead of judgment
• You are looking for a training or junior role

This is an accountability role.

In your first 90 days, success looks like:

• Fewer issues reaching senior review
• Clear written explanations accompanying your work
• Problems identified early, not after the fact
• Increased confidence from US reviewers in your output Reduced rework and back-and-forth

Speed matters — but accuracy and judgment matter more.

We are intentionally building a global accounting team where:

• Judgm…