Accounting Manager

Accounting ManagerAltieri designs mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and low-voltage systems that disappear into museums, campuses, and landmarks—American Museum of Natural History, Yale, the Getty, the Met—while cutting energy use and carbon. As Accounting Manager you keep the financial systems equally invisible and reliable so principals can bid, staff, and deliver those projects without surprise. Your numbers let 50–200 people in Wilton and Boston stay focused on work that wins AEI innovation awards.What You Will AccomplishClose the books by the 10th business day every month with 99%+ accuracy so leadership can price the next Corning or Glenstone-scale job on real data.Produce rolling 13-week cash forecasts that keep payroll, consultants, and vendors paid on multi-year institutional contracts.Cut average invoice-to-cash cycle 20% in year one by tightening billing, collections, and job-cost coding with project managers.Stand up project-level P&L and utilization dashboards that flag overruns 30 days before they hit the income statement.Lead the annual audit and tax filings with zero material adjustments, preserving our SBE status and bonding capacity.Document and train a two-person accounting team so month-end, payroll, and 401(k) run without you in the room.Environment & ResourcesYou report to the Managing Principal and sit with a lean finance group supporting two offices. You will use our existing accounting and project-management stack (plus any upgrades you justify). Travel between Wilton, CT and Boston is occasional. Budget authority covers software, training, and one additional hire if volume justifies it.Essential Qualifications5+ years owning month-end close and project accounting in a professional-services or A/E firm of similar size.Hands-on experience with job-cost systems, WIP, and percentage-of-completion revenue.Track record of producing cash-flow and utilization reports principals actually use.CPA or equivalent technical depth; audit-ready workpapers are non-negotiable.Ability to translate engineering project language into clean general-ledger entries.Why This Role Is DifferentYour reports directly influence whether we pursue the next museum or university that will still be photographed in 50 years.Small-firm leverage: process changes you make are live in weeks, not quarters.Work sits inside a certified Small Business Enterprise whose clients are the country's most demanding architects.Two-office flexibility with a culture that already treats sustainability as a design constraint, not a slogan.If you want your close, your forecasts, and your dashboards to underwrite buildings that last, send your resume and a one-page note on the last process you fixed. We read every one.