Certified Public Accountant

Crisp Recruit • Jacksonville, FL

7d • $150,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Campione Law, a leading personal injury and insurance law firm in Jacksonville, FL, is seeking a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) to establish and lead its accounting function. This newly created In-House CPA / Accounting Controller role is designed to centralize, strengthen, and professionalize the firm's accounting operations. The successful candidate will own accounting operations, reduce reliance on external firms, implement disciplined monthly processes, and build scalable infrastructure to support growth and potential acquisitions. This strategic partner to the CFO and executive team will evaluate systems, identify risks, recommend process improvements, and help build an internal accounting department. The role requires a CPA with robust operational accounting experience, a strategic mindset, and the ability to partner with executive leadership in an entrepreneurial environment. Experience with corporate accounting, multi-entity accounting, M&A, and QuickBooks Online is highly valued. The position offers high-impact ownership, strategic visibility, and a long-term leadership path in a growth-oriented firm.

Requirements

• Must hold an active CPA license with robust operational accounting experience.
• Strong operational accounting experience, including ownership of month-end close, financial reporting, reconciliations, controls, and accounting processes.
• Ability to operate as more than an order-taking accountant by forming opinions, making recommendations, identifying risks, and respectfully challenging leadership when needed.
• Comfortable working directly with a CFO, COO, owner, and executive team in a performance-focused, entrepreneurial environment.
• Proven ability to assess accounting operations, identify inefficiencies, improve controls, and implement better systems.
• Experience managing accounting staff or demonstrated potential to lead and build an internal accounting team over time.
• Strong familiarity with QuickBooks Online, with the ability to assess whether the current system can support future growth.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with corporate accounting, multi-entity accounting, M&A due diligence, transaction advisory, acquisition accounting, or integration planning is strongly preferred.
• Interest in automation, AI, and accounting systems improvement is highly valued; direct AI experience is not required.
• Controller, Assistant Controller, Accounting Director, corporate accounting leader, CPA with operational accounting depth, or accounting leader with law firm, family office, or multi-entity experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the firm’s accounting operations, including month-end, quarterly, and year-end close, general ledger oversight, journal entries, reconciliations, financial statement preparation, and internal reporting.
• Strengthen balance sheet accuracy, income statement accuracy, cash flow visibility, accounting controls, policies, procedures, and reporting discipline.
• Evaluate the current accounting function, including QuickBooks Online, month-end close, internal controls, financial reporting, outside CPA relationships, current bookkeeper responsibilities, and opportunities for automation.
• Identify weaknesses, low-hanging fruit, and long-term improvement opportunities, then build better systems that reduce year-end cleanup and produce consistently clean financials throughout the year.
• Work closely with the CFO as a strategic accounting counterpart by providing financial recommendations, explaining accounting implications, identifying risks, challenging existing processes, and supporting business decisions.
• Manage and develop the internal bookkeeper while creating a structure that can eventually support additional bookkeepers and accounting professionals.
• Support multi-entity accounting, financial due diligence, acquisition accounting, integration planning, and scalable processes for future business growth.
• Assess QuickBooks Online and recommend whether the firm should improve, migrate, or eventually adopt a different accounting platform to support growth.
• Identify responsible ways to use automation and AI to improve accounting efficiency while maintaining accuracy, proper review, and audit trails.

Benefits

• PTO
• Holidays
• Healthcare
• 401(k) eligibility
• Relocation assistance may be available for highly qualified candidates.
• CRISP Experience trial access may be available post-90 days, with a focus on operational growth and leadership development.

What This Job Offers

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