Accounting Manager

Engagement Manager — Client Accounting & Finance Operations

Client-facing title:
Accounting Manager

Employment type:

Full-time, W-2 (Liv Data LLC)

Location:

Liv Data — Jersey City, NJ, with several days per week on-site in Newark, NJ at the assigned client

Reports to:

John Silver stein, Founder & Principal

Benefits:
Unlimited PTO, 401(k), medical / dental / vision, CPA license and CPE reimbursement

Liv Data LLC is a finance and accounting consulting and advisory firm built by operators. Our careers span Fortune 500 enterprises, private equity‑backed businesses, and high‑growth ventures, in roles from Controller to CFO. We built the firm on a simple premise: finance should be a strategic driver, not a reporting factory.

We deliver across three pillars — Run (finance operations), Transform (FP&A and automation), and Advise (CFO office leadership and strategic oversight) — for mid‑market, private equity‑backed, and high‑growth companies. Depending on the mandate, we either run a client’s CFO office outright or augment an existing finance team with senior capability it does not have in place. Engagements are staffed as teams;

it is common for several Liv Data professionals to be working a single client at once.

Clients come to us for faster closes, cleaner controls, and decision‑grade reporting, and they stay because we operate as an extension of their leadership team rather than as a vendor.

The firm is led directly by its Principals, and this role is a direct extension of their work. You will not be buried in an org chart or handed off to a delivery manager. You will work alongside the people who set firm strategy, price the engagement, and own the client relationship — with the standing and support that comes with representing them on the ground.

The Engagement Manager is a core part of how Liv Data delivers Run — finance and accounting operations. You own the accounting function for an assigned client, carry the client‑facing title of Accounting Manager, and run the full accounting cycle with the firm’s full delivery model behind you.

That model is what separates this seat from an in‑house accounting manager role. You are not doing all of it alone. On every engagement, regardless of client, you work with two things the firm brings with you:

• Liv Data’s technology stack — agentic AI and automation across procure‑to‑pay and order‑to‑cash (Hyperbots), reporting and analytics (Aleph, Snowfire, our BI pipelines), layered on top of the client’s own ERP. You are the human in the loop: the platform absorbs the volume, and you own the review, the judgment, and the control environment around it.
• Liv Data’s offshore delivery team
  , which you direct on transactional execution, reconciliation preparation, and close support. Managing that team is part of the job on day one, not something you grow into.

You bring controllership, judgment, and the credibility to hold a client relationship. The technology and the offshore team give you leverage most accounting managers never get. That combination is the offering — and you are the person who makes it real at the client.

Our current lead engagement is with a specialty materials manufacturer working through a headquarters relocation and a finance‑team transition. This is an augmentation mandate — the client’s team stays in place as process owners, and you supply the senior accounting ownership they are missing. It is build‑and‑stabilize work, not maintain‑the‑status‑quo: within the first six months, the goal is a close the client trusts, running on documented processes that do not depend on any one person.

• Own the monthly close: journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, and timely, accurate financial statements in accordance with US GAAP.
• Run day‑to‑day operations across AP, AR, general ledger, and payroll, ensuring transactions are recorded completely and correctly.
• Serve as the primary accounting point of contact for client leadership; prepare and present monthly reporting, KPIs, and variance analysis.
• Build, document, and enforce accounting policies, SOPs, and internal controls — stabilizing the function through periods of…