Generalist Accounting Expert

What You'll Do8

• Build Excel schedules that hold up under U.S. GAAP scrutiny, covering ASC 606 revenue, ASC 842 leases, ASC 718 stock compensation, deferred tax rollforwards and consolidation eliminations.
• Write technical accounting memos and control observations that trace how a transaction moves the financial statements.
• Turn those findings into PowerPoint decks that summarize statement impact and policy implications for a reviewer.
• Assemble monthly and quarterly close packets that follow subledger entries through journals, trial balance and final statements.
• Prepare audit workpapers, tie-outs and flux analyses that an external auditor could defend without follow-up questions.
• Reconcile flows and check internal consistency across every schedule before submission.
• Draft disclosure language that matches the numbers sitting in your workpapers.
• Stress-test your own logic and catch breaks in the chain from source document to reported figure.

Requirements8

• Active CPA license held in any U.S. state.
• Working command of U.S. GAAP plus the standard close, audit and reporting cycles.
• Hands-on QuickBooks experience.
• Track record preparing or reviewing financial statements, footnotes and the workpapers behind them.
• Advanced Excel ability to model accounting mechanics from subledger through journal entry, trial balance and statements.
• Genuine interest in sharpening how AI reasons about accounting and financial reporting.
• Preferred: 2 to 10 years in public accounting at a Big 4 or top regional firm, or in corporate reporting.
• Preferred: background in technical accounting, complex transactions or SOX compliance.

Who Should Apply

A licensed CPA with 2 to 10 years of close, audit or reporting work who can build a clean ASC 606 or ASC 842 schedule from scratch and then write the memo that explains it. QuickBooks fluency and advanced Excel modeling help. Candidates from Big 4, top regional firms or corporate reporting teams fit best.

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