Part-Time Accounting Consultant

(Looking for 15 - 30 hours per week)

$60 to $70/hour (1099 contractor)

Requirements:

Bachelor’s in Accounting; highly prefer CPA.

Must have strong data analysis skills: Power Query, Power BI very helpful, deal with large data sets, data mapping, creating dashboards, etc.

Advanced Excel skills and problem solving skills.

Significant communication skills.

Experience with Software implementations and integrations very helpful.

Must have high emotional intelligence: Ability to understand and observe company culture and use that when posing recommendations.

Must live within 1 hour of New Orleans.

Most work is done remotely with some visits to clients' offices in Greater New Orleans region.

Possible Job Duties include:

• Ability to work with a brand-new client to start a job and learn/document processes and procedures to suggest improvements. Improvements could be a change in process or a restructure to the process, automation software or new accounting software. 
• Review the month close process and produce monthly GAAP financial statements for clients in various industries, such as non-profits, transportation, medical, retail, construction, etc.
• Review and lead the audit preparation process on behalf of our clients and be the liaison with the 3rd party auditors. 
• Assist with implementing new standards for clients.
• Review the year end financial statement preparation and all support to provide to 3rd party tax preparers.
• Manage the client expectations and keep the project on track and meeting deadlines.
• Train client’s staff with needed and work at their level and their pace and adjust our methodology to meet them if necessary.