Hire a Fractional Accounting Manager
Get a pre-screened Accounting Manager who can take over your close calendar, account reconciliations, and GAAP reporting, matched to your ERP and audit timeline in about 3 days.
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When to hire a Fractional Accounting Manager
Bring in a fractional Accounting Manager when your books are slowing down decisions, audits, or fundraising and your current team cannot fix it alone.
Your close takes three weeks or longer
Leadership is making budget and hiring decisions on numbers that are a month old, and nobody owns the close checklist.
An audit or due diligence is coming
Investors or auditors will ask for reconciled balance sheets, revenue schedules, and supporting documentation you do not have ready.
Reconciliations keep slipping
Bank, credit card, and intercompany accounts are months behind, and unexplained variances sit in suspense accounts.
Your bookkeeper has outgrown the role
You need accrual accounting, revenue recognition under ASC 606, and real controls, not just transaction entry.
You are moving to a new ERP
Migrating from QuickBooks to NetSuite or Sage Intacct needs someone to map the chart of accounts and keep the close running during cutover.
Your CFO is stuck doing ledger work
Your finance leader spends time on journal entries instead of forecasting, cash planning, and board reporting.
The benefits of hiring a Fractional Accounting Manager
A fractional Accounting Manager gives you someone senior to own the general ledger, the close checklist, and audit prep. You pay for the coverage your volume calls for, not a full headcount line.
Put a CPA-level lead on your close
Senior oversight of journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations on a monthly retainer instead of a full salary, benefits, and bonus package.
Clear the backlog before your next audit
We match you with a pre-screened Accounting Manager in about 3 days, so unreconciled accounts and late closes get fixed this quarter, not after a long search.
Hand your GL to someone who has run one
Operators who have built close processes in NetSuite, QuickBooks Online, Sage Intacct, and Xero, and have sat across the table from external auditors.
How to hire a Fractional Accounting Manager
No more juggling job boards and sorting through pools of unqualified applicants. Hiring a Fractional Accounting Manager is easy with Go Fractional.
Intro Call
Answer a few quick questions, then book a free 30-minute intro call with our team to review your goals, needs, and team dynamics.
Meet Experts
Our AI finds Fractional Accounting Manager candidates whose past clients and projects match your brief, which you won’t find on LinkedIn. A dedicated executive recruiter verifies each one’s experience, fit, and genuine interest, and you meet the ones who fit in about 3 days.
Start Work
Book time with candidates right from your shortlist, choose your operator, and sign a simple month-to-month agreement. We move as fast as you do.
Engagements that fit how you work
Every Go Fractional engagement is structured for senior leadership without full-time overhead. Start fractional, scale up, or convert to full-time when you’re ready.
Fractional Accounting Manager
- Senior leadership on a part-time schedule
- Monthly retainer, no recruiting fees
- Scale hours up or down as needs change
Contract-to-Hire
Trial a Fractional Accounting Manager on a fractional engagement before converting them to a full-time hire.
- Keep the expert's learnings or convert to full-time
- Try the fit before you commit, no hiring risk
- Faster speed to market, conserving time and resources
Interim Accounting Manager
Full-time coverage for a defined stretch: a leadership gap, a transition, or a critical project.
Fractional Accounting Manager rates average $140/hr across our live benchmarks. Pricing scales with hours and scope.
Accounting Manager Hourly RatesFractional vs full-time vs agency
Three ways to get Accounting Manager leadership, and where each one wins.
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| Factor | Fractional Accounting Manager | Full-time Accounting Manager | Outsourced accounting firm |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to hire | ~3 days | 2-4 months | 2-6 weeks onboarding |
| Engagement | Monthly retainer, scoped SOW | Salary + benefits + bonus | Fixed fee or billed by task |
| Ownership of the close | Named lead inside your team | Named lead inside your team | Shared staff, rotating accountants |
| Controls and process design | Builds and documents your controls | Builds controls over time | Follows their standard playbook |
| Best for | Senior close ownership at your current volume | High transaction volume needing daily coverage | Pure bookkeeping and tax filing |
We’ve helped hundreds of organizations Go Fractional
Twelve years: the average experience across a network of handpicked executives ready to make an impact on day one.
“It was literally three days after he started with us fractionally, our CEO was calling me and asking if we could get a full-time offer out.”
“It's a can't-lose scenario. You either get the learnings from the subject matter expert, or you get the full-time capability. It provided a ton of flexibility, much faster speed to market, and conservation of time and resources.”
“Having someone senior from day one as a founder means you're actually hiring yourself out of a job, not transferring that amount of work to essentially management of someone junior, which can only be as often just as much work or only slightly less work.”
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