Vice President, Accounting

Capstone•Washington, DC

117d•$170,000

About The Position

Capstone is seeking a hands-on leader to own its entire accounting function. The role directs a team handling much of the day-to-day work while retaining ownership of accuracy, timeliness, controls, and accounting judgment. This is a build-and-run position focused on re-engineering workflows, designing AI-assisted and systematized processes, reducing manual work, accelerating the close, and improving data quality. Automation is the default, with spreadsheets used selectively. Reporting directly to the Head of Finance & Accounting, the role is central to a lean, modernizing finance organization and offers meaningful ownership and visibility. It is a controller-track position, with scope expected to expand toward a Controller title as the business scales. The position owns accounting and finance operations across US and UK entities, including close, audit and statutory compliance, general ledger integrity, revenue, AR and AP, payroll-provider relationships, and treasury. It also owns AI-first workflow design, the Campfire ERP implementation and configuration, finance technology integrations, management reporting, and process documentation and controls. The role leads an associate and part-time consultants, develops the associate’s accounting skills, and partners closely with the Head of Finance as a trusted second-in-command. Expected compensation is up to $170,000 annually, plus eligibility for Capstone’s annual bonus pool.

Requirements

5–10 years of progressive accounting experience, including ownership of a full close cycle.
Multi-entity and/or multi-currency experience.
Strong command of US GAAP and revenue recognition.
Working familiarity with UK requirements.
Demonstrated ownership of external audit relationships.
Hands-on, demonstrable experience leveraging or implementing AI in accounting or finance workflows, such as building automations, deploying AI agents, or re-engineering processes around AI; able to show examples of the work.
Proven ability to optimize finance systems, integrations, and workflow automations.
Builder’s mindset; uses tools or processes in preference to spreadsheets and documents processes as work proceeds.
Highly organized and self-directed, and comfortable in a lean, fast-moving, multi-jurisdictional environment with minimal layers.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and cross-functional collaboration.

Nice To Haves

CPA or equivalent credential.
Comfort writing light scripts, such as Python or SQL, to move, clean, or reconcile data.
UK accounting experience.
Direct accounting-context experience with Campfire, Ramp, Navan, Salesforce, or Workday.

Responsibilities

Own the complete month-end close across US and UK entities, including revenue, prepaid expenses, accruals, COGS, consolidations, and intercompany entries; manage the close calendar, quality, sign-off, and cycle-time improvement.
Own external audit and advisor relationships across both entities, including UK audit, VAT, statutory surveys, 1099s, and taxes.
Maintain accurate, consistent, well-documented books in compliance with US GAAP and applicable UK requirements, including review-ready reconciliations and workpapers.
Own revenue recognition, invoicing, accounts receivable, and the accounts payable cycle across both entities.
Manage external payroll-provider relationships and partner with HR to ensure accurate, compliant, and timely payroll processing.
Own cash management across both entities, including cash positioning and forecasting, multi-currency funding between the US and UK, bank relationships, and payment execution; automate processes and add controls.
Identify manual, repetitive, or error-prone workflows and redesign them using AI tools and automation, including drafting, reconciliation assistance, AR follow-up, document handling, and close support.
Functionally own Campfire ERP, complete and stabilize its implementation, configure recurring billing and revenue recognition, and move routine work from spreadsheets into the system.
Evaluate, implement, and operate finance tools and integrations among Salesforce, Workday, Ramp, and the ERP to improve data flow and reduce reconciliation overhead.
Build and maintain management reporting and dashboards, progressing from pragmatic partly manual views toward automated, real-time reporting as data quality improves.
Turn tribal knowledge into clear SOPs and internal controls so the function is resilient, auditable, and ready to scale.
Lead an associate and part-time consultants who perform transactional work; assign and review work, own its output, and manage tasks and deadlines through shared, automated tracking.
Coach the associate to build accounting depth over time.
Partner with the Head of Finance as a trusted second-in-command, escalating only the highest-judgment items and bringing solutions rather than status updates.