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Anchored in Santa Monica, California, with crewmates across the U.S., Crew Finance is your beacon in the financial storm. Our team of seasoned finance and accounting professionals specializes in navigating the complexities of startups and high-growth businesses. With Crew Finance, you're not just on-board—you're charting a course for success.

The Role

We're looking for a Director of Accounting Quality Assurance — emphasis on accounting. This is not a software QA role, a test engineering role, or anything adjacent to code. This role is about the integrity of financial statements, the precision of balance sheet reconciliations, the rigor of month-end closes, and the kind of meticulous review that makes clients sleep at night.

You'll be the firm's standard-bearer: designing the QA/QC framework that governs our accounting deliverables, leading cleanup efforts when client books are in rough shape, and building the processes that prevent the mess in the first place. This is a leadership role — you'll mentor and develop team members, partner closely with controllers and client-facing teams, and serve as the internal authority on complex accounting questions.

If you get a quiet thrill from a perfectly reconciled balance sheet, know the difference between a classification error and a fundamental misstatement, and can spot a broken accrual from fifty yards, you might be exactly who we're looking for.

What You'll Own & Improve

ACCOUNTING QUALITY ASSURANCE & CONTROL

• Design and maintain firm-wide QA/QC standards for all accounting deliverables — financial statements, reconciliations, journal entries, and supporting documentation
• Establish quality metrics that track error rates, rework, and delivery timeliness across client engagements
• Conduct regular file audits to verify accuracy, GAAP compliance, and alignment with firm standards
• Flag systemic issues before they become client problems

CLEANUP & REMEDIATION

• Lead complex cleanup projects — account reconciliations, reclassifications, historical corrections, prior-period true-ups
• Diagnose root causes of accounting errors and implement corrective actions that stick
• Transition remediated accounts into steady-state operations with the client team
• Communicate findings clearly to founders and leadership — no jargon, no hedging

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT & STANDARDIZATION

• Evaluate existing accounting workflows and build improvements that increase accuracy without sacrificing speed
• Develop standardized procedures, templates, and checklists for common accounting scenarios
• Train accounting teams on new standards, technical guidance, and firm expectations
• Support capacity planning and resource alignment as the firm grows

LEADERSHIP & TEAM DEVELOPMENT

• Lead, mentor, and grow the QA/QC and cleanup team
• Provide technical coaching on accounting standards — GAAP, revenue recognition, inventory, COGS — to teammates at all levels
• Champion a culture where high-quality output is the expectation, not the exception

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION

• Partner with controllers, client service leads, and firm leadership on quality issues and risk
• Serve as subject matter expert on complex accounting questions — the person people bring the hard stuff to
• Support new client onboarding through initial financial assessments and cleanup scoping

What You Bring

• CPA required — this is a non-negotiable for a role built on accounting precision
• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience in a client services, outsourced accounting, or professional services environment
• Deep technical knowledge: US GAAP, revenue recognition, COGS, inventory, costing — you're the one colleagues call when they're stuck
• Comfortable with QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, Bill.com, Gusto, and Shopify (or willing to learn quickly)
• Experience with startup businesses — you understand the startup accounting lifecycle and how fast things can change
• Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) experience is required — many of our clients are in this world
• A systems thinker who builds process that scales, not workarounds that linger
• Strong communicator — you can translate accounting complexity into plain language for a founder who didn't go to business school
• Able to manage multiple client engagements simultaneously without dropping the anchor
• High ownership mentality: if something's broken, you fix it; if something's unclear, you clarify it

Why Crew

Working fractionally means you'll never be bored. You'll encounter a wide range of industries, business models, and accounting challenges and you'll build expertise faster than you would in any single client role.

We care deeply about doing the work right. That's why this role exists. And we're building the kind of firm where quality isn't just a checkbox, it's the whole point.

If you're ready to bring your accounting expertise to a team that takes the craft seriously, we'd love to talk.