Accountant

Boulo Solutions is sourcing candidates for a client looking to hire a part time Accountant to join our team of ambitious professionals and take control of the financial elements of not only our company, but also across our various portfolio companies and clients. You need to be a willing to get dirty and leverage all of your financial wizadry to get our bookkeeping, invoicing, controlling, and M&A activities in line and up to speed. You also need to want to be an integral part of the fast-paced world of growing tech startup!

A Day in the Life:

You are all about categorizing revenue and keeping control of costs. You dream in green. Analyzing and problem solving is your forte. You have a wide range of financial experience that can be applied across the various needs of our organization. You will need to address and oversee all things finance related including bookkeeping, invoicing (AR) and payables, and general M&A analysis and modeling. You will need to be performing the roles of a controller in the morning and M&A analyst in the afternoon. You understand the need to dive deep into costs and look for efficiencies in expenditures wherever possible.

An overview of your responsibilities are:

· Take control of all bookkeeping and data entry duties for company along with its portfolio companies and clients (where applicable)

· Serve as a Controller: Invoicing and collections

· Provide general Accounting services: Bookkeeping and reconciliation

· Have analyst responsibilities: Data entry; Pay and handle all internal payable needs (bills, utilities, rent etc)

· Consulting: work both internally and with our clients to determine and apply best approach for financial success

· M&A (Banking): familiarity with M&A activity and basic modeling; relationships with local banks a plus

· Produce Monthly clean monthly Reporting - both internally and for our clients

· Highly organized, focused, ability to multi-task and understand basic financial principles across a number of organizations

Specific responsibilities include:

General Financial Management

1. Maintain a documented system of accounting policies and procedures

2. Manage any outsourced functions

3. Oversee the buildout of operations for the accounting function, including the design of an organizational structure adequate for achieving the department's goals and objectives

4. Oversee the accounting operations of subsidiary corporations, especially their control systems, transaction-processing operations, and policies and procedures.

Transactions

1. Ensure that accounts payable are paid in a timely manner

2. Ensure that all reasonable discounts are taken on accounts payable

3. Ensure that accounts receivable are collected promptly

4. Process payroll in a timely manner

5. Ensure that periodic bank reconciliations are completed

6. Ensure that required debt payments are made on a timely basis

7. Maintain the chart of accounts

8. Maintain an orderly accounting filing system

9. Maintain a system of controls over accounting transactions

Reporting

1. Issue timely and complete financial statements

2. Coordinate the preparation corporate annual reports

3. Recommend benchmarks against which to measure the performance of company operations

4. Calculate and issue financial and operating metrics

5. Manage the production of the annual budget and forecasts

6. Calculate variances from the budget and report significant issues to management

7. Provide for a system of management cost reports

8. Provide financial analyses as needed, in particular for capital investments, pricing decisions, and contract negotiations

Compliance

1. Monitor debt levels and compliance with debt covenants

2. Comply with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements and tax filings

3. Coordinate the provision of information to external auditors for annual audits (when required)

You have:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or business administration
• 5-7 years experience working in accounting/finance function (bookkeeping, invoicing etc) with progressively responsible experience for a midsize company or division of a large corporation
• 2 years experience in M&A or consulting capacity
• Degree in Finance, ORFE (Operations Research Financial Engineering), Accounting or similar
• Preference will be given to candidates with the Certified Public Accountant or Certified Management Accountant designations
• Comfortable with data entry and "entry-level" work at a growing company
• Ability to meet deadlines and work in a fast paced environment
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Effective written documentation skills a must
• Ability to listen, comprehend and execute multi-faceted tasks and requests
• Flexibility to travel as needed to company subsidiaries as well as to potential acquirees to conduct due diligence
• Openness to periodic weekend or evening work
• A love for numbers!

Hours: Part time 20hours/week to start and could grow if candidate desired.

Location: Preferred Hybrid near Birmingham, but within driving distance is also ok.

Hourly Rate: $35-40/hour
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Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $35.00 - $40.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Accounting: 5 years (Required)
• QuickBooks: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: Multiple Locations

Salary : $35 - $40