Accountant
US$65,000 – US$85,000 / yr base salary
Posted 8 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Senior Accountant - Cleanup Manager”
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- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$65,000 – US$85,000 / yr |
|---|
Full-time | $65,000 to $85,000 | Remote
Do you like solving accounting puzzles?
Some accountants like maintaining clean books.
You like figuring out why they aren't clean in the first place.
Breakwater Accounting & Advisory is looking for a Cleanup Manager who gets genuine satisfaction from taking messy financials, figuring out what happened, and turning them into books that leadership can actually trust.
You investigate. You trace the money. You ask questions. You test theories. You rebuild accounts. You find the root cause. Then you create a clean, reliable financial picture that the client and our ongoing accounting team can trust.
And then?
You move on to the next puzzle.
This is a role for someone who enjoys variety and problem solving. You'll work on multiple cleanup projects at once, diving into each one, solving the problem, creating a clean handoff, and moving forward.
What You'll Do
Find the mess. Figure out what happened. Fix it. Prove it's right. Move on to the next puzzle.
Investigate and solve
- Dig into messy financial records to understand what happened and why.
- Trace transactions to uncover errors, missing information, and broken processes.
- Develop practical cleanup plans and work through them to completion.
- Reconstruct financial activity when the existing records don't tell the full story.
Prove the numbers are right
- Reconcile and substantiate major balance sheet accounts including cash, payroll, loans, revenue, prepaids, accruals, fixed assets, and equity.
- Create supporting schedules and documentation that show why the numbers are right.
- Go beyond “it balances” to create financials that are accurate, explainable, and defensible.
Make the books make sense
- Redesign charts of accounts when they no longer serve the business.
- Organize financial reporting so business owners can understand what is actually happening.
- Identify the story behind the numbers and make that story easier to see.
Fix what caused the problem
- You'll reverse-engineer workflows such as invoicing, payroll, inventory, and expenses to understand where things went wrong.