Director of Accounting

About the role

Incite Tax is seeking a Director of Accounting to lead, develop, and elevate their bookkeeping team. This is a full-time, onsite leadership position based in Draper, UT, with a hybrid option after the first 90 days.

Responsibilities

• Departmental Leadership: Supervise, mentor, and grow Bookkeepers; ensure the team feels supported, held accountable, and empowered to fulfill their roles.
• Process Innovation & Efficiency: Continuously evaluate workflows and implement improvements that increase accuracy and efficiency across the department.
• Quality Standards & Training: Own department huddles and high-level training sessions. Define and uphold the standard for clean books, accurate financial reporting, and excellent client-ready deliverables.
• Peer Review & Quality Assurance: Review bookkeeping data entry and "clean-up" projects performed by staff to ensure the highest level of service across all clients.
• Pricing & Scoping Strategy: Verify bookkeeping pricing and oversee the estimation of clean-up projects to ensure the department remains profitable and sustainable.
• Capacity & Coverage Management: Monitor the BK Review Pool and staff capacity, stepping in to provide high-level support and decision-making when team members are out of the office.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of bookkeeping or accounting experience - required
• Proven experience supervising or mentoring bookkeeping staff
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
• Proficiency in full-cycle bookkeeping, financial reporting, complex account clean ups, and with QuickBooks or similar accounting software
• Excellent communication and follow-up skills
• A proactive attitude and willingness to learn
• Comfortable working independently in a fast-moving environment while staying connected to the team
• Adaptable to change and genuinely enjoy being part of a culture that takes the work seriously but not itself
• A team player who appreciates a lighthearted culture (dad jokes welcome)