Accounting Manager

Accounting Manager

Full Time Regular Professional, Long Beach, CA, US

We are seeking a highly technical, hands‑on accounting leader to serve as a key partner to the Corporate Controller within a public company during a critical stage of growth and integration. The ideal candidate brings a strong blend of technical accounting depth with the ability to manage a team, innovate to enhance efficiencies, strengthen controls, and help establish the foundation for a best‑in‑class finance function.

• Review and provide quality oversight of accounting work across key balance sheet and P&L areas, including AP, PPE/fixed assets, and prepaid accounts.
• Serve as a point of contact for external auditors and help drive overall audit readiness across the organization.
• Support process improvement, automation, and new system implementation initiatives leveraging AI tools to improve efficiency, reporting, or workflow design.
• Support and oversee the monthly close and consolidation process, ensuring timely, accurate, and reliable reporting.
• Perform high‑level flux and balance sheet analysis, identifying key drivers, unusual trends, and areas requiring follow‑up.
• Oversee the implementation and ongoing administration of share‑based compensation (ASC 718).
• Lead the ongoing management of ASC 842 accounting infrastructure & process buildout.
• Review inventory‑related vendor invoices through the three‑way match process (PO, receiving, invoice).
• Prepare and record journal entries as needed to support an accurate and timely month‑end close.
• Partner with the Controller to help manage, mentor, and develop the accounting team.

• Strong command of U.S. GAAP with meaningful exposure to complex accounting areas such as ASC 842 and ASC 718.
• Comfortable operating in a hands‑on, fast‑paced environment with shifting priorities and a high degree of accountability.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working within ERP systems such as Microsoft d365 in an evolving environment.
• Demonstrated people‑management experience, including supervising, mentoring, and developing accounting staff.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in accounting.
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience in a National public accounting firm.

A reasonable salary estimate based on education, experience, and geographic location is: $120,000-$150,000.

is an equal‑opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances. Our management is dedicated to ensuring that we fulfill this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruitment advertising, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.

The above-noted job description is not intended to describe, in detail, the multitude of tasks that may be assigned but rather to give the incumbent a general sense of the responsibilities and expectations of his/her position. As the nature of business demands change so, too, may the essential functions of this position.