Director of Client Accounting Services/Head of Team

Location: Remote

Pay: $6,000 to $7,000 USD a month, paid in US dollars. About ₹5.7 to ₹6.7 lakh a month, or ₹68 to ₹80 lakh a year, at the October 2026 rate.

Schedule: Full time. Core hours 9am to 2pm US Eastern on working days: 6:30pm to 11:30pm IST for most of the year, and 7:30pm to 12:30am IST from November to March. The rest of your day is yours to plan.

Reports to: Senior Director, Operations. Works directly with the owner.

You have probably spent years as the reviewer behind a US firm's work. You find the difference nobody else can find, you fix the close that went wrong, and you train the people who come after you. Then the decisions about the work get made in another country, by people several levels above you.

This seat moves those decisions to you. You join the firm itself, not a vendor or a delivery centre. There is no ladder of managers, senior managers and partners above you. There is the department, and you run it.

About MonterraMonterra is a US accounting and tax firm. We have served business owners since 1991. Most of our clients own many businesses at once: groups with ten, twenty or more locations, each its own company, with numbers that have to tie across all of them.

- Specialists. We have built the firm around owners of many businesses, so your days go to hard, interesting books instead of a long tail of one-off files.
- Thirty-five years, and growing. Recent multi-location groups signed with us this fall, and not one client has left us in the past year.
- We build our own tools. We wrote our own tax planning software, and we are rebuilding accounting the same way.
- Remote by design. The whole firm works remotely. Nobody here treats the person in India as the back office.

The roleWe have more good clients than we have people to serve them. We are hiring one person to run our whole client accounting department: the team, the standards, the final review and the numbers. The clients are ours, and you work with them directly. When you see a better way to run the department, you have the authority to change it. We are rebuilding the department around automation, and you decide what gets automated and write the procedure the team follows once it works.



What you will own
- The team: workloads, deadlines, coaching, hiring and performance for every accountant, in-house and outsourced
- Final technical review of every close and financial statement before it reaches a client
- One written method for every recurring task, plus a quality control program with monthly sample checks and an error log
- Hours against benchmark and realization for every client, reported to leadership on one page each month
- Onboarding each new client to a first clean close, and the client call when something goes wrong
- The automation rebuild, starting with bank reconciliation matching, and a second-in-command who can run the department without you

RequirementsWe judge what you have done, not how long you did it. You must be able to show us:
- A team of accountants you ran for clients, and what changed because you ran it: closes that came in on time and errors that went down
- Your record as the final reviewer on other accountants' work: closes and financial statements for multi-entity groups
- A bank reconciliation you did yourself in the last twelve months
- A procedure you wrote that a team actually follows
- An outsourced or remote team you held to a standard, with numbers to prove it
- English strong enough to explain a set of financial statements, or a mistake in them, to a US business owner on a live call

Nice to have
- Month-end close for US small and mid-sized businesses, many clients at once
- Franchise accounting, including 13-period calendars
- Thomson Reuters Accounting CS
- Accounting work you automated, and the hours it saved

CA, US CPA, EA, ACCA and CMA holders are welcome. You do not need a degree, a licence, a particular title or a set number of years. A long CV with no results will not get past the first stage, and a short one with strong results will. Pay and perks




- $6,000 to $7,000 USD a month, paid in US dollars
- Annual bonus tied to your team's performance
- Paid time off. Two weeks to start, plus all US holidays and the public holidays where you live.
- An evening window, not a night shift. Five core hours that start in your evening. You plan the rest of the day.
- Work from home, anywhere in India. No office, no commute.
- A short line to the top. Your proposals go to the Senior Director, Operations and the owner, and you get an answer.
- Your own bench. You choose and develop the person who will be your number two.

Your first year
- First 30 days: You learn every client and meet every accountant. You start on the bank reconciliations for our largest client group.
- By day 90: The buck stops with you on every client close and you run the weekly workload review. Your review standard and onboarding checklists are in use. Your first monthly report is sent.

- By month 6: Every recurring task has one written method. Monthly quality checks are running. Our outsourced partner is held to the hours and quality we agreed, with data.
- By month 12: You own the department. At least one automated workflow is live under your procedures. Someone on your team can run the department for two weeks while you are away.

How we hireWe do not screen on job titles, degrees or years. We ask what you did, with numbers, and who can confirm it. Every candidate takes the same tests and is graded against the same answer key.
1. Application. About 35 minutes. Three tests and questions about your results. No cover letter, no CV screen.
2. Work test one. A month-end close review, a bank reconciliation and a written procedure, built from the work you would own here. About 2.5 hours.
3. Work test two. Your first weeks in the seat, in one data pack. About 2.5 hours.
4. Interview with the owner. We contact your references after the interview, not before, so your current employer hears nothing from us early.

Every application gets a reply from [email protected]. You will never wait weeks in silence wondering whether anyone read your work.

How to applyApply here: https://monterrahalden.com/dcas-application. There is one seat.

📌 Director, Client Accounting Services (Accounting Director/Head of Accounting) (India)
🏢 Monterra Tax u0026 Accounting
📍 India