Job title: Accounting Supervisor
Type of employment: Full-time
Shift Schedule: 6:00 AM – 3:00 PM PHT (1-hour lunch)
We're looking for an Accounting Team Lead who will manage a team of accountants/bookkeepers while ensuring accurate, timely month-end close and high-quality financial reporting for professional services clients. This role is hands-on, reviewing month-end financials, solving complex accounting issues, building/improving Excel workbooks, and partnering closely with the U.S.-based manager to keep delivery consistent and scalable.
About the Employer:
The client is an accounting services firm that supports clients by building strong financial foundations, maintaining accurate books, and delivering reliable financial insights to guide business decisions, upholding high standards that they take pride in.
Company core values:
- Work-life balance
- Collaboration
- Personal Growth
- Family-like culture
- Not your average accounting firm
Objective of this role:
- Lead and scale a high-performing accounting team (currently 6, with growth potential), leveraging at least 2+ years of direct people management experience.
- Drive month-end excellence by ensuring accuracy and timeliness through rigorous review and technical problem-solving.
- Modernize and standardize workflows, templates, and sophisticated Excel models to ensure delivery consistency across a diverse client portfolio.
- Serve as a technical anchor and escalation point for complex accounting, reporting, and deep-dive forensic modeling needs.
- Maintain seamless alignment with the U.S. manager to meet aggressive deadlines and uphold the high-quality standards expected in commercial industries.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, coach, and mentor a team of 6, drawing on established management experience to support hiring and professional development as the firm grows.
- Review and approve comprehensive month-end financials, ensuring technical accuracy in reconciliations and reporting packages.
- Oversee accrual-based accounting for a portfolio primarily focused on commercial industries (marketing, tech, professional services), with a heavy emphasis on revenue recognition, job costing, and time tracking.
- Reverse-engineer and optimize complex, CAO-level Excel workbooks and financial models to improve reporting automation and scalability.
- Troubleshoot systemic accounting issues, identifying root causes in data flow or logic and implementing corrective processes.
- Ensure strict adherence to close timelines, quality controls, and standardized documentation across all client accounts.
- Collaborate with U.S. leadership on status updates, high-level escalations, and strategic performance improvements.
- Analyze productivity metrics and time-tracking data to support capacity planning, utilization forecasting, and delivery performance.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- 2+ years of proven leadership experience managing an accounting team within a firm environment (AURA/Outsourced Accounting/Fractional CFO).
- Deep Professional Services expertise, specifically regarding revenue recognition nuances, project-based accounting, and job costing.
- Expert-level Excel capability: Must be comfortable building, auditing, and reverse-engineering complex, multi-tab models and CAO-level workbooks.
- Strong accrual accounting foundation with experience across various commercial sectors like marketing, professional services, and tech.
- Proficiency with QuickBooks Online (QBO) and QuickBooks Desktop (QBD).
- Strategic problem-solver who can diagnose complex financial discrepancies and build scalable, practical solutions.
- Experience in delivery-focused environments, utilizing time-tracking platforms to manage team output and client profitability.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work synchronously with a U.S.-based manager.
Preferred skills and qualifications
- Experience leading or improving close processes (checklists, SOPs, templates, controls)
- Experience with multi-client accounting operations (outsourced/fractional accounting model)
- Familiarity with KPI-based team performance tracking (turnaround time, accuracy, utilization)
- Experience supporting process/system improvements across accounting workflows
