Team – Skopos Collective LLC

Skopos Team

Job Description
Quickbooks Ninja / Jr. CFO (NYC - based)

Hi! Thanks for checking out our job opening! Interested candidates should email hello@skoposcollective.com with your resume, a message sharing why you’re interested in working with us, and what makes you an ideal candidate.

BIG PLUS! Send a video introducing yourself (up to 2 minutes using Loom or Zoom) and why you think you’re a good fit for Skopos and this position.

We look forward to meeting you!

About Skopos Collective

Skopos Collective offers independent designers, modern manufacturers, and mission-driven businesses the financial clarity needed to grow. We implement financial processes, organize data, and crunch numbers with our clients so they can make informed decisions for their business and other stakeholders.

We are a Brooklyn-based, female-led consultancy rooted in community values. We believe business ownership should not be restricted to a privileged few. Locally-owned businesses have an extraordinary impact on our communities, and we’re here to help them deepen roots where they’re planted.

Most importantly, business owners don’t know what they don’t know. We believe too many small business owners feel anxious or in the dark about their business finances because they’ve never had a strong business financial partner—we want to change that.

Learn more about our values, origin story, and service offerings at www.skoposcollective.com

Responsibilities

Who we’re looking for…We’re looking for an experienced Quickbooks Ninja to join our member Collective.

This is a part-time position starting 20 hours per week at $45-55/hour, depending on experience. Our first 90-days will be a probationary period.

We offer a variety of opportunities to learn through our client projects and also through our educational programs, Numbers Lab.

Remote is OK, with the expectation that you can meet a few times per week for a client meeting, to attend our classes or connect on client work at our coworking space.

This is a great opportunity for someone who has a passion for entrepreneurship and strong communities. We value colleagues and collaborators who give a damn, think creatively, and execute strategically. Our clients are all unique so your work will be dynamic and require an agile, creative approach to problem-solving. We are process driven, believe over-communication can be our friend, ask the right questions, and want team members to bring their whole selves to work!

Your focus will be on leading strategic financial projects for our clients that result in improved processes, stronger pricing capabilities and data-driven insights.

Experience and skills we are seeking for our Quickbooks Ninja role include:

Experience with Quickbooks Clean Up
Strong understanding of accounting principles and values clean books
Does not use Journal Entries to balance reconciliation differences
Establishing new QBO files
Reconciliations
An understanding of memorized reports and Management Report creation in QBO
Experience with QBO Budgets and running Actual vs. Budget reports
Use of Purchase Orders

Understanding of Customer Deposits
Tracking of Job or Client costs in QBO.
Experience with, or interest in learning, how to build budgets and projections
Able to document quickbooks & accounting report processes.
Aptitude to work with software integrations
Experience working with manufacturers and/or e-comm businesses
Maintaining worksheets to support data analysis and actions taken

In this role, you will:

Work closely with the Founder to outline project objectives and build quarterly action plans to achieve those objectives.
Lead a team of consultants through project execution and management
Work towards the end deliverables which is always accurate and useful financial reports

Gather, review and analyze information, formulate and test hypotheses, and develop and communicate potential solutions to client challenges. You will also present results to the team for group buy-in (as needed) and implement solutions alone or with other Skopos team members.
Set up and manage cloud technology integrations as needed to improve processes with the goal of having timely, useful, and accurate financial reports

Communicate with the rest of our team as needed concerning any client issues that require our support
You’ll work in teams of typically 1 – 3 members of our Collective to identify, explore and implement potential solutions for a specific client problems or challenges that make lasting improvements to their performance and realize their prioritized goals

Qualifications

Proficiency working with data in excel and google sheets (5+ years experience)

You love spreadsheets, wrangling data and have a strong foundation in financial modeling
Proficiency with QuickBooks Online (Quickbooks Desktop a strong plus)
You’re a tech guru with strong computer skills and an aptitude for learning new tools
Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, or related field of study
Minimum 10 years of experience in accounting working on reviews, compilations, write-ups, and forecasts
You communicate well in various forms (chat, text, email, phone). Because we work remotely, great communication is of utmost importance.
You appreciate processes, and can make recommendations on how to drive process improvements internally as a team.
You are dynamic and comfortable with ambiguous, ever-changing client situations
You align with our business values and missions

Big Pluses!

You are based in the NYC-metro area and able to meet with a client onsite as needed. Other than that, remote work is OK!
Managerial accounting experience
Experience working with manufacturing and construction companies
Experience with financial data visualizations
Experience with inventory management

To apply, email hello@skoposcollective.com with the following:

In lieu of a cover letter, please share a casual video introducing yourself (up to 2 minutes using Loom or Zoom) and why you think you’re a good fit for Skopos and this position
Resume

We encourage our team, clients and partners to bring their true selves to work. We believe that a diverse team enables us to cultivate and improve upon our culture of inclusion and collaboration. As an equal opportunity company, we welcome the contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs. So however you identify and whatever your background, we encourage you to apply for this role if you share our passion for helping our entrepreneurial clients build awesome businesses.