Required Skills & Experience
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
- Supervisory, leadership, or accounting oversight experience
- Strong **General Ledger** accounting experience
- Hands-on **monthly close** experience
- Experience preparing/reviewing **journal entries**
- Hands-on **fixed asset accounting**
- Hands-on **inventory accounting**
- Ability to manage balance sheet reconciliations and investigate discrepancies
- Strong Excel skills with complex financial data
- Comfortable working **onsite in Buda, TX**
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- CPA or actively pursuing CPA
- Public accounting experience, especially Big 4 or national firm
- Combination of public accounting + industry accounting
- Construction, engineering, contracting, or project-based accounting - STRONGLY PREFERRED
- Manufacturing or consumer products accounting - STRONGLY PREFERRED
- Experience in a fixed-asset/inventory-heavy environment
- ERP experience (Vista is used internally)
- Lease accounting experience
Job Description
Insight Global is seeking an Accounting Manager for a top mechanical construction and engineering client in the Austin area. This is a hands-on accounting leadership opportunity for someone who enjoys owning the details while also growing into broader management responsibilities. This individual will play a critical role in the monthly close and general ledger process, with significant ownership of fixed assets, inventory, journal entries, reconciliations, and account analysis. The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, has previously provided supervision or oversight, and is comfortable operating in a fast-paced, asset-intensive environment. This is a net-new role created to support continued growth, with strong exposure to senior Accounting and Finance leadership and the opportunity to build out leadership responsibilities over time.
### Day-to-Day:
- Own key components of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close
- Heavy involvement in **GL accounting and monthly close**
- Prepare, review, and approve journal entries
- Handle accruals, prepaids, payroll entries, fixed assets, intercompany transactions, and reclasses
- Own **fixed asset accounting**, including additions, disposals, depreciation, and reconciliations
- Manage **inventory accounting and reconciliations**
- Oversee balance sheet reconciliations and resolve discrepancies
- Analyze unusual account balances and financial fluctuations
- Support lease accounting and amortization
- Ensure accounting activity complies with **U.S. GAAP** and internal policies/controls
- Improve the speed, accuracy, and overall effectiveness of the close process
- Partner closely with senior Accounting and Finance leadership
- Initially operate without direct reports, with potential to have a couple of employees underneath the position as the team grows