Quality Assurance Manager - Accounting & Finance

Responsibilities:

• Quality framework: Define and maintain QA checklists, SOPs, and control points covering general ledger, reconciliations, AP/AR, month-end close, and financial statement preparation.
• Final review: Perform sign-off review of all client deliverables for accuracy, completeness, and US GAAP compliance before delivery.
• Error prevention: Root-cause recurring errors and drive corrective and preventive actions, tracking quality metrics (error rates, rework, on-time delivery) and reporting to leadership and clients.
• Training and mentoring: Build and deliver structured US GAAP training, coach accountants, and maintain a knowledge base that standardises treatment and process across the team.
• Technical authority: Serve as the escalation point for complex accounting questions and quality matters, and keep internal standards current with evolving US GAAP.

Requirements:

• Deep US GAAP expertise: Authoritative, hands-on command of US GAAP applied across full-cycle accounting and bookkeeping for US clients, with the ability to make and defend correct treatment decisions.
• Quality review and control: Strong audit-grade review discipline: the ability to build QA frameworks and checklists, scrutinise deliverables for accuracy and completeness, and systematically reduce errors and rework.
• US client-facing experience: Comfort managing quality escalations and communicating with US clients, ideally gained in an outsourcing, shared-services, or offshore delivery setting.

Additional Skills and Expertise (Good to Have):

• US accounting software proficiency: Working command of the tools in which deliverables are produced (QuickBooks Online/Desktop, Xero, Bill.com, and similar), enabling efficient and credible review.
• Process improvement and standardisation: Experience streamlining accounting workflows and applying automation or AI-assisted tools to improve quality and throughput in a delivery environment.
• Training and mentoring in US GAAP: Proven ability to upskill accountants - developing training content, coaching individuals, and lifting overall team competency and consistency.
• Active CPA (US) or CA (India) - required.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting, Commerce, or Finance.