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Director of Accounting Operations (Hybrid)

Seattle, WA 98134

Posted: 04/07/2026 Job Number: 32120997 Salary: 200000

Job Description


Summary
We are seeking a Director of Accounting Operations to lead scalable, system enabled accounting processes in a high growth, project driven environment. Reporting to the Controller, this role is a key member of the finance leadership team with responsibility for building structure, driving transformation, and enabling operational excellence across core accounting functions.



Key Responsibilities
  • Lead end to end accounting operations (Order to Cash and Procure to Pay) with accountability for accuracy, efficiency, and scalability
  • Drive ERP implementation, including process design, data readiness, testing, and post go live optimization
  • Build standardized, system enabled processes that reduce manual work and improve consistency
  • Establish and use operational metrics (billing accuracy, DSO, cycle times) to guide decisions and performance
  • Define clear decision ownership within AR/AP to reduce escalation and strengthen accountability
  • Identify root causes and implement sustainable, cross functional solutions
  • Partner with internal teams (e.G., Project Management, Procurement, IT, Finance) to align upstream and downstream processes
  • Strengthen internal controls, ensure audit readiness, and maintain defensible processes
  • Lead automation and continuous improvement initiatives
  • Build and scale high performing teams in a fast paced, evolving environment



Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field (required)
  • CPA (required)
  • 10+ years of progressive accounting/finance experience, including leadership of AR/AP or shared services
  • Proven experience leading large scale ERP implementations with ownership of process design
  • Demonstrated success scaling teams and processes during growth or transformation
  • Strong systems thinker with ability to connect operational inputs to financial outcomes
  • Experience in project based or complex operational environments preferred
  • Data driven decision maker with strong cross functional leadership skills
  • Ability to operate independently, lead through ambiguity, and drive outcomes without reliance on escalation



What Success Looks Like
  • Decisions owned at the right level with reduced escalation
  • Standardized, system enabled processes with measurable improvements in key metrics
  • Strong ERP adoption and alignment across functions
  • Audit ready environment with well designed controls
  • High performing team operating with clarity, accountability, and consistency



Ideal Profile

A strategic, systems oriented leader who brings structure to ambiguity, owns outcomes end to end, and drives scalable solutions through data, process design, and cross functional influence. This is a builder role for someone who can architect the future state and execute toward it.

Meet Your Recruiter

Kim Randolph
Owner, Director of Recruiting

Kim Randolph is a Washington native and graduated from University of Washington with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication. Shortly after she became a Recruiting Assistant at a Bellevue technical staffing agency and never left the recruiting industry for the past 25+ years. After launching the Seattle Accounting/Finance division for Harvey Nash and building it into a 5M division she left to become a founder of Rylem. Rylem was a Seattle based staffing company that provided Acct/Finance and technology professionals with an internal staff of 25 and 20M revenue. She owned Rylem for 10 years and as the Director of Recruiting she built a substantial recruiting and sourcing division, training over 100 recruiting professionals. She sold her shares in Rylem in 2017 to focus on family and do some intriguing consulting work for CFO Selections and Executive Recruiting for Alaska Air. Kim joined Pikemann in 2020 as a Partner and is enjoying again the energy and excitement of building a staffing company that truly focuses on integrity and helping people’s careers in any way possible. Kim resides in Lake Tapps, WA with her husband and 4 daughters. She loves traveling, boating, water sports, skiing, and the Seahawks!

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