Accounting & Finance Manager
Robert Half Finance & Accounting
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The Accounting & Finance Manager will lead core accounting operations and support accurate, timely financial reporting in San Francisco. The role oversees close activities, maintains general ledger integrity, and helps ensure accounts are reconciled and audit-ready. It also partners across the business to support planning, reporting, and process improvement.
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Description
We are looking for an experienced Accounting & Finance Manager to lead core accounting operations and support accurate, timely financial reporting in San Francisco, California. This role will oversee close activities, maintain the integrity of the general ledger, and help ensure accounts are fully reconciled and audit-ready. The ideal candidate brings strong technical accounting knowledge, sound judgment, and the ability to improve processes while partnering effectively across the business.
Responsibilities:
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Lead budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling to support business planning and strategic decisions.
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Track financial performance, analyze budget variances, and provide regular reports to leadership.
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Partner with department leaders to align operational goals with financial plans and projections.
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Assist with financial statement preparation, reporting, and GAAP-compliant accounting processes.
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Support audits, create ad hoc financial analyses, and improve reporting and financial workflows.
Requirements
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Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required.
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10+ years of accounting, finance, or financial analysis experience.
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Background in higher education, nonprofit, or public accounting preferred.
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Strong understanding of GAAP, financial reporting, and statement preparation.
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Advanced Excel and financial systems skills with a focus on process improvement.
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Analytical, detail-oriented professional with excellent problem-solving and organizational abilities.
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Effective communicator who can present financial data to non-finance audiences.
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Self-motivated team player able to manage multiple priorities and collaborate across departments.
Robert Half is the world’s first and largest specialized talent solutions firm that connects highly qualified job seekers to opportunities at great companies. We offer contract, temporary and permanent placement solutions for finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, and administrative and customer support roles.
Robert Half works to put you in the best position to succeed. We provide access to top jobs, competitive compensation and benefits, and free online training. Stay on top of every opportunity - whenever you choose - even on the go. Download the Robert Half app (https://www.roberthalf.com/us/en/mobile-app) and get 1-tap apply, notifications of AI-matched jobs, and much more.
Robert Half will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Benefits are available to contract/temporary professionals, including medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance. Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan. Visit roberthalf.gobenefits.net for more information.
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How this job compares
Set against the 1,494 open Accounting Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$133–180K/yr126 salary ranges
- US median$60–69/hr30 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 206 open Accounting Manager jobs in California and 1,494 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Robert Half50 open
- Amazon10 open
- Benchling6 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Accounting Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,306 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 890 of the 1,494 open Accounting Manager jobs (60%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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