Senior Client Accountant

Job Description

Senior Bookkeeper — Client Accounting | Cornerstone Accounting Solutions

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Cornerstone Accounting Solutions, located remotely in the Eastern time zone. Cornerstone Accounting Solutions is a boutique accounting and advisory firm serving approximately 100 small businesses across coastal Georgia in diverse sectors like property management, construction, restaurants, and medical practices. This role is for an expert-level, hands-on bookkeeper who will independently own the entire monthly close process for a portfolio of clients, ensuring meticulous financial accuracy and robust adherence to documented procedures.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Remote, United States
• Pay: $60000–$70000 yearly
• Team: Reports to Owner
• Mission: Own the end-to-end monthly close process for 25-30 small business clients.
• Tech Stack: QuickBooks Online, Gusto, Double, Notion

What You’ll Actually Do
• Client Management: Own the end-to-end month-end close for 25–30 cash-basis clients, including reconciliations to zero, accurate entries in the right period, sales tax, loan and fixed asset schedules, financial statements, and footnoted variances.
• System Reconciliation: Reconcile external sales systems such as Shopify, point-of-sale, and property management software to QuickBooks monthly, posting all necessary adjusting entries.
• Process Adherence & Improvement: Follow written client procedures for each close and proactively identify instances where procedures are incorrect, communicating issues rather than working around them.
• Intercompany Accounting: Manage multi-entity families with intercompany activity, accurately determining intercompany balances before deciding where entries post.
• Quality Control & Communication: Review your own work thoroughly before submission and write to clients with clarity, ensuring nothing needs interpreting.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Senior-level expertise in hands-on bookkeeping, not accounting theory, specifically within a bookkeeping firm, CAS practice, or fractional CFO shop.
• Experience: 5+ years owning full monthly closes for 15 or more small-business clients simultaneously, personally reconciling every account each month.
• Skills: Deep proficiency in QuickBooks Online; demonstrated experience with sales tax reconciliation and filing; maintenance of loan and fixed asset schedules; proven ability to reconcile at least one external sales system to the general ledger; practical experience with multi-entity and intercompany accounting; and clear written communication.