TECHNICAL ACCOUNTING CONSULTANT
ABOUT CFO'S DOMAIN
CFO's Domain is a national accounting and finance consulting and recruiting organization serving CFOs and their stakeholders. Our consultants support organizations across a range of industries, ownership structures, and stages of development, providing experienced assistance when clients face capacity constraints, technical complexity, transformation, or time-sensitive deliverables.
Our consultants receive competitive compensation, access to benefits, exposure to high-impact assignments, and opportunities that support continued professional development.
OVERVIEW
Our client is a privately held, venture-backed technology company whose finance function is maturing alongside the business. The company is looking for a Part-Time Interim Technical Accounting Consultant to serve as a senior accounting resource for complex, judgment-intensive, and non-routine matters. This is an advisory-focused engagement rather than a day-to-day accounting role. The consultant will help leadership assess technical matters, prepare audit-ready documentation, review proposed accounting treatments, and establish sound positions before matters are finalized or presented to external parties.
The ideal candidate is a CPA with strong technical accounting, public accounting, financial reporting, or advisory experience who can operate independently, communicate clearly, and apply U.S. GAAP in a practical business environment.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide senior technical accounting guidance on complex, unusual, or judgment-sensitive matters.
- Research relevant U.S. GAAP guidance and translate technical requirements into clear, practical accounting recommendations.
- Prepare, review, and improve technical accounting memoranda, position papers, accounting analyses, and supporting documentation.
- Advise on revenue recognition matters involving contractual terms and performance obligations across the company's commercial arrangements.
- Evaluate the accounting implications of non-routine business activities, including financing matters, ownership-related transactions, restructuring activity, strategic arrangements, or other one-time events.
- Partner with finance and accounting leadership to evaluate proposed accounting treatments before period-end close, external review, or financial statement issuance.
- Support audit and review readiness by ensuring accounting conclusions are appropriately researched, documented, supported, and consistently applied.
- Assess the accounting implications of new offerings, commercial structures, contractual arrangements, or changes in business operations.
- Provide guidance related to financial statement presentation, classification, disclosures, and supporting schedules.
- Help strengthen accounting policies, technical files, documentation standards, review procedures, and internal controls.
- Review accounting workflows, reporting outputs, close support, and system-generated information when technical accounting considerations are involved.
- Identify potential accounting risks and recommend practical solutions that balance technical accuracy, business realities, reporting requirements, and operational efficiency.
- Assist with ad hoc accounting research, transaction analysis, financial reporting projects, and other priority initiatives.
- Communicate accounting conclusions clearly through written memoranda, concise summaries, working papers, and discussions with leadership.
- Operate flexibly in a part-time consulting capacity, with workload varying based on business activity, reporting deadlines, and emerging technical matters.
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Active CPA license required.
- 6+ years of progressive experience in technical accounting, public accounting, audit, advisory, financial reporting, controllership, or a related discipline.
- Big Four, national public accounting, or recognized accounting advisory experience strongly preferred.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, technical accounting research, financial reporting, audit support, and documentation standards.
- Demonstrated experience preparing or reviewing technical accounting memoranda and supporting conclusions for auditors, controllers, or senior finance leadership.
- Strong revenue recognition experience, including ASC 606 and the evaluation of complex contractual or commercial arrangements.
- Experience analyzing non-routine matters involving financing, equity, ownership structures, restructuring, contractual changes, or other significant transactions.
- Experience supporting privately held, growth-oriented, changing, or operationally complex organizations preferred.
- Familiarity with modern ERP systems and financial reporting environments preferred.
- Ability to work effectively with lean accounting teams that require senior-level technical guidance without adding unnecessary complexity.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical accounting matters to both accounting and non-accounting stakeholders.
- Strong judgment, responsiveness, attention to detail, and the ability to produce clear, defensible, audit-ready work.
- Comfortable working independently in a part-time consulting engagement with changing priorities and intermittent requests.
Pay: $80.00 - $110.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Are you comfortable working in a part-time interim consulting capacity where needs may arise intermittently around technical accounting questions, audit readiness, and complex transaction review?
- Are you a CPA with 6+ years of accounting, technical accounting, audit, advisory, or controllership experience?
- Have you prepared or reviewed technical accounting memos supporting U.S. GAAP conclusions for auditors, finance leadership, or external stakeholders?
- Please briefly describe your experience with ASC 606 revenue recognition, especially in ecommerce, payments, transaction-based revenue, SaaS, marketplace, fintech, or similar business models.
- Have you evaluated complex or non-routine transactions such as loan forgiveness, founder-related arrangements, equity-linked items, customer credits, incentives, or special commercial programs?
Work Location: Remote
