Top Accounting Associate Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Provides bookkeeping, accounting, tax, payroll, reconciliation, reporting, audit, and client onboarding support for U.S. and international clients. The role serves Turkish-speaking clients and requires preparation of individual, corporate, sales, and employment tax returns. Responsibilities also include maintaining financial records, improving accounting processes, supporting audits and special projects, and communicating with clients and internal teams to meet deadlines.

Performs private markets fund accounting, including bank reconciliations, journal entries, workpapers, capital activity, investment transactions, accruals, carried-interest waterfalls, management fee calculations, and audit support. Analyzes investment documentation and collaborates with clients, auditors, legal counsel, and tax advisors to deliver accurate reporting within deadlines.

Provides technical accounting and financial reporting advisory services for mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, debt raising, and other capital markets transactions. Advises clients on transaction structures, GAAP, IFRS, regulatory reporting, and complex accounting issues. Analyzes financial data, manages project coordination, develops client relationships, and mentors junior staff while delivering recommendations that support business value.

Oversee fund accounting and financial reporting for alternative investment clients, including NAV calculations, capital allocations, management fees, carried interest, financial statements, audits, budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling. Serve as a key liaison to clients, auditors, administrators, and service providers while supporting CFO advisory work, accounting systems, controls, and process improvements.

Supports the Finance team with transaction entry, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll data entry, and month-, quarter-, and year-end close activities. The role also assists with audit documentation, invoice tracking, collections follow-up, payroll preparation, workpaper filing, and ad hoc accounting projects under the guidance of the Accounting Manager.

Leads global pharmaceutical revenue accounting, technical accounting assessments, revenue recognition policies, SEC disclosures, order-to-cash accounting, royalty accounting, and SOX controls. Reviews complex commercial contracts, prepares U.S. GAAP memos, oversees monthly close activities, supports audits, and coordinates with U.S. and international Finance teams. The role also manages accounting for an international pharmacy program and partners with auditors, internal stakeholders, and third-party logistics providers.

Support accounts payable, state sales tax filings and registrations, broader tax compliance, and monthly close activities. Responsibilities include invoice review, payment processing, reconciliations, accruals, amortization, and coordinating with external tax advisors. The role also identifies opportunities to improve accounting processes, controls, and workflows in a fast-growing, remote technology company.

The Accounting Associate records transactions under GAAP, supports month- and year-end close, and prepares tax and audit materials. The role produces and analyzes financial statements, performs variance analysis, develops KPIs, and supports financial models, budgets, and rolling forecasts. The associate also identifies cost-saving opportunities, provides strategic financial insights, and contributes to ad hoc analysis projects while collaborating across teams in a remote environment.

Supports portfolio accounting operations for alternative investments by processing investment documents, validating AI-extracted data, reconciling positions and valuations, maintaining fund and entity data, and resolving exceptions. Partners with advisors, investment operations, technology teams, fund administrators, and general partners to ensure accurate reporting and client records. Improves workflows, procedures, data integrity, and spreadsheet-based operating tools.

Teach accounting courses, maintain scholarship and professional development, and direct an undergraduate accounting program. Responsibilities include program strategy, faculty and student support, curriculum development, assessment, accreditation compliance, stakeholder collaboration, shared governance, and service. The role requires a terminal accounting degree, accounting certification, higher education teaching experience, practical accounting experience, and online teaching experience.

Supports accounting operations in a multi-entity environment, including month-end close, GAAP-compliant journal entries, financial schedules, fixed assets, credit cards, Concur expenses, vendor payments, payroll, reconciliations, government reporting, 1099 reporting, and internal controls. Responds to inquiries, troubleshoots issues, and helps improve finance processes.

Support day-to-day transactional accounting: process AR/AP, post payroll to the general ledger, reconcile bank and credit card accounts, prepare journal entries, assist month-end close, maintain vendor records, support financial reporting and tax filings, and improve accounting processes.

Lead accounting advisory engagements for commercial and private-equity-backed clients. Responsibilities include supporting monthly closes, reconciliations, financial reporting, SEC filings, budgeting, forecasting, internal controls, audits, and cloud finance-system implementations. Advise on AI and automation, financial-system integration during acquisitions, and operational improvements. Build client relationships, lead teams, mentor junior staff, resolve complex issues, and contribute to business development.

Provide accounting advisory to clients during business transformations, research complex accounting issues, prepare memos/analyses/presentations, partner directly with clients and senior leaders, execute workstreams, and help improve financial reporting, controls, and processes under US GAAP and IFRS.

Advise clients on complex accounting and reporting issues (US GAAP and IFRS), perform research and analysis, develop memos and client deliverables, support transactions and IPO readiness, improve financial processes, collaborate with senior leaders, and coach junior team members.

Support insurance and reinsurance accounting by recording transactions in SAP, performing reconciliations, supporting month‑end close, preparing IFRS 17/4 reporting and variance analysis, maintaining controls and documentation, assisting audits, and contributing to process improvements and UAT.

Perform investment accounting tasks including journal entries, reconciliations, investment reporting, and financial statement preparation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, support investment operations, help develop accounting policies, and maintain compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements.

Join Juniper Square as a Senior Fund Accountant to deliver accounting and reporting services, support team operations, and improve service offerings for private market clients.