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We're the premier, remote accounting, tax, and consulting firm built exclusively to serve the craft brewing industry.

Our mission is to help breweries make profit. And our team is filled with expert, autonomous, adaptable, high performers.

Are you up for the challenge?

We're looking for a full-time, remote Brewery Accounting Manager to join our specialized team. The main objective of this role is to lead your accounting team and client portfolio in accordance with the SBS values and mission.

About The Role

This role will report to our Director of Operations and is accountable for fulfilling the following responsibilities:

+ Lead and develop your Accounting Team. Put simply, as a Manager at SBS, your success is measured by your team's success. This means that although you have a high level of accounting competency yourself, your main responsibility is to serve your team and clients. You'll interview, onboard, train, and develop the individual Accountants and Associates on your team so that they meet their goals and progress in their careers. This also means you'll be the go-to resource for solving problems and addressing issues, ensuring the lines of communication are open amongst the team, with clients, and with SBS Leadership.

+ Oversee and manage your team's client portfolio. Aside from your team members, you'll also be responsible for onboarding new clients each month, as well as monitoring and managing your team's active client relationships. Your job is to ensure that each engagement runs smoothly, and that we are delivering on our service commitments to clients while keeping the engagement within scope. This will also include periodic contract review with the Leadership Team to ensure we are supporting our mission amongst all of our clients in an effective, profitable way.

+ Review your team's Accounting Deliverables. You'll be responsible for reviewing each of your team's submitted Accounting Deliverables using our established review checklist, and providing team members with actionable feedback so that (a) we can maintain a high level of quality in the work we deliver to clients, and (b) our Accountants can improve their work and skill set over time.

+ Flex to cover team workload where needed. Periodically, you'll need to take on a client or two yourself, either as a holdover from onboarding, to cover for someone who is out of the office, or during a transition period where your team is at capacity until we can resolve the workload constraint. It'll be under your and the Director of Operations' discretion to determine when, how, and how long you'll need to do this for.

+ Own and improve your team's Scorecard. You'll be responsible for the overall performance Scorecard for your team. This means that it's your responsibility to initiate any adjustments and improvements that need to happen in order to bring the team's scorecard targets into range, as well as flag and escalate issues that are beyond the scope of your team in order to get them solved.

+ Work with SBS Leadership. As an SBS Manager, you'll act both as a representative of your Accounting Team and as a key decision-maker for cross-functional integrations (i.e. with Consulting, Tax, and Brand as well as shared standards with the other Brewery Teams).

+ Contribute to the overall success of our firm. Each week we share wins, progress, and knowledge, as well as identify and solve issues at multiple levels (company, team, individual). Your full participation in this process beyond your specific role is critical to ensure that we are operating as a cohesive, high-performance unit.

About You

We're looking for an individual who:

+ Has the technical chops. You've got the fundamentals covered. Integrations with QBO? Got it. Payroll accruals? No problem. Inventory reconciliation? In your sleep. Chart of accounts re-organization? Easy-peasy.

+ Can solve problems. When a sync breaks, rogue inventory transactions appear, or a clients sales tax filing portal goes down... you keep a level head, get to the root cause quickly, and use the resources at your disposal to get the job done.

+ Is a master communicator. You can translate our technical inside-baseball into clear, straightforward communication to clients, can manage scope and negotiate boundaries, and can just simply make relationships with clients… work!

+ Loves to teach, coach, and train. You get more enjoyment out of seeing your team improve and succeed than you do with your own individual work, and thrive on opportunities to help them learn, fill in skill gaps, build confidence, and increase their effectiveness and success within the company.

+ Puts others first. Though we expect you to hold boundaries, develop yourself, and look after your own career, at every turn you look to support, elevate, and provide for your team. The best managers understand that they succeed through their team, and act accordingly.

About Our Culture

We're fully remote, with team members and clients located all across the U.S. and have developed our own unique culture we call The SBS Way, within which we operate, evaluate performance, and make decisions using our core values as a guide:

+ Be Antifragile. Everything we do is an opportunity for learning and continuous improvement.

+ Play The Long Game. We make decisions in the long-term interest of our firm, our clients, and our industry.

+ Act as A Team of Experts. We willingly collaborate and provide feedback to develop ourselves and deliver exceptional results for our clients.

Working At SBS

What it's like working at our firm:

+ High flexibility. We don't have time sheets, don't track hours, and leave it to each team member to determine the best way to complete their work. Your schedule is yours to make.

+ High accountability. We measure and manage to our client deliverable performance metrics and ensure each team member takes ownership over their accomplishment with a high level of quality. You own your results.

+ Great pay for great work. We pay based on the characteristics that matter: position (and its market value), level of mastery, and productive output for our clients. You'll be compensated well and can focus on great work.

+ Performance bonuses. Beyond the base salary compensation for each role, individuals who go above and beyond to achieve a higher level of productivity and contribution to our goals may be eligible to receive significant additional performance-based compensation.

+ Generous benefits. We offer a generous benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance enrollment; as well as an IRA match, tech stipend, 3 weeks of paid time off, and parental leave.

+ Merit-based career progression. We have clearly established career tracks, performance benchmarks, and mastery levels set for all of our core positions, with a quarterly review and promotion consideration cycle in place to evaluate your progress. Your progress is under your control.

+ Personal and and team development. Beyond our continuous learning focus, we also provide support for personal development in the form of expense coverage for continuing education (books, courses, training, certifications, etc.) as well as experiential learning (brewery visits, industry events and conferences, etc.). Each year we also meet in person for an all-expenses-paid annual retreat as a team.

Job Requirements

The following basic requirements must be met:

+ 5+ years of full cycle, accrual-based accounting experience managing recurring clients within a public accounting firm.

+ 1+ years of previous experience managing 2+ direct reports.

+ Have rock solid proficiency with QuickBooks Online.

+ Have a demonstrated ability to do cross-functional remote work.

+ Have crystal clear professional written and verbal communication skills.

+ Have exacting organizational standards and a calm and friendly attitude.

+ Have a demonstrated ability to rapidly adapt to new technologies and software.

+ Available and responsive during normal business hours (9am-5pm, Monday-Friday).

+ Have a strong, consistent internet connection and a work environment conducive to video calls.

Preferred qualifications include:

+ Direct previous experience managing an accounting team in a remote, public accounting environment.

+ Direct previous experience onboarding, cleaning up, and handing off new public accounting clients to other team members.

+ Sales or customer service experience directly interacting with clients or customers.

+ Experience with the following platforms and their integrations: Bill.com, Ekos, Square, Toast, Gusto, Paychex, ADP, Eventbrite, Stripe.

+ Experience using Podio or similar remote project management tools (e.g. Trello, Asana, etc.).

Next Steps

If the position, culture, values, and mission at Small Batch Standard sound like they're the right fit for you, please apply!