Accounting Manager

Otto Aerospace

39d • Remote

About The Position

The Accounting Manager will lead full-cycle accounting activities, own the monthly close, and help mature the company’s processes, to public-company standards in support of a future IPO. The role is hands-on, reporting to the Controller, and partnering with FP&A, engineering, and PMO to bridge from an R&D environment to scalable, SOX-ready financial operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting; CPA strongly preferred
• 7-10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including a mix of public accounting and industry; experience in aerospace, manufacturing, or complex R&D environments is highly desirable
• Solid knowledge of US GAAP, including leases, stock-based compensation, and R&D/project accounting; experience with technical memos and audit interaction
• Prior experience in a high-growth or pre-IPO company and/or with public company SOX readiness, IPO transactions is a strong plus
• Hands-on experience leading the close, managing a team, implementing process improvements
• Comfortable working in a fast-changing environment with incomplete processes, and able to design pragmatic, scalable solutions
• Strong systems orientation, experience with implementing or optimizing ERP and related financial tools
• SAP, Concur, QuickBooks, Ramp experience a plus
• We are a service organization, you are customer service-centric, meeting customer needs, and eventually anticipating them
• Comfortable with ambiguity, as we continue in a rapid growth mode, no two days are typically alike
• Curious, not shy about asking why, or why not, willing to learn new tools, adaptable
• Organized and disciplined, prioritize work assignments, and meet deadlines
• Self-Starter: ability to independently identify work that needs to be completed or issues that need to be addressed, elevate as appropriate, and seek solutions
• Active Listening: gain insight and truly understand all project stakeholders
• Critical Thinking: make prompt, informed and value-based decisions for the project
• Organization: Focus on agenda, schedules, frameworks, consistent methodologies, and documentation to deliver an exceptional work product
• Problem Solving: Assess issues from different vantage points and formulate the best solution in addressing specific challenges
• Teamwork and Team Building: Establish a collaborative culture where people with unique personalities and skills happily work together and accountable to shared goal
• Strong Business Communication: Use the right language, tone and storytelling techniques when communicating, describing, or explaining issues over email, chat, reports, presentations and other forms and channels of communication; adapt communication based on audience
• Self-Motivation: Exude the highest level of commitment and motivation to see it through from start to finish

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close process ensuring timely and accurate US GAAP financial statements
• Leverage technical accounting expertise to evaluate and interpret complex financial transactions, ensuring proper classification and compliance with GAAP
• Ensure account reconciliations are prepared timely, accurately
• Lead the AP (including expense report and p-card program), AR, and Cash Management functions, own the weekly payment run process
• Review fixed assets, assets under construction, lease accounting entries
• Own project accounting set up and maintenance
• Review of payroll and benefits entries, responsible for bonus and stock-based compensation entries
• Ramp system administrator until the company fully transitions to Concur, monitors integration with QuickBooks
• Ensure Concur and SAP remain in sync and reconciled (expense reimbursements and p-card transactions)
• Drive continuous improvement in financial processes and systems
• Passionate about technology, you own the UAT process for SAP and Concur implementations, and will be the system administrator for SAP post implementation
• Create user guides, update policies and procedures under new ERP system environment
• Lead, mentor, and develop the accounting team; set clear expectations, review work and build a culture of ownership, accuracy and continuous improvement
• Foster strong collaboration with internal and cross-functional teams
• Support IPO readiness efforts
• Collaborate with external auditors and tax consultants.
• Respond to ad hoc requests for information from internal/external stakeholders

Benefits

• Otto Aviation provides a robust benefits package that includes competitive salaries, subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) opportunities, paid short term disability, voluntary long-term disability and additional term life, with 15 paid days off, 13-14 paid holidays, and paid sick leave. Depending on seniority and role, some roles qualify for potential bonuses and stock options.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager