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Are you an accounting professional who thrives at the intersection of technical accuracy, project leadership, and client service? As an Assistant Controller on Pinion’s Accounting Services (PAS) team, you’ll play a critical role in delivering highquality financial results while collaborating with others. This role combines handson accounting expertise with project management and meaningful client interaction—making it ideal for professionals who enjoy both detail and leadership.

In this position, you’ll serve as a key point of coordination between bookkeepers, controllers, tax, and audit & assurance (A&A) teams to ensure timely, accurate, and insightful deliverables for clients, many of whom operate within the agriculture industry.

What our team does:
PAS is where public and private accounting meet. PAS serves a wide range of clients and offers a vast array of services from after-the-fact bookkeeping to full back office monthly close procedures. As a member of the team, you will get the client variety that being a public accountant offers with the general ledger-focused nature of private accounting. The PAS team works hand in hand with the Tax and A&A teams as we act as the client’s accounting staff and finalize financial statements for others in the firm to prepare their final deliverables.

What you’ll be doing:

• Responsible for performing a detailed review of the financials and supporting work papers
• Works timely to meet project deadlines established with the controller
• Works with client to acquire the necessary information to produce the financials
• Works with the Controller to discuss additional reporting requirements within the scope of the service agreement
• Assists with training and developing Bill Pay Specialists and Bookkeepers
• Supervise a team of 2 to 4 Bill Pay Specialists and Bookkeepers, assisting with training and development
• Documents and develops client-specific processes and trains staff
• Actively participates in client onboarding
• Creates and develops reporting templates based on reports agreed upon in the service agreement. Works with the Controller to identify reporting needs.
• Solves problems with peers, escalating up only to the level necessary
• Supports both internal and external client’s software needs
• Demonstrates initiative to project lead and oversee team
• Communicates regularly with the controller

What you’ll need for this position:

Role-Specific Qualifications

• • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
  • 3+ years of accounting experience, prior assistant controller or controller experience preferred
  • Experience with financial reporting
  • Demonstrated success in preparing and presenting accounting client deliverables
  • Prior supervisory or teamlead experience is valued

Digital Fluency

• • Proficiency with QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, and Xero
  • Comfort navigating and learning new technologies, including AIenabled accounting tools and digital workflows
  • Ability to troubleshoot and support accounting software used by internal teams and clients

Critical Thinking & Professional Skills

• • Strong analytical and problemsolving abilities
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain financial information clearly
  • Detailoriented mindset with the ability to balance accuracy and efficiency
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor, coach, and build trust within a team

Bonus Qualifications

• • Experience working with agricultural clients
  • Experience with Basis AI accounting software

What’s in it for you:

• Flexible work environment: Remote, hybrid, or in-office arrangmenets
• A people-centered culture, with fun included among our core firm values
• A robust training and development program designed to help you discover your distinct abilities and use them to grow yourself and the firm
• Freedom to explore you areas of interest
• Pinion offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package, including health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, 401k/profit-sharing, paid time off and holidays, flexible work arrangements, and paid parental leave.

Compensation: In some states and municipalities, Pinion is required by law to include a reasonable estimate for range of compensation. When making compensation decisions, Pinion takes into account a variety of factors including but not limited to experience, skills, certifications/licenses, and geographic location. The wide range for this role reasonably accounts for these factors. Specific compensation decisions are made based on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $56,000 to $85,000/year.

Remote Eligibility: This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at a Pinion office or attendance at offsites, as requested/required by the firm and/or your supervisor. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Pinion has a registered entity and is actively hiring. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check the list periodically if the state you live in is on the exclusion list.

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you will not be penalized for redacting or removing age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. For intern applicants, we will need the date you anticipate being available to work full-time in order to be considered for a future full-time conversion offer.

EEO: Pinion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Attest services are provided by KCoe Isom, LLP, a licensed CPA firm.

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What you’ll need for this position:

Role-Specific Qualifications

• • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
  • 3+ years of accounting experience, prior assistant controller or controller experience preferred
  • Experience with financial reporting
  • Demonstrated success in preparing and presenting accounting client deliverables
  • Prior supervisory or teamlead experience is valued

Digital Fluency

• • Proficiency with QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, and Xero
  • Comfort navigating and learning new technologies, including AIenabled accounting tools and digital workflows
  • Ability to troubleshoot and support accounting software used by internal teams and clients

Critical Thinking & Professional Skills

• • Strong analytical and problemsolving abilities
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain financial information clearly
  • Detailoriented mindset with the ability to balance accuracy and efficiency
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor, coach, and build trust within a team

Bonus Qualifications

• • Experience working with agricultural clients
  • Experience with Basis AI accounting software

What’s in it for you:

• Flexible work environment: Remote, hybrid, or in-office arrangmenets
• A people-centered culture, with fun included among our core firm values
• A robust training and development program designed to help you discover your distinct abilities and use them to grow yourself and the firm
• Freedom to explore you areas of interest
• Pinion offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package, including health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, 401k/profit-sharing, paid time off and holidays, flexible work arrangements, and paid parental leave.

Compensation: In some states and municipalities, Pinion is required by law to include a reasonable estimate for range of compensation. When making compensation decisions, Pinion takes into account a variety of factors including but not limited to experience, skills, certifications/licenses, and geographic location. The wide range for this role reasonably accounts for these factors. Specific compensation decisions are made based on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $56,000 to $85,000/year.

Remote Eligibility: This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at a Pinion office or attendance at offsites, as requested/required by the firm and/or your supervisor. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Pinion has a registered entity and is actively hiring. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check the list periodically if the state you live in is on the exclusion list.

Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you will not be penalized for redacting or removing age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. For intern applicants, we will need the date you anticipate being available to work full-time in order to be considered for a future full-time conversion offer.

EEO: Pinion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Attest services are provided by KCoe Isom, LLP, a licensed CPA firm.

#LI-REMOTE