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Accounting Manager

TAD PGS, Inc.

Los Alamitos, CAJob$125–135K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$125–135K/yr
Location
Los Alamitos, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

The Accounting Manager will oversee daily accounting operations, with primary ownership of accounts receivable, accounts payable, and payroll. The role ensures transactional integrity, compliance, and accurate reporting while leading and mentoring staff. It also supports close processes and audits, manages tax and royalty reporting, and drives improvements in accounting KPIs.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Payroll ManagementCalifornia Wage and Hour RegulationsMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft ExcelAccounting SoftwareDatabasesAccounting PrinciplesCritical ThinkingMultitaskingProblem SolvingInterpersonal CommunicationHRIS PlatformsAerospace Accounting

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Accounting or Finance5+ Years Accounting Manager ExperienceAerospace ExperienceManaged Payroll Team

Benefits

401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Medical Insurance

Full job description

We have an outstanding career opportunity for anAccounting Managerto join a leading Company located in theLos Alamitos, CAsurrounding area.

Salary: $125k to $135k

The Accounting Manager will oversee the daily operations of the accounting department, with primary ownership of Accounts Receivable (A/R), Accounts Payable (A/P), and Payroll (PR) functions . This role ensures financial transactional integrity, compliance, and accurate reporting while leading and mentoring core transactional staff.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Read, write and comprehend simple to moderate instructions, business correspondence and memos.

  • Effectively present information in one-on-one and small to medium group situations to customers and other employees.

  • Present and interpret data prepared either numerically or graphically.

  • Apply common sense understanding to carry out written or oral instructions.

  • Deal with and solve simple to moderate problems that present themselves in the normal course of daily activities.

  • Oversee daily accounting operations relating to Payroll, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and cash flow forecasting.

  • Manage A/P transactions, including timely and accurate invoice entry through disbursements and follow on reporting.

  • Manage the A/R process, including monitoring of daily invoicing for proper revenue recognition, timely processing of cash receipts and review of aging reports.

  • Supervise and verify end-to-end processing of hourly and salaried employee compensation.

  • Support month-end and year end close processes, including preparation of journal entries and account reconciliations.

  • Support annual financial audits.

  • Responsible for sales and use tax compliance and reporting.

  • Responsible for required royalty compliance and reporting.

  • Develop and drive improvement in accounting KPIs.

  • Adhere to proper accounting methods, policies and principles.

  • Train and mentor new and current employees.

  • This job description is not all-inclusive of all duties. Other duties may be assigned.

  • Will supervise A/P, A/R and PR staff.

Basic Hiring Criteria:

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.

  • 5+ years of experience as an Accounting Manager.

  • Experience with CA-specific wage and hour regulations and management of end-to-end full-cycle payroll for salaried and hourly employees.

  • Proficient in MS Office applications, particularly MS Excel.

  • Strong knowledge and experience with accounting software and databases.

  • Understanding and knowledge of accounting principles, practices and standards.

  • Critical thinker with ability to multitask and problem-solving skills.

  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

  • Hands-on experience using an HRIS platform (such as Paycom, ADP, Workday, UKG, Paylocity, or similar) to process or manage payroll, time and attendance, or employee data.

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

  • Must have previous aerospace experience.

  • Must have managed a payroll team.

  • Must be familiar with CA payroll compliance.

  • Must have experience with HRIS platforms (Paycom, Workday, etc.).

Benefits offered vary by contract. Depending on your temporary assignment, benefits may include direct deposit, free career counseling services, 401(k), select paid holidays, short-term disability insurance, skills training, employee referral bonus, and affordable medical coverage plan, and DailyPay (in some locations). For a full description of benefits available to you, be sure to talk with your recruiter.

Military connected talent encouraged to apply.

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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

  • The California Fair Chance Act

  • Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

  • Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

  • San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

How this job compares

Set against the 1,488 open Accounting Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$125–135K/yr
  • California median$133–180K/yr123 salary ranges
  • US median$110–163K/yr846 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $130K, is 16% below the California median midpoint ($155K) — in the lowest quarter of Accounting Manager salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 196 open Accounting Manager jobs in California and 1,488 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Accounting Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,303 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 895 of the 1,488 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 5, 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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