Accounting Manager

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