Accounting Manager

Department: Accounting

Job Summary:

Lerch Bates is seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Accounting Manager to join our team. This is a hands-on leadership role for a manager who both leads and actively participates in the work, including general ledger maintenance, tax filings, and month-end close. In this role, you will oversee the full spectrum of accounting operations such as project and cost accounting, financial reporting, reconciliations, and audits, while ensuring accuracy and timeliness through direct involvement in day-to-day activities.

You will contribute to forecasting, budgeting, and financial reporting, providing accurate data, insights, and analysis to support planning efforts. This position is ideal for a leader who can balance execution with forward-looking awareness, while developing a strong team and ensuring financial integrity across multiple entities in a collaborative environment where your expertise directly supports business decisions and project performance.

About Lerch Bates:

Lerch Bates (LB) is a global technical consulting firm focused on improving how buildings perform for owners, designers, and the people who use them every day. For more than 75 years we’ve partnered on some of the world’s most complex and high‑profile projects. Today we provide Total Building Performance expertise that pairs Building Science and Building Flow with one integrated team delivery. Our work spans design, construction, investigation, repair, management and modernization with one consistent goal: helping clients make confident, well‑informed decisions in an increasingly complex Built Environment.

We are each 100% equal owners in the LB ESOP, which drives our ownership mindset and shapes everything we do. At Lerch Bates, your expertise matters, your voice carries weight, and your work directly contributes to our shared success as OneLB. We invest in professional growth, collaboration, and technical excellence, supporting challenging and meaningful work alongside people who care about getting it right. If you’re motivated by solving real problems, working on impactful projects, and being part of a team that truly owns both the work and the outcome, you’re ready to be more than an employee. You’re ready to be an employee-owner.

What You’ll Do:

The duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed in this position. They are not intended to prescribe or restrict the assignments that management may make.

• File tax forms with federal, state, and local government agencies.
• Perform general cost and project accounting.
• Review 3rd party prepared monthly balance sheets, income statements, and profit and loss statements.
• Assist with maintaining the general ledger.
• Provide outside auditors with assistance; gather necessary account information and documents to perform annual audit.
• Reconcile accounts and close the monthly books.
• Monthly bank account reconciliation reviews and approvals, verify deposits and address inquiries from banks.
• Reconcile cash disbursement accounts, payroll, customer accounts, and other financial accounts; manage accounts receivable collections.
• Verify and/or assist with payment of invoices associated with accounts payable and ensure payments are charged to the appropriate accounts. Final review and approvals on A/P check runs.
• Approve bank wires, EFTs, and transfers of funds for applicable accounts.
• Be the signer on applicable bank accounts.
• Manage the purchasing and invoicing system.
• Interface with customers, CFO, accountants, and auditors.
• Collaborate in strategic planning and financial forecasting.
• Maintain knowledge of acceptable accounting practices and procedures.
• Evaluate accounting processes and systems and implement optimizations.
• Manage the day-to-day supervision, training, and development of the Accounts Payable team and General Accountant.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

What You’ll Bring:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or related field required
• CPA (preferred)
• MBA (preferred)
• Experience with Deltek (preferred).
• Experience working with multiple domestic and legal entities.
• Experience with financial reporting requirements.
• Minimum 5 years experience in accounting/finance/project accounting.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience managing an accounting team.
• Thorough, in-depth working knowledge of the internal accounting standards of small businesses, including customer invoicing, AR management, AP management, account reconciliations, payroll, sales tax remittances, accrual account maintenance, balance sheet schedules, and financial statement preparation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Knowledge of general financial accounting, cost accounting, and revenue recognition.
• Familiar with Sales/Use and Franchise Taxes
• Understanding of and the ability to adhere to generally accepted accounting principles.
• Ability to correctly prepare tax reports.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or similar software, and accounting software.

Why work with Lerch Bates?

• Competitive Compensation
• Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance – Comprehensive coverage options
• Paid Time Off (PTO) – Includes vacation, sick leave, and personal days; starts at 17 days per year and increases with tenure
• Paid Holidays – 9 company-recognized holidays per year
• Retirement & Stock Programs – 401(k) with up to 6% employer match and 100% employer-provided Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP)
• Short- & Long-Term Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance – Employer-paid coverage with voluntary options for additional protection
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – Support for mental health and well-being
• Paid Parental Leave
• Charitable & Volunteer Time Off
• Incentive & Performance-Based Bonuses
• Education & Training Support – Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
• Additional Perks – Birthday bonus, paid business travel, military leave, jury duty, bereavement leave, and optional accident/critical illness coverage

Be more than just an employee…

Lerch Bates is 100% employee-owned! Our employee-owners bring a distinct “we own what we do” brand of technical consulting to every project and partnership. When you work with us, you join a company with an ownership mindset. Expect responsibility, service, and performance in everything we do. So, what does that mean for you? After a certain service time, you are eligible for stock ownership, which essentially works as an additional wealth accumulation and/or retirement account! 

CORE Values: Ownership . Community . Integrity . Respect . Optimism

Working Environment:

This role involves both physical and mental demands and may be performed in various settings, including offices, construction sites, and confined spaces like elevator pits. Tasks often require frequent movement in multiple directions. Lerch Bates will provide reasonable accommodations upon request through Human Resources.

Physical Demands:

This role requires regular sitting, talking, and hearing in meetings and by phone. Employees must navigate tight spaces, climb ladders, move around construction sites, take measurements, and travel by car, air, or rail. Duties may involve working at heights and in confined spaces, using hands for tasks like typing and operating elevator components, and applying up to 30 lbs. of force. Close visual attention is also required.

Mental Demands:

This position requires strong written and verbal communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills. Employees must interpret complex information, apply mathematical and logical reasoning, quickly learn new skills, and manage detailed, multitask workloads under shifting deadlines. Regular interaction with executives, colleagues, clients, and external stakeholders is also expected.

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a pre-employment background check and drug test. The drug test includes screening for marijuana, regardless of state or local laws permitting its use. A conditional offer of employment will be rescinded if a candidate fails either the background check or the drug test. This requirement is mandated by federal regulations applicable to our government contracting obligations.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.