Staff Accountant

Staff AccountantLocation: Primarily on-site in Austin, TX (Part-Time) – flexible with potential hybrid opportunities.Our client is seeking a highly capable Staff Accountant for a distinctive part-time opportunity that goes well beyond traditional bookkeeping. This person will become the trusted owner of day-to-day accounting while also helping shape how the organization approaches financial reporting, technology, and recurring business processes. The role offers an unusual combination of hands-on accounting, meaningful autonomy, systems modernization, dashboard development, and thoughtful use of emerging technology. With a planned transition from the current accounting resource, this is an opportunity to learn the operation thoroughly, then make the function your own for the long term.This Role Offers:A sustainable part-time schedule, typically approximately 15 to 20 hours per week, with predictable increases around month-end, quarter-end, and year-end.An opportunity to influence the next generation of the organization's accounting systems, reports, dashboards, and workflows.An established professional environment that values financial discipline while remaining practical, flexible, and open to better ways of working.The opportunity to build a long-term professional home while maintaining meaningful space for interests and commitments outside of work.A highly collaborative, modern professional environment with a distinctly Austin culture - smart, creative, casual, and relationship-driven.Focus:Own core accounting activities including reconciliations, journal entries, account classification, and recurring close work.Maintain reliable financial records and turn accounting data into clear management reporting for firm leadership.Build practical dashboards and reporting views that make monthly and quarterly performance easier to understand.Help modernize the accounting environment by supporting evaluation, migration, and adoption of a new financial platform.Look for smarter ways to handle recurring finance workflows, reporting, costs, and administrative processes.Use AI and automation thoughtfully where they can improve efficiency while protecting confidential and sensitive information.Coordinate selected software, technology, and vendor administration needs that intersect with finance and office operations.Work directly with senior professionals on financial questions, priorities, and occasional client or vendor matters.Manage responsibilities independently after a structured transition from the current accounting resource.Plan workload around recurring deadlines, with additional availability during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end cycles.Skill Set:Strong command of practical accounting, including reconciliations, journal entries, account classification, close activities, and financial reporting.Demonstrated ability to produce accurate, dependable financial information with strong attention to detail.Professional-services experience with the judgment and communication skills to work effectively with senior stakeholders.Background in public accounting, a larger professional-services organization, or a sophisticated legal environment is strongly preferred.Self-directed work style and the ability to manage an accounting function with limited day-to-day oversight.Comfort balancing firm accounting rules and data integrity with practical judgment in less structured business situations.Interest in improving systems, reporting, technology, and recurring workflows rather than simply maintaining the status quo.Comfort learning new accounting and business software and helping guide a system transition.Sound judgment around responsible use of AI, automation, data privacy, and confidential information.Long-term interest in a stable part-time role and the ability to support predictable peak periods around financial close cycles.About Blue Signal:Blue Signal is an award-winning, executive search firm specializing in finance & accounting recruiting. We have a strong reputation for finding top talent in private equity, asset management, financial services, FinTech, and accounting leadership.