Accounting Manager

The Accounting Manager is responsible for overseeing the daily accounting operations, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of financial data, and managing the accounting team. This role plays a critical part in ensuring financial integrity, compliance with relevant regulations, and timely financial reporting. The Accounting Manager will also work closely with senior management to provide insightful financial analysis and support strategic decision-making.

Responsibilities

• General Ledger: Oversee general ledger activities, including month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring accurate and timely reporting.

• Financial Reporting: Prepare and review monthly financial statements, management reports, and financial forecasts to provide actionable insights to senior management.

• Compliance: Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations, including audits and adherence to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

• Technical Accounting Research: Conduct research on complex accounting issues, including new accounting pronouncements, and assess their impact on the company’s financial statements. Provide guidance and recommendations for implementation of new standards (e.g., lease accounting, revenue recognition, etc.).

• Internal Controls: Assist in implementation and maintenance of a strong system of internal controls, ensuring accurate financial data and mitigating risks of fraud or error.

• Revenue Recognition: Prepare the accurate and timely recognition of revenue, ensuring compliance with revenue recognition standards (ASC 606). Partner with sales and operations to ensure correct recording of revenue transactions.

• Accounts Payable/Receivable: Oversee AP/AR processes, ensuring timely and accurate invoicing, collections, and payments.

• Inventory Management: Oversee and monitor inventory accounting processes, including physical inventory counts, inventory reconciliations, and valuation methods. Ensure proper cost of goods sold (COGS) calculations and reporting of inventory levels.

• Lease Accounting: Ensure compliance with lease accounting standards (ASC 842), including maintaining accurate records of leases, calculating right-of-use assets, and lease liabilities, and ensuring proper amortization schedules.

• Audits: Coordinate external audits and provide necessary documentation and support for the completion of audits.

• System Improvements: Identify opportunities for process improvement and automation within accounting systems to enhance efficiency and accuracy.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field. 

• Experience: 6+ years of total accounting experience.  The successful candidate will have a blend of industry experience, preferably at a mid-sized or large public company, and public accounting experience, ideally from a Big 4 accounting firm.

• Technical Skills: Proficiency with accounting software (e.g., Xero) and advanced Microsoft Excel skills. Strong understanding of GAAP, particularly in areas like revenue recognition (ASC 606), lease accounting (ASC 842), and equity accounting. 

• Soft Skills: Excellent organizational, and communication skills, with the ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

• Attention to Detail: Strong analytical skills with a high level of accuracy in financial reporting and data management.

• Problem-Solving: Ability to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve accounting discrepancies and process inefficiencies.

What Makes You Standout

• CPA certified.

• Experience with robotics or manufacturing companies.

• Experience with the IPO process or working in a newly public company is a significant plus. 

• Familiarity with SOX compliance and financial reporting for public companies is highly desirable.

Hiring locations

Currently, we are only hiring US and Canada residents, even for remote jobs.

More about us

Serve Robotics is the team that created the Postmates delivery robot and brought it to life in LA, completing tens of thousands of deliveries in LA’s busiest neighborhoods. Now we're an independent company growing rapidly in order to connect people with what they need via robots designed to serve people.

We are proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

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