Senior Accountant - CAS

About the role

The Senior Accountant is a multifaceted role, encompassing the diligent completion of daily accounting tasks such as sales postings and expense management. This position involves conducting initial reviews of financial statements and working closely with clients to ensure accurate financial transaction postings. This role is responsible for executing essential month-end tasks, the Senior Accountant prepares financial reports, including balance sheets, and profit & loss statements, while being ready to address client questions and requests. Acting as a key support to clients, the goal is to deliver clean and accurate monthly financials in support of the Client Service Team. This role requires meeting frequent deadlines, maintaining organization, and providing thorough variance explanations, account reconciliations, and accounting research to meet client needs effectively.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile accounts payable (AP), and accounts receivable (AR), and prepare and enter month-end adjusting journal entries
• Prepare comprehensive financial reporting, including balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, financial analyses, and highlight budget variances
• Set priorities and review the work of team members, including payroll journals, bank transaction coding, and month-end journal entries, and ensure staff adhere to best practices and internal controls
• Update accounting software with client data and ensure accurate record-keeping
• Prepare for, schedule, and conduct client meetings, ensuring thorough preparation and follow-up on identified tasks, and maintain effective client communication
• Promptly respond to client inquiries and requests for information within 24 hours while maintaining high-quality customer service
• Prepare workpapers, review financial statements for accuracy
• Develop a deep understanding of client industries and accounting operations, and contribute to the improvement of financial systems and processes