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CFO – USA
Overview
If you’re a successful CFO and beginning to outgrow your role, we’d like to speak with you. Perhaps you’ve set up a solid infrastructure and team but now the job has become, well… dull. At SoPro, we specialize in building robust systems and structures so our clients can scale. Why not join our team and leverage your hard-won experience to help other enterprises, while continuing to serve your employer as a part-time CFO? You could concentrate exclusively on CFO-level work, while tapping into the expertise and camaraderie of a growing SoPro team. We’ll work with you to launch your own portfolio and, unlike most partnerships, we won’t take a deep cut of your CFO earnings!
Responsibilities
- Building and managing a self-sufficient team of accountants, account managers, and controllers
- Conducting business development to attract new clients that outsource their finance and accounting to SoPro
- Managing clients’ on-boarding, while building SoPro relationships across all divisions of client company
- Providing guidance to client’s sales team to ensure proper revenue recognition, collectability, and forecasting
- Maintaining relationships with external players such as banks, legal institutions, and auditors
- Being a trusted advisor to the client CEO, who will rely upon you to be a strategic financial expert
- Creating financial models and providing ad-hoc financial analysis
- Reviewing complex accounting transactions to ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP
Requirements
- 12-15 years’ experience in accounting and financial record keeping
- At least seven of those years, leading the finance function of a complex organization
- Bachelor’s degree with CPA, CMA or MBA preferred
- Familiarity with a variety of accounting platforms including QuickBooks
- Robust problem solving, Excel, and analytical skills
- Exceptional communication, with the ability to explain complex financial information to non-financial stakeholders
- Strong leadership and decision-making ability, including professional confidence, integrity, and sound judgment
Interested? – [Contact us today]
Account Manager – USA
Overview
As Account Manager, you will be the point person for a portfolio of companies. You will be responsible for onboarding new clients, prioritizing clients’ needs, assigning deliverables to members of the SoPro accounting team, and ensuring that tasks and projects are executed properly and on schedule.
Responsibilities
- Account management responsibilities for several clients
- New client onboarding including
• Meeting with clients to determine needs and priorities and set up timelines
• Defining accounting workflow with client operations and SoPro’s Kenya team
• Structuring and setting-up new QuickBooks files and hosted server access
• Setting-up online bill-payment, expense reporting, and other apps
• Setting-up payroll and transitioning client from other services
• Training client staff how to use new tools and systems
• Managing schedules/expectations and providing updates to clients as the transition evolves - Remitting sales tax and other client filings
- Processing payroll, preparing W-2’s, 1099’s, etc.
- Fielding client issues that require same-day response
- Assessing existing processes and determining ways to improve efficiencies
- Disseminating best-practices from top-performing clients to the rest of the portfolio
- Assisting in documenting policies and procedures and training clients how to follow them
- Creating client deliverable calendars, scheduling meetings, and writing meeting recaps
- Keeping tabs on individual projects and supporting Kenyan team as necessary to focus on priorities
Requirements
- At least five years of financial management and accounting experience
- BA in accounting, finance or related field, with an MBA highly-valued
- Experience working directly with clients, strong communication skills, and outstanding organizational ability
- Ability to prioritize, set boundaries, see and understand the big picture, while being very productive
- Project management or account management experience within a financial services setting
- Comfortable with technology including excellent working knowledge of Excel and QuickBooks
- Resourcefulness and ability to multi-task independently, while adapting to changing circumstances
Interested? – [Contact us today]
Controller – Kenya
Overview
As Controller, you will be principally responsible for accounting supervision across a portfolio of clients in multiple countries and industries. You will be expected to operate with a high level of independence and to assist SoPro CFOs’ in strategic, analytical, and transactional support to clients.
Responsibilities
- Assisting in evaluating current financial and accounting process for new clients and implementing improvements
- Managing monthly close processes, including reconciliation and analysis of balance sheet accounts
- Managing preparation of standard reports, including consolidated income statement, balance sheet and cash flows
- Drafting high-level analysis from client financial results and working with CFOs to prepare guidance for client
- Developing, maintaining, and strengthening integrity of the financial reporting process and internal controls
- Developing and updating written policies and procedures for client accounting and reporting processes
- Managing preparation of the annual accounts and coordinating clients’ annual audit with independent auditors
- Working proactively with client to ensure collaboration of finance function with ongoing client operations
- Providing support to Account Managers, as necessary, in payroll, compliance, and internal audit processes
- Mentoring accountants on financial planning and analysis, accounting principles, and issues research
Requirements
- 8 or more years’ experience in accounting and financial record keeping
- CPA certification with BA or its equivalent in accounting, finance or related field
- Hands-on experience involving consolidated accounting of multiple subsidiaries across geographies
- Familiarity with all aspects of finance and accounting across a range of different business types
- Inherent understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Excellent technical and analytical skills, with superb attention to detail
- Insistence on doing what is necessary to get the accounting right
- Team-player who elevates the performance of co-workers
- Able to work effectively and pro-actively under tight deadlines
- Strong leadership and decision-making ability, including professional confidence, integrity, and sound judgment
- Advanced Excel skills with solid working knowledge of Quick books, Intacct or Net Suite
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Interested? – [Contact us today]
Accountant – Kenya
Overview
As an independent Accountant, you will be involved with each area of the accounting cycle for one or more clients. There will be some client interaction (verbal and written) as well as problem-solving and administration. But, for the most part, you will be left in peace to do serious, high-quality accounting! If you derive great satisfaction in working autonomously to keep accurate accounts, while being mentored and developed by a seasoned Controller, this may be the job for you.
Responsibilities
- Helping implement changes to new clients’ chart of accounts, reporting, and accounting processes
- Processing steady-state AP, AR, GL, inventory, and payroll transactions
- Performing month-close activities such as intercompany transactions, journal entries, and bank reconciliations
- Maintaining supporting schedules for amortizations, accruals, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, deferred revenue
- Providing accounting and financial information to internal stakeholders on ad-hoc basis
- Preparing timely and accurate financial statements (balance sheet, P&L, and cash flow) on monthly basis
- Preparing budget-to-actual variance reports and providing draft commentary of underlying reasons for variances
- Preparing sales and use tax returns, business property tax, income tax, and business license forms
- Reviewing and troubleshooting inventory management and COGS issues
- Managing client expense reporting process and ensuring compliance with client’s policies and procedures
- Assisting with internal and independent audits
Requirements
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience providing AP, AR, GL, inventory functions
- Associates or Bachelor’s degree in accounting
- A current registration with ICPAK and/or other professional certification bodies like ACCA
- Hands-on experience in Excel and QuickBooks, Intacct or NetSuite preferred
- Resourcefulness, high personal standards, and ability to work independently
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Enjoys multi-tasking, organization, and prioritization
- Pass SoPro written test on accounting and computer knowledge
- Work the same days as those in effect at the principal location of assigned clients
Interested? – [Contact us today]