Job description

At Ascend, we believe it’s the story behind the numbers that determines success. People and empathy are the cornerstones of our advisory approach.

We encourage our clients to share their biggest dreams, boldest ideas, and greatest goals with us. Nothing is out of reach. Our clients’ courage and ambition motivates us to always bring a growth mindset to the work we do each day.

To those ends, we're in the moment with each client as their business grows, the world shifts, and new challenges enter the space.

We are a forward thinking, tech-savvy, small business bookkeeping and advisory firm seeking our newest team member. We are looking for a Director of Accounting to continue leading our amazing team while embracing cloud technology with the goal of helping small businesses grow and scale. Excellent client service skills are required, as we care greatly for our clients and interact with them often. Financial reporting, tech stack integration, bookkeeping, and advisory are all part of our every day.

Duties include:

• Supporting and empowering team growth within the firm
• Quality control of client deliverables
• Managing team workload and capacity planning
• Technical accounting support to team members
• Process development and implementation
• Assist in testing, selecting and deploying best-in-class cloud apps for client and internal use.
• Driving Ascend Consulting profitability in conjunction with the rest of Ascend’s management team

Tech skills required:

• Willingness to try new things
• QuickBooks Online mastery
• Understanding of the QuickBooks ecosystem
• Client tech stack development
• Practice management
• Reporting tools
• Google and Microsoft tools

Accounting knowledge:

• Mastery of basic and advanced accounting functions (A/P, A/R, Payroll, Sales Tax, Bank Reconciliations, Inventory, Revenue Recognition, Full Accrual Accounting, Month End Financial Statement close)
• Financial Statement Review and Analysis
• Budgeting & Forecasting
• Basic Business Advisory

This is a remote position, so self-starters who are organized and communicate well are needed. A high level of independence is required to do this work.

If this sounds like a work environment you'd be interested in being a part of, we would love for you to apply!

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $90,000.00 to $120,000.00 /year

Benefits:

• 2 weeks vacation
• Health insurance (covered 50%)
• Optional vision/dental insurance available
• Employer paid short term and long term disability
• 3% retirement match

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $90,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Physical setting:

• Office

Work Location: Remote

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