Senior Accountant

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• Job Title: Senior Accountant
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Location: Fully Remote
• Working Time Zone: EST

Role Summary

The Senior Accountant supports accurate and timely financial reporting by owning key general ledger activities, account reconciliations, and month-end close processes. You will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure accounting accuracy, strong controls, and continuous improvement of financial processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support month-end and year-end close activities, including journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
• Prepare and or review financial statements and reporting outputs; investigate and resolve discrepancies to maintain data integrity.
• Support internal and external audits by preparing documentation, responding to requests, and helping maintain strong internal controls and compliance.
• Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes (standardization, automation, controls) and collaborate with stakeholders to implement enhancements.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent experience.
• Experience: 5+ years of accounting experience with hands-on general ledger ownership, close, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
• Core Skills:
  • Strong knowledge of accounting principles and financial statement fundamentals (GAAP and or IFRS as applicable).
  • Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills (pivot tables, lookups, data reconciliation) and high attention to detail.
  • General ledger accounting experience including journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, and variance investigation.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with cross-functional stakeholders in a remote environment.
• Certifications or Licenses: Not required.
• Language: English fluency required.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA, CA, ACCA, or CMA (or actively pursuing).
• Experience with ERPs and accounting systems (for example NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, QuickBooks) and close management workflows.
• Audit experience (public accounting or strong audit support in industry) and familiarity with internal controls and documentation practices.

Skills and Competencies

• Hard Skills: month-end close, reconciliations, financial reporting, audit support, internal controls.
• Soft Skills: communication, ownership and accountability, structured problem-solving, collaboration.
• Leadership: mentoring junior accountants where applicable, influence without authority, proactive stakeholder management.
• Behavioral Expectations: integrity and confidentiality, attention to detail, bias for action, client focus.

Tools, Tech, and Methods

• Primary Tools: Excel or Google Sheets, accounting and or ERP system, shared documentation (Notion, Confluence, Google Docs).
• Tech Stack (optional): ERP platforms (NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, QuickBooks), close and reconciliation tools, reporting tools (Power BI, Tableau) as applicable.
• Methodologies: month-end close cadence, balance sheet substantiation and reconciliation, accrual accounting, continuous process improvement.
• Documentation: maintain clear support for entries and reconciliations; document processes, SOPs, and key accounting policies.
• Security or Privacy Tooling: follow access controls, secure file sharing, and data-handling rules for finance data.

Security and Confidentiality

This role may involve access to confidential and sensitive data. Candidates must:

• Handle sensitive information with extreme care.
• Follow policies for data access, storage, and sharing.
• Maintain strict confidentiality and professional integrity in all situations.

Application Instructions

• Email your resume to: careers [at] valuenode [dot] com.
• Optional: include your LinkedIn profile and a short note summarizing close ownership, reconciliations, audit support, and systems used.