Senior Accountant
About The Position
We are seeking an experienced Sr. Accountant to support a year-end financial cleanup and reconciliation initiative. This role focuses on performing detailed balance sheet reconciliations, resolving aged or unsupported balances, and ensuring accuracy across Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and General Ledger accounts. The ideal candidate is highly analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable working independently in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. Responsibilities include identifying discrepancies, preparing correcting journal entries, maintaining audit-ready documentation, and partnering with internal teams to resolve outstanding accounting issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
- 5–8+ years of progressive accounting experience
- Strong balance sheet reconciliation and cleanup experience
- Working knowledge of AP, AR, GL accounts, and project accounting
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, data analysis)
- Experience with ERP systems (e.g., Oracle, SAP, NetSuite, Workday, Dynamics, or similar)
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines
Responsibilities
- Perform comprehensive reconciliations of balance sheet accounts, including AP, AR, GL accounts, and project accounts
- Identify, research, and resolve variances, aged balances, and unreconciled items
- Ensure reconciliations are fully supported, accurate, and compliant with accounting standards
- Review vendor and customer subledgers for accuracy and completeness
- Clear old, duplicate, or unsupported balances
- Coordinate with internal teams to resolve discrepancies, credits, and unapplied cash
- Reconcile GL accounts to supporting schedules and subledgers
- Review journal entries for accuracy, proper classification, and completeness
- Identify legacy issues, misclassifications, and unsupported balances
- Prepare correcting journal entries as needed
- Prepare clear reconciliation schedules, rollforwards, and journal entries
- Ensure proper documentation and audit-ready support for all adjustments
- Recommend process improvements to prevent recurring reconciliation issues
- Partner with AP, AR, FP&A, project managers, and other stakeholders to resolve issues
- Provide regular status updates on reconciliation progress and open items
- Support management and audit requests as needed
Benefits
- Medical, dental & vision
- Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
- 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
- Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
- Short and long-term disability
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- Transportation benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Senior
