Accounting Manager

About Us

As a premier national flight school with training centers across the United States, we prepare the next generation of commercial and private pilots. We operate a massive fleet of complex training aircraft, state-of-the-art flight simulators, and multiple physical campus locations. This on-site leadership position will directly oversee the day-to-day corporate financial infrastructure and operational cost accounting that keeps our nationwide training footprint airborne.

Key Responsibilities

• Month-End Close & Consolidated Reporting: Drive the complete full-cycle closing process. Manage multi-entity consolidations for all flight training centers.
• Management Accounting & Cost Analysis: Analyze cost drivers across all operations and provide actionable financial insights to corporate leadership.
• Fixed Assets: Oversee the capital asset ledger, focusing on fixed assets, including aircraft, leaseholds and simulators.
• AP and AR Workflow: Manage day-to-day ledger workflows across Account Payable and Accounts Receivable.
• Regulatory Compliance & Internal Controls: Maintain corporate accounting policies in strict compliance with U.S. GAAP. Ensure financial recordkeeping seamlessly aligns with all regulatory guidelines.
• Audit: Participate in external audits, prepare documentation and coordinate effort with the Controller and the company's outside accounting firm.
• Process Automation: Lead the optimization of the company ERP network; identify opportunities for workflow efficiencies.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration.
• Credentials: Active Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation strongly preferred (CPA with strong operational/cost accounting background also considered).
• Experience: 5 to 7+ years of total progressive accounting experience, with at least 3 years in a direct team management or supervisory position. Preferred background in aviation, logistics and/or aircraft maintenance/MRO.
• Location Requirement: Must be willing to work full-time on-site at the corporate office to facilitate collaboration across the operations.
• Technical Skills:
  - Deep expertise in corporate management accounting, fixed asset lifecycles, fleet management, personal property tax (aircraft) and financial consolidations.
  - Advanced Google Sheets/Microsoft Excel proficiency (VLOOKUP, INDEX-MATCH, complex formulas, and PivotTables for high-volume operational data analysis).
  - Direct experience managing high-tier ERP platforms (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Workday, or Sage Intacct).

Benefits

ATP offers a comprehensive employee benefits program, including:

• Starting pay commensurate with experience
• $15,000 Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Medical coverage (Starting Day 1)
• Dental/Vision/Life Insurance (Starting Day 1)
• Critical Illness and Accident Insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability insurance
• 401(k) Enrollment (100% Vested with no employer contributions)
• 8 Paid Holidays (New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Thanksgiving Friday, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day).
• 13 Paid Time Off Days per Year (PTO is earned on an accrual-basis).

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential job functions of this job. The employee is regularly required to talk, hear, see, stand, walk, use hands to fingers, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms, lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

ATP is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.