[Hiring] Accounting Project and Implementation Specialist @Burkland Associates

Role Description

The Accounting Project and Implementation Specialist executes BKA's project-based accounting work and provides support for group-wide process and system implementations. Operating outside recurring monthly production, this role directly manages finite engagements like historical cleanups, new-client onboardings, and other client project requests. Additionally, it assists the broader team in testing, adopting, and refining new software and workflows designed to improve efficiency.

Success in this role means:

• Engagements delivered accurately, on scope, and within budget.
• Clean, well-documented handoffs to the production team.
• Championing new initiatives under the guidance of the Director.
• Helping implement new tools that improve efficiency and quality across the division's client work.

This job description outlines the core of the role, but it isn't meant to cover everything you'll do. As Burkland grows, your responsibilities may shift and new projects, tasks, or priorities may be added along the way. We hope you'll see that as a chance to stretch, learn, and broaden your skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work history.
• 5+ years of hands-on accounting work, including month-end close, account reconciliations, and accrual-basis financial statement preparation under U.S. GAAP.
• Experience creating new processes and being a change champion for new tools and processes that improve efficiency.
• Demonstrated ability to complete historical cleanup and catch-up engagements, including reconstructing records from incomplete or inconsistent source data.
• Background in new-client implementation, such as chart of accounts design, opening balance setup, and connecting supporting systems.
• Comfort working within fixed-fee or budgeted scopes and tracking time against them.
• Ability to manage several concurrent engagements independently in a remote environment.
• Strong organizational skills and project management skills.

Requirements

• Technical accounting judgment — knows what accurate, close-ready books look like and can quickly spot what is off in unfamiliar or messy records.
• Attention to detail — reviews work thoroughly and consistently, catching errors others miss without losing sight of materiality.
• Project management — plans and runs multiple engagements/projects at once, setting timelines and milestones, prioritizing competing deadlines, and keeping clients, production team, and Director informed of status at every stage.
• AI fluency — hands-on comfort using AI tools in accounting and operational work, with sound judgment about where AI adds value, where human review is required, and how to protect client data.
• Communication — serves as the client's main point of contact during cleanup and implementation, setting expectations, requesting missing information, and explaining findings and scope changes in plain terms.

Benefits

• Base pay range target: $115,000 - $130,000.
• Final offer amounts depend on multiple factors such as candidate experience and expertise, geographic location, total compensation, and market data.
• Full-time regular positions are eligible for 401(k), health benefits, and other benefits; some of these benefits may be available for part-time.

Physical & Environmental Demands

This is a remote position. Work is primarily performed at a computer for extended periods, requiring the ability to use a keyboard, view a screen, and communicate via video and phone. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EEO Statement

Burkland Associates is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Burkland Associates is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or another legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit our careers page.