Staff Accountant
Location: Primarily on-site in Austin, TX (Part-Time) – flexible with potential hybrid opportunities.
Our client is seeking a highly capable Staff Accountant for a distinctive part-time opportunity that goes well beyond traditional bookkeeping. This person will become the trusted owner of day-to-day accounting while also helping shape how the organization approaches financial reporting, technology, and recurring business processes. The role offers an unusual combination of hands-on accounting, meaningful autonomy, systems modernization, dashboard development, and thoughtful use of emerging technology. With a planned transition from the current accounting resource, this is an opportunity to learn the operation thoroughly, then make the function your own for the long term.
This Role Offers:
- A sustainable part-time schedule, typically approximately 15 to 20 hours per week, with predictable increases around month-end, quarter-end, and year-end.
- An opportunity to influence the next generation of the organization's accounting systems, reports, dashboards, and workflows.
- An established professional environment that values financial discipline while remaining practical, flexible, and open to better ways of working.
- The opportunity to build a long-term professional home while maintaining meaningful space for interests and commitments outside of work.
- A highly collaborative, modern professional environment with a distinctly Austin culture - smart, creative, casual, and relationship-driven.
Focus:
- Own core accounting activities including reconciliations, journal entries, account classification, and recurring close work.
- Maintain reliable financial records and turn accounting data into clear management reporting for firm leadership.
- Build practical dashboards and reporting views that make monthly and quarterly performance easier to understand.
- Help modernize the accounting environment by supporting evaluation, migration, and adoption of a new financial platform.
- Look for smarter ways to handle recurring finance workflows, reporting, costs, and administrative processes.
- Use AI and automation thoughtfully where they can improve efficiency while protecting confidential and sensitive information.
- Coordinate selected software, technology, and vendor administration needs that intersect with finance and office operations.
- Work directly with senior professionals on financial questions, priorities, and occasional client or vendor matters.
- Manage responsibilities independently after a structured transition from the current accounting resource.
- Plan workload around recurring deadlines, with additional availability during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end cycles.
Skill Set:
- Strong command of practical accounting, including reconciliations, journal entries, account classification, close activities, and financial reporting.
- Demonstrated ability to produce accurate, dependable financial information with strong attention to detail.
- Professional-services experience with the judgment and communication skills to work effectively with senior stakeholders.
- Background in public accounting, a larger professional-services organization, or a sophisticated legal environment is strongly preferred.
- Self-directed work style and the ability to manage an accounting function with limited day-to-day oversight.
- Comfort balancing firm accounting rules and data integrity with practical judgment in less structured business situations.
- Interest in improving systems, reporting, technology, and recurring workflows rather than simply maintaining the status quo.
- Comfort learning new accounting and business software and helping guide a system transition.
- Sound judgment around responsible use of AI, automation, data privacy, and confidential information.
- Long-term interest in a stable part-time role and the ability to support predictable peak periods around financial close cycles.
About Blue Signal:
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