You own the close calendar. You assign tasks to staff accountants with clear deadlines, track progress daily, and ensure every entity closes on time. You personally handle close tasks for the most complex entities that require deeper accounting knowledge. When a reconciliation doesn’t tie or a journal entry doesn’t make sense, you investigate and figure it out to ensure every entity is clean and auditable.
Staff Supervision & Development
You directly manage a team of staff accountants. You assign their daily work, review their journal entries and reconciliations, give feedback on quality and accuracy, and hold them accountable for deadlines. When someone is struggling, you coach them. When someone is excelling, you give them more complex work. You’re building a team that can handle an increasing volume of entities without the quality dropping.
Offshore Team Coordination
An offshore processing team handles accounts payable, bank reconciliation preparation, and transactional bookkeeping. You’re their day-to-day escalation point for accounting workflow questions — coding issues, exception handling, and process clarification. You don’t manage their people, but you own the quality of their accounting output.
Work Product Quality Assurance
You review and approve all journal entries, account reconciliations, and GL maintenance. You spot errors, catch inconsistencies, and ensure documentation standards are met across every entity. You also identify recurring mistakes and process gaps — and you fix them, not just flag them.
Audit & Documentation Support
You support audit preparation by ensuring workpapers are organized, documentation is complete, and PBC (provided by client) schedules are ready when auditors request them. You maintain organized financial records across all entities so that audit season is a breeze, not a fire drill.