Remote Accounting Manager for Education Management Company
About the role
A fast-growing US early childhood education platform is looking for an Accounting Manager to take full ownership of the month-end close, vendor and payables management, and the systems work that keeps finance operations scalable through rapid growth. The company operates 11 schools acquired through a roll-up strategy and is scaling toward roughly 50 locations within three years, with revenue growing from $20M toward $60M+. Backed by a family office, the business integrates well-established preschools onto a single operating platform — giving the finance function a mandate well beyond day-to-day bookkeeping. Day-to-day, the Accounting Manager owns the full month-end close targeting a 5–7 day cycle, manages vendors and payables through a modern spend platform, and drives process improvements ahead of the company's first external audit. Success means running the close independently by day 60 and delivering a systems-improvement roadmap by day 90, with a defined growth path toward a Controller role.
What you'll do
Requirements
- 5+ years of accounting experience at the Accounting Manager level or equivalent
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of a full month-end close process — not a single function such as AP, AR, or tax
- U.S. GAAP accounting experience at a U.S.-based or U.S.-reporting company
- Advanced Excel proficiency evidenced through complex reconciliations, multi-entity consolidation, or financial modeling
- Experience project-managing the close holistically across workstreams (journal entries, reconciliations, reporting)
- Full-time availability with no concurrent clients or independent accounting practice
- C1+ English (CEFR) for vendor-facing and cross-functional communication
About Pearl Talent
Pearl Talent is a talent placement company that recruits remote workers, trains them to work effectively with AI tools, and places them as managed contractors with client companies — across roles ranging from client-facing positions to software engineers and executive assistants. The company is roughly 50 people managing a few hundred placed contractors, growing into new verticals, with clients spanning venture-backed tech and healthcare sectors. They emphasize community-building (events, culture) alongside the placement business itself.
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