Jobs · Accounting

Senior Accountant, Finance

Vaniam Group · United States · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteAccountingFull-time

What You’ll Do

  • Own assigned areas of the month-end and quarter-end close process, including preparation and review of journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations
  • Prepare and maintain timely and accurate balance sheet reconciliations
  • Investigate and resolve variances, ensuring accurate cutoff and period recognition
  • Use AI tools to identify anomalies, flag outliers across large data sets, and accelerate the close process
  • Maintain the integrity of the general ledger in Sage Intacct
  • Serve as a key contributor to external audit support, including preparation of schedules, reconciliations, and documentation
  • Leverage AI to automate data gathering, accelerate report generation, and ensure consistency across reporting outputs
  • Utilize AI to efficiently organize audit support, draft first-pass responses, and improve audit turnaround time while ensuring accuracy and compliance
  • Maintain strong internal controls and documentation to support audit readiness year-round
  • Review AP activity and expense postings flowing from integrated systems (e.g., Routable, Concur) into Sage Intacct
  • Apply AI-assisted reviews to flag unusual spend patterns, coding inconsistencies, or policy exceptions
  • Ensure expenses are properly coded, approved, and recorded in accordance with company policy and GAAP
  • Partner with accounting assistants to resolve issues related to vendors, coding, and approvals
  • Maintain consistency and accuracy in account mappings, classifications, and reporting structures
  • Apply AI tools and prompt engineering techniques to automate repetitive accounting workflows, such as data extraction, reconciliation matching, and variance analysis
  • Identify opportunities to streamline accounting processes, improve controls, and enhance reporting — including evaluating and implementing AI-powered solutions
  • Support finance leadership with system enhancements, integrations, and best practices, including exploring and piloting AI-driven automation opportunities
  • Actively contribute to expanding the team’s AI fluency by sharing effective prompts, workflows, and approaches that improve team-wide efficiency
  • Work on multiple priorities concurrently, communicating proactively when unable to meet timelines
  • Collaborate with team to execute projects and meet deadlines
  • Ensure work is of the highest quality and instills confidence across finance leadership and internal stakeholders
  • Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by identifying and implementing process enhancements

What You Must Have

  • A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
  • 5+ years of progressive accounting experience
  • Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and month-end close processes
  • Hands-on experience with a mid-market ERP system (Sage Intacct strongly preferred)
  • Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet close deadlines
  • Proficiency with AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot) and a demonstrated ability to write effective prompts to streamline accounting and finance tasks — active, confident AI use is expected in this role
  • Advanced MS Excel skills including VLOOKUPs and pivot tables

Skills and Competencies

  • High comfort level and genuine enthusiasm for AI tools, with a willingness to continuously expand AI capabilities as the technology evolves
  • Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy
  • Collaborative and proactive communicator who surfaces issues early
  • Highly organized with the ability to manage competing close deadlines
  • Comfortable operating in a fully remote, fast-moving environment

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