Accounting Services Director
About the role
We have a team of about 8 to 10 accountants and bookkeepers, and we're growing really fast. We need someone to lead, coach, train and manage that team, and to own our accounting processes end to end. You'll be the senior accounting authority at Eightx. You'll write the SOPs, set the quality bar, solve the genuinely hard problems (leases, equity transactions, multi-currency, inventory), and be available to your team, our CFOs and our clients when something gets complicated. You'll jump on calls with clients and walk them through issues in plain English. You'll work hand in hand with our fractional CFOs. They turn clean books into decisions. You make sure the books are clean enough to decide on. Remote, anywhere in the world, with overlap with North American hours.
Responsibilities
- Lead the team · Manage, coach and develop our accountants and bookkeepers, and help us hire the next ones
- Review work before it reaches a CFO or a client, give direct feedback, and hold the standard
- Plan capacity across the portfolio so deadlines are met without heroics
- Run the accounting team's weekly meeting, clear blockers, and fix recurring problems at the root
- Own the close · Own month-end across every client, closed accurately within two to ten business days
- Sign off on close files, reconciliations and working papers
- Set and enforce standards for balance sheet accounts: fixed assets, loans, prepaids, accruals, deferred revenue
- Lead variance review across revenue streams (Shopify, Amazon, wholesale) and expense lines, and explain anything that looks wrong before a client asks
- Coordinate year-end with tax accountants and CPA firms
- Build the system · Write and maintain the SOPs, checklists and close calendar the whole team runs on
- Standardize charts of accounts, working paper templates, weekly flash reports and monthly packages
- Find where automation and AI can take work off the team, and make it happen with our AI team
- Solve the hard problems · Lease accounting, equity transactions (SAFEs, convertibles, new rounds), intercompany and multi-entity work
- Multi-currency: FX revaluation, unrealized gains and losses, cross-currency reconciliations
- Inventory and COGS: reconciliations, landed cost, year-end adjustments
- Sales tax, VAT and nexus questions across the US, UK and EU, researched and escalated to the right people
- Be in front of clients · Act as the senior accounting contact for clients and their CFOs
- Join client calls, explain complex issues simply, and follow up with clear notes and action items
- Flag risks early. If something is going to be late or wrong, the CFO and the client hear it from you first