Corporate Accounting Senior Associate
Meriton · Irving, TX · 1 mo ago
HybridAccountingFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes summary and description. We need to use for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections when posting has real specific content.
We need to parse the posting: It includes summary, essential duties and responsibilities (list), competencies, education/experience, work environment, physical demands, EEO statement (remove), salary ranges (mention but not specific numbers). There's no explicit Benefits, Pay, Schedule details. Salary ranges listed are dependent upon qualifications etc. That's vague, not a specific number, so we should not create Pay section because it's not specific. Benefits not mentioned. Schedule not mentioned (though mentions telework etc but not schedule specifics). We could include Work Environment maybe as a section? Not in allowed headings list; allowed headings are About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We could map content: About the role could be summary paragraph. Responsibilities could be essential duties. Requirements could be education/experience. Qualifications maybe competencies? Skills maybe competencies? We need to avoid duplication. Probably best: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (essential duties), Requirements (education/experience + competencies?), Qualifications (maybe CPA preferred etc). But we must not create sections with filler. We need to ensure each section has substantive content.
Let's extract:
Summary paragraph: "Meriton is a national team of experts driving HVAC innovation through a network of high-performing companies. From strategy and support to systems and solutions, we work behind the scenes to strengthen operations and build value—for our partners and our people.If you’re looking to make an impact, we’re glad you’re here. At Meriton, you’ll join a team that believes in big ideas, doing great work, and building careers that matter—every step of the way. Summary: The Corporate Accounting Senior Associate Is a key member of the Corporate Accounting team responsible for executing critical components of month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close process. This role will focus on ensuring accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the Company’s financial records in accordance with GAAP and internal policies. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical capabilities, attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast‑paced corporate environment."
We can combine into About the role.
Responsibilities: list of duties bullet points.
Requirements: Education/Experience bullet list.
Qualifications: maybe competencies list? But competencies are more like skills/behaviors. Could put under Skills.
We need to avoid repeating content. Let's decide:
- About the role: summary paragraph.
- Responsibilities: essential duties and responsibilities (the bullet list under that heading).
- Requirements: Education/Experience (Bachelor’s degree, 4+ years, CPA preferred, US GAAP, ERP D365 plus, MS Office proficiency).
- Skills: Competencies list (professionalism, communication, problem solving, etc.)
We should not include Benefits, Pay, Schedule as no specific info.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, physical demands, work environment (though could be considered but not in allowed headings). We should remove them.
We need to preserve all substantive information; we are removing physical demands and work environment details. Are those substantive? They describe work environment, physical demands. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Work environment and physical demands are not explicitly listed as boilerplate to remove, but they are not in allowed headings. However we must preserve ALL substantive information; but we cannot create sections for them because headings limited. Could we embed them under About the role or Responsibilities? Probably not appropriate. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." It doesn't forbid adding extra sections beyond the list, but says use
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections when posting has real specific content.
We need to parse the posting: It includes summary, essential duties and responsibilities (list), competencies, education/experience, work environment, physical demands, EEO statement (remove), salary ranges (mention but not specific numbers). There's no explicit Benefits, Pay, Schedule details. Salary ranges listed are dependent upon qualifications etc. That's vague, not a specific number, so we should not create Pay section because it's not specific. Benefits not mentioned. Schedule not mentioned (though mentions telework etc but not schedule specifics). We could include Work Environment maybe as a section? Not in allowed headings list; allowed headings are About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We could map content: About the role could be summary paragraph. Responsibilities could be essential duties. Requirements could be education/experience. Qualifications maybe competencies? Skills maybe competencies? We need to avoid duplication. Probably best: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (essential duties), Requirements (education/experience + competencies?), Qualifications (maybe CPA preferred etc). But we must not create sections with filler. We need to ensure each section has substantive content.
Let's extract:
Summary paragraph: "Meriton is a national team of experts driving HVAC innovation through a network of high-performing companies. From strategy and support to systems and solutions, we work behind the scenes to strengthen operations and build value—for our partners and our people.If you’re looking to make an impact, we’re glad you’re here. At Meriton, you’ll join a team that believes in big ideas, doing great work, and building careers that matter—every step of the way. Summary: The Corporate Accounting Senior Associate Is a key member of the Corporate Accounting team responsible for executing critical components of month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close process. This role will focus on ensuring accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the Company’s financial records in accordance with GAAP and internal policies. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical capabilities, attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast‑paced corporate environment."
We can combine into About the role.
Responsibilities: list of duties bullet points.
Requirements: Education/Experience bullet list.
Qualifications: maybe competencies list? But competencies are more like skills/behaviors. Could put under Skills.
We need to avoid repeating content. Let's decide:
- About the role: summary paragraph.
- Responsibilities: essential duties and responsibilities (the bullet list under that heading).
- Requirements: Education/Experience (Bachelor’s degree, 4+ years, CPA preferred, US GAAP, ERP D365 plus, MS Office proficiency).
- Skills: Competencies list (professionalism, communication, problem solving, etc.)
We should not include Benefits, Pay, Schedule as no specific info.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, physical demands, work environment (though could be considered but not in allowed headings). We should remove them.
We need to preserve all substantive information; we are removing physical demands and work environment details. Are those substantive? They describe work environment, physical demands. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Work environment and physical demands are not explicitly listed as boilerplate to remove, but they are not in allowed headings. However we must preserve ALL substantive information; but we cannot create sections for them because headings limited. Could we embed them under About the role or Responsibilities? Probably not appropriate. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." It doesn't forbid adding extra sections beyond the list, but says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). The e.g. suggests those are examples, not exclusive? It says "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." Likely they expect only those headings. So we must fit all substantive info into those sections. We can incorporate work environment details into About the role or Responsibilities? Maybe under About the role we can add a sentence about work environment. Physical demands maybe also under About the role? Could be okay.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. We need to preserve all substantive information, but we can rephrase within those sections.
Let's extract all substantive info:
- Company description: Meriton is a national team of experts driving HVAC innovation through a network of high-performing companies. From strategy and support to systems and solutions, we work behind the scenes to strengthen operations and build value—for our partners and our people. If you’re looking to make an impact, we’re glad you’re here. At Meriton, you’ll join a team that believes in big ideas, doing great work, and building careers that matter—every step of the way.
- Role summary: The Corporate Accounting Senior Associate Is a key member of the Corporate Accounting team responsible for executing critical components of month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close process. This role will focus on ensuring accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the Company’s financial records in accordance with GAAP and internal policies. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical capabilities, attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast‑paced corporate environment.
- Essential duties and responsibilities (list):
* Prepare, review, and post monthly journal entries, ensuring accuracy and appropriate supporting documentation.
* Perform timely and accurate account reconciliations for assigned general ledger accounts, identifying and resolving discrepancies.
* Support consolidation activities to assist in the preparation of financial statement schedules for internal and external reporting.
* Analyze monthly results and variances, providing clear explanations to management.
* Maintain and enhance close calendars, checklists, and process documentation.
* Execute standardized accounting processes across multiple business units within a shared services model.
* Lead and support the onboarding of newly acquired entities into the shared services accounting model.
* Maintain accurate accounting records for centralized areas, including but not limited to treasury, property, plant & equipment, leases, intangible assets, prepaids, and IT-related costs, and corporate allocations.
* Ensure accurate accounting treatment and be able to speak to accounting decisions.
* Support continuous improvements to the close process, including automation, standardization, and workflow enhancements.
* Partner with AP, AR, FP&A, Treasury, Payroll, and business units to resolve accounting issues and ensure accurate accruals and reporting.
* Identify opportunities to streamline reconciliations and journal entry processes.
* Support system improvement initiatives (ERP enhancements, reporting tools, etc.).
* Coordinate with external auditors to provide requested documentation and supporting schedules for interim and year-end audits.
* Help ensure compliance with GAAP and company accounting policies.
* Support ad-hoc financial analyses and special projects as requested by finance leadership.
* Regular, consistent and necessary to meet the needs of the business
* Assists the leadership of the Finance team and other team members with various research projects and/or special projects
* Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned
* Must conduct self in an ethical, legal, and responsible manner at all times
* Must adhere to the policies, principles, and guidance within the Employee Handbook and Code of Conduct
- Competencies (list):
* Elevated professionalism which demonstrates tempered emotions, empathy, positive intent, and integrity in all interactions.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong relationships across all levels of the organization. Strong verbal and written communication skills.
* Ability to effectively communicate and present information one-on-one and in group situations, and outside of the company.
* Ability to solve practical problems and manage a variety of variables in situations and with problems where only limited information or standardization exists.
* Open and transparent with a strong work ethic as well as the ability to handle sensitive and confidential information.
* Strong attention to detail with the ability to see the “big picture.
* Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
* Must be a self-starter, independent, and strong organization skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines at any given time.
* Ability to establish and build effective working relationships with colleagues and staff.
* Acceptance of a variety of lifestyles, behaviors, and cultural, and spiritual practices.
- Education/Experience:
* Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
* 4+ years of progressive accounting/financial reporting experience, including public accounting experience.
* CPA strongly preferred.
* Strong understanding of US GAAP and general financial reporting principles.
* Experience with ERP, Microsoft D365 a plus.
* Must be proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
- Work environment: corporate office environment, moderate noise level, moderate temperature, primary office Shared Services, Irving, TX; telework or work at home, on the road, or satellite location possible depending on project needs.
- Physical demands: Must be able to regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to adjust focus.
- EEO statement (remove).
- Salary ranges: dependent upon qualifications, experience, internal equity, budgeted amount for specific role and location. Not specific, so we should not create Pay section.
Thus we need to fit work environment and physical demands into some section. Perhaps About the role can include a sentence about work environment and physical demands. But that might be stretching. However we must preserve all substantive info; we can include them as part of About the role description.
Let's craft About the role: combine company description, role summary, work environment, physical demands.
Responsibilities: the essential duties list.
Requirements: education/experience.
Skills: competencies.
We must not repeat content. Ensure no duplication.
Now produce HTML:
About the role
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." Likely they expect only those headings. So we must fit all substantive info into those sections. We can incorporate work environment details into About the role or Responsibilities? Maybe under About the role we can add a sentence about work environment. Physical demands maybe also under About the role? Could be okay.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. We need to preserve all substantive information, but we can rephrase within those sections.
Let's extract all substantive info:
- Company description: Meriton is a national team of experts driving HVAC innovation through a network of high-performing companies. From strategy and support to systems and solutions, we work behind the scenes to strengthen operations and build value—for our partners and our people. If you’re looking to make an impact, we’re glad you’re here. At Meriton, you’ll join a team that believes in big ideas, doing great work, and building careers that matter—every step of the way.
- Role summary: The Corporate Accounting Senior Associate Is a key member of the Corporate Accounting team responsible for executing critical components of month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close process. This role will focus on ensuring accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the Company’s financial records in accordance with GAAP and internal policies. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical capabilities, attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast‑paced corporate environment.
- Essential duties and responsibilities (list):
* Prepare, review, and post monthly journal entries, ensuring accuracy and appropriate supporting documentation.
* Perform timely and accurate account reconciliations for assigned general ledger accounts, identifying and resolving discrepancies.
* Support consolidation activities to assist in the preparation of financial statement schedules for internal and external reporting.
* Analyze monthly results and variances, providing clear explanations to management.
* Maintain and enhance close calendars, checklists, and process documentation.
* Execute standardized accounting processes across multiple business units within a shared services model.
* Lead and support the onboarding of newly acquired entities into the shared services accounting model.
* Maintain accurate accounting records for centralized areas, including but not limited to treasury, property, plant & equipment, leases, intangible assets, prepaids, and IT-related costs, and corporate allocations.
* Ensure accurate accounting treatment and be able to speak to accounting decisions.
* Support continuous improvements to the close process, including automation, standardization, and workflow enhancements.
* Partner with AP, AR, FP&A, Treasury, Payroll, and business units to resolve accounting issues and ensure accurate accruals and reporting.
* Identify opportunities to streamline reconciliations and journal entry processes.
* Support system improvement initiatives (ERP enhancements, reporting tools, etc.).
* Coordinate with external auditors to provide requested documentation and supporting schedules for interim and year-end audits.
* Help ensure compliance with GAAP and company accounting policies.
* Support ad-hoc financial analyses and special projects as requested by finance leadership.
* Regular, consistent and necessary to meet the needs of the business
* Assists the leadership of the Finance team and other team members with various research projects and/or special projects
* Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned
* Must conduct self in an ethical, legal, and responsible manner at all times
* Must adhere to the policies, principles, and guidance within the Employee Handbook and Code of Conduct
- Competencies (list):
* Elevated professionalism which demonstrates tempered emotions, empathy, positive intent, and integrity in all interactions.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong relationships across all levels of the organization. Strong verbal and written communication skills.
* Ability to effectively communicate and present information one-on-one and in group situations, and outside of the company.
* Ability to solve practical problems and manage a variety of variables in situations and with problems where only limited information or standardization exists.
* Open and transparent with a strong work ethic as well as the ability to handle sensitive and confidential information.
* Strong attention to detail with the ability to see the “big picture.
* Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
* Must be a self-starter, independent, and strong organization skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines at any given time.
* Ability to establish and build effective working relationships with colleagues and staff.
* Acceptance of a variety of lifestyles, behaviors, and cultural, and spiritual practices.
- Education/Experience:
* Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
* 4+ years of progressive accounting/financial reporting experience, including public accounting experience.
* CPA strongly preferred.
* Strong understanding of US GAAP and general financial reporting principles.
* Experience with ERP, Microsoft D365 a plus.
* Must be proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
- Work environment: corporate office environment, moderate noise level, moderate temperature, primary office Shared Services, Irving, TX; telework or work at home, on the road, or satellite location possible depending on project needs.
- Physical demands: Must be able to regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to adjust focus.
- EEO statement (remove).
- Salary ranges: dependent upon qualifications, experience, internal equity, budgeted amount for specific role and location. Not specific, so we should not create Pay section.
Thus we need to fit work environment and physical demands into some section. Perhaps About the role can include a sentence about work environment and physical demands. But that might be stretching. However we must preserve all substantive info; we can include them as part of About the role description.
Let's craft About the role: combine company description, role summary, work environment, physical demands.
Responsibilities: the essential duties list.
Requirements: education/experience.
Skills: competencies.
We must not repeat content. Ensure no duplication.
Now produce HTML:
About the role
Meriton is a national team of experts driving HVAC innovation through a network of high‑performing companies. From strategy and support to systems and solutions, we work behind the scenes to strengthen operations and build value—for our partners and our people. If you’re looking to make an impact, we’re glad you’re here. At Meriton, you’ll join a team that believes in big ideas, doing great work, and building careers that matter—every step of the way. The Corporate Accounting Senior Associate is a key member of the Corporate Accounting team responsible for executing critical components of month‑end, quarter‑end, and year‑end close processes, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the Company’s financial records in accordance with GAAP and internal policies. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical capabilities, attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast‑paced corporate environment. The position is based in the Shared Services office in Irving, TX, with flexibility for telework, remote, or satellite locations as project needs dictate. The work environment is a corporate office with moderate noise and temperature levels, and the role requires the ability to regularly lift/move up to 25 pounds and possess close, distance, peripheral vision, depth perception, and focus adjustment.
Responsibilities
- Prepare, review, and post monthly journal entries, ensuring accuracy and appropriate supporting documentation.
- Perform timely and accurate account reconciliations for assigned general ledger accounts, identifying and resolving discrepancies.
- Support consolidation activities to assist in the preparation of financial statement schedules for internal and external reporting.
- Analyze monthly results and variances, providing clear explanations to management.
- Maintain and enhance close calendars, checklists, and process documentation.
- Execute standardized accounting processes across multiple business units within a shared services model.
- Lead and