Team Lead, CPG

Role Description

Ensure high-quality, consistent client delivery across an assigned team of CPG-focused Client Leads and staff by enabling, coaching, and coordinating their work. The Accounting Senior Manager — CPG Team Lead is accountable for team effectiveness across a portfolio of consumer packaged goods clients — not just individual client outcomes. This role requires both delivery leadership and people leadership, and carries formal responsibilities for performance reviews, career coaching, and development planning.

CPG is a demanding vertical. Clients in this space deal with trade promotion complexity, multi-channel revenue structures, inventory and landed cost challenges, and margin pressure that requires precision at every level. The Team Lead must be fluent enough in CPG accounting to coach Client Leads through these challenges credibly — and to recognize quality work product when they review it.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required; CPA required
• 7–10 years of accounting experience including at least 2 years in a client lead, manager, or team leadership role; public accounting (Manager level) or outsourced accounting leadership experience strongly preferred
• Demonstrated CPG accounting experience — this is a firm requirement. Candidates must be able to speak specifically to trade promotion accounting, inventory reconciliation, landed cost, and multi-channel COGS in a CPG context
• Familiarity with CPG-specific platforms and operational systems including QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, Cin7, Shopify, and 3PL management systems preferred
• Deep working knowledge of GAAP with direct experience navigating startup-specific accounting complexity: SAFEs, convertible instruments, ASC 606, equity compensation, and more
• Demonstrated ability to manage a team and a client portfolio simultaneously without sacrificing quality on either
• Strong coaching and feedback skills — you have developed junior accounting professionals before and take that responsibility seriously
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; executive presence in client-facing situations
• Experience working in a remote professional services environment is strongly preferred

Requirements

• CPG Accounting Fluency: Understand CPG accounting at a practitioner level — trade spend, deductions, landed cost, inventory reconciliation, gross-to-net revenue across channels.
• Leadership Without Proximity: Set clear expectations, provide consistent coaching, and hold your team accountable — entirely through remote communication and structured operating rhythms.
• Client Credibility: Maintain the technical depth and professional presence to engage senior CPG client contacts directly when needed.
• Coaching Over Fixing: Make Client Leads better — not to do their work for them.
• Responsiveness at Scale: Model the responsiveness expected from your team.
• Accountability for Team Outcomes: Own what your team delivers across the CPG portfolio.
• Professional Standards Enforcement: Hold Client Leads and Associates to a high bar for written communication, client interaction, and deliverable quality.

Benefits

• Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage. 100% of the employee's health insurance premium is covered by the company.
• Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability insurance.
• Generous Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO), 11 Paid Company Holidays, and comprehensive Paid Parental Leave.
• Fully remote position with company-provided technology equipment and a $250 technology stipend to support your ideal home office setup.
• 401k with a company match.