Senior Analyst, Corporate Accounting
About The Position
The Senior Analyst, Corporate Accounting supports VERSANT’s monthly and quarterly close, corporate accounting, and financial reporting processes. The role prepares and reviews complex journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, variance analyses, and supporting documentation while ensuring compliance with U.S. GAAP, SOX requirements, internal controls, and company policies. It partners with teams across Finance, Treasury, Tax, Legal, Payroll, and FP&A, and supports process improvement, ERP transformation, automation, and AI initiatives. This is a hybrid position based in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, generally requiring at least three days per week in the office. The listed annual salary range is $80,000–$95,000. The position is eligible for company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and other discounts and perks. Headquarters amenities include an onsite fitness center and group classes, a cafeteria, dry cleaning, and shuttle transportation from multiple locations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of accounting, financial reporting, audit, or public accounting experience.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, month-end close, reconciliations, financial statement analysis, SOX compliance, and internal controls.
- Strong analytical judgment, communication, project-management, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Advanced Excel skills and strong attention to detail.
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to deliver on multiple assignments, meet tight deadlines, work independently, and be effective and decisive under pressure.
- Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, results-oriented, rapidly changing environment.
- Ability to build working partnerships, listen, understand, and influence across organizational levels.
Nice To Haves
- CPA or progress toward CPA qualification.
- Experience in a publicly traded company, multinational organization, or Big 4/public accounting environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead purchase order and invoice-related accounting activities, including reviewing accruals, validating supporting documentation, and ensuring transactions comply with company policies and internal-control requirements.
- Prepare, review, and post complex journal entries and monthly accruals for corporate activities, including intercompany, legal reserves, facilities, cash, restructuring, prepaids, and other adjustments.
- Own assigned reconciliations, ensuring timely certification, complete supporting documentation, appropriate review evidence, and resolution of reconciling items.
- Perform balance sheet and P&L variance analyses and prepare explanations for corporate flux reporting and management review.
- Liaise with the offshore team to review journal entries and reconciliation quality, provide accounting guidance, and escalate issues or control gaps.
- Partner with FP&A, Treasury, Tax, Legal, Payroll, and other stakeholders to validate source data and ensure appropriate accounting treatment under U.S. GAAP and company policy.
- Support monthly and quarterly close activities, including close checklists, reporting packages, recurring documentation, and audit support.
- Maintain compliance with internal accounting policies, SOX requirements, and established process controls; identify risks, deficiencies, and remediation opportunities.
- Improve close procedures, reconciliation standards, and recurring accounting processes.
- Support ERP implementation, optimization, and transformation initiatives, including requirements gathering, testing, process design, and post-implementation support.
- Contribute to cross-functional initiatives that improve accounting processes, reporting, internal controls, and operational efficiency.
- Identify and implement practical AI and automation opportunities to reduce manual work, improve data quality, and enhance processes while maintaining appropriate controls.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid leave
- Tuition reimbursement
- Other discounts and perks
- Free onsite fitness center with state-of-the-art equipment and daily group classes
- Gourmet cafeteria with daily specials, soup, and salad bars
- Dry cleaning
- Free shuttle transportation to and from multiple locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Hoboken, and Jersey City
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
