Accounting Manager

Clearwater is seeking an experienced Accounting Manager to join its Finance team in Chicago. This role involves overseeing accounting operations, managing month-end, quarterly and financial close processes, and providing strategic guidance through the development of accounting policies. The successful candidate will report directly to the Controller and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to provide valuable insight. This role is critical in ensuring that all reporting timelines are met and financial information is accurate to support management in making informed decisions that drive growth and profitability.

Must Have

• Manage the monthly/quarterly/annual close process
• Review and approve journal entries and account reconciliations
• Identify and implement process improvements
• Assist in preparing consolidated accounts in accordance with US GAAP
• Assist in preparing statutory accounts in accordance with local GAAP
• Provide support to and manage timely and effective audits
• Provide accounting advice to departments on proper application of accounting policies
• CPA required
• 7+ years of accounting experience
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field
• Strong understanding of technical accounting practices including SEC reporting
• Excellent analytical skills and advanced Excel modeling
• Strong communication skills acting as internal advisor

Good to Have

• Combination of Public Accounting and large Corporation experience highly preferred
• Experience with NetSuite a plus
• SaaS/PaaS/IaaS and Fintech industry experience a plus

Perks & Benefits

• Bonus
• RSU's

Clearwater is seeking an experienced Accounting Manager to join its Finance team in Chicago. This role involves overseeing accounting operations, managing month-end, quarterly and financial close processes, and providing strategic guidance through the development of accounting policies. The successful candidate will report directly to the Controller and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to provide valuable insight. This role is critical in ensuring that all reporting timelines are met and financial information is accurate to support management in making informed decisions that drive growth and profitability.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the monthly/quarterly/annual close process to ensure timely completion of financial closing procedures
• Review and approve journal entries and account reconciliations
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the monthly, quarterly and annual reporting processes
• Assist in preparing consolidated accounts in accordance with US GAAP
• Assist in preparing statutory accounts in accordance with local GAAP
• Provide support to and manage timely and effective audits
• Provide accounting advise to departments on the proper application of accounting policies

Requirements:

• CPA required
• 7+ years of accounting experience
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field
• Combination of Public Accounting and large Corporation experience highly preferred
• Strong understanding of technical accounting practices including SEC reporting
• Excellent analytical skills and advanced Excel modeling
• Experience with NetSuite a plus
• Strong communication skills acting as internal advisor
• SaaS/PaaS/IaaS and Fintech industry experience a plus

Salary Range: $115,000-$140,000 + Bonus + RSU's

Welcome

Thank you for your interest in a career with Clearwater!

About us

Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: CWAN) is transforming investment management with the industry’s most comprehensive cloud-native platform for institutional investors across global public and private markets. While legacy systems create risk, inefficiency, and data fragmentation, Clearwater’s single-instance, multi-tenant architecture delivers real-time data and AI-driven insights throughout the investment lifecycle. The platform eliminates information silos by integrating portfolio management, trading, investment accounting, reconciliation, regulatory reporting, performance, compliance, and risk analytics in one unified system. Serving leading insurers, asset managers, hedge funds, banks, corporations, and governments, Clearwater supports over $8.8 trillion in assets globally. Learn more at www.clearwateranalytics.com.

Don’t meet every single requirement?

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