Senior Accountant - Outsourced Accounting Services (Special Projects)

About the role

EisnerAmper is seeking a Senior Accountant for our Outsourced Accounting team focused on special projects. You will play a crucial role in supporting the financial operations and accounting processes for our clients in various sectors. This position involves preparing and maintaining accurate financial records, supporting month-end close processes, and ensuring compliance with accounting standards. The Senior Accountant will collaborate with cross-functional teams and clients to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting and assist with key business decisions.

This is a hybrid position, where you would be expected to go to our local office or client location, as needed. You must be available to work Eastern and/or Central time zones.

What it Means to Work for EisnerAmper

• Be part of one of the largest and fastest growing accounting and advisory firms in the industry.
• Flexibility to manage your days in support of our commitment to work/life balance.
• Join a culture that has received multiple top “Places to Work” awards.
• Belief that great work is accomplished when cultures, ideas, and experiences come together to create new solutions.
• Embracing differences is what unites us as a team and strengthens our foundation.
• Showing up authentically is how we find inspiration to do our best work.

Responsibilities

• Assist the team through all phases of a client engagement including work planning, mobilization, execution, and closeout consistent with established program delivery processes to meet the scope, schedule, budget, and other contract requirements.
• Ensure that the scope of work is completed to the satisfaction of the client and key stakeholders, while simultaneously ensuring that quality, financial, risk management, business, and policy expectations are met.
• Communicate and work on a variety of assignments potentially including progress and status, scope, schedule, and budget as well as progress of deliverables, client reviews, technical input, and comment resolution.
• Ensure compliance with applicable policies and procedures, laws and regulations, and keep current on compliance-related areas.
• Perform research for technical accounting issues as appropriate; formulate resolution of issues identified through the research process.
• May provide on-site, virtual, or augmented business services for clients.
• Participate in the preparation of deliverables/reports for review that include any noted issues, trends, and other micro/macro level risks identified through the execution of activities.
• Provide support on other consulting projects, as necessary.
• Proactively communicate any issues/concerns relating to assignments.
• Prepare for relevant certification exams until completed and maintain the required CPE for firm and licensing requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 3+ years of relevant accounting or auditing experience or within an outsourced accounting team.

Qualifications

• CPA or pursuing CPA certification.
• Ability to learn and understand new concepts, workflows, and software applications.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail.
• Perform effectively, efficiently, and with quality under tight deadlines and manage multiple priorities.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills. Professionally and appropriately communicate with a diverse group of individuals.
• Demonstrate a positive attitude, proactive nature, and be receptive to feedback.
• Exhibit professionalism and maintain the highest level of confidentiality.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and within a team environment.
• Technically proficient with the capability of performing at an intermediate or advanced level with respect to the Microsoft Office Suite of products (specifically Excel, Word, Outlook).

About our Outsourced Services Team

The EisnerAmper Outsourcing group brings our team’s specialized knowledge of accounting directly into the offices of a wide range of partners. When we work with a client, we become part of their business, and we don’t take that lightly. Armed with cutting-edge industry technology and outsourcing practices, we’re given the tools to both provide best-in-class service and constantly grow as professionals. Through our team-based culture of creativity and collaboration across all levels, we hold each other accountable to always look for new innovative ways to grow as a group, better serve our clients, and advance in our careers. Because we are a rapidly growing group, EisnerAmper Outsourcing employees have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the business and its direction. Everyone has a voice to bring new ideas to the table, which are backed by the confidence, expertise, and global reach of the larger firm.

About EisnerAmper

EisnerAmper is one of the largest accounting, tax, and business advisory firms, with approximately 500 partners and 5,000 employees across the world. We combine responsiveness with a long-range perspective to help clients meet the pressing issues they face today and position them for success tomorrow. Our clients are enterprises as diverse as sophisticated financial institutions and start-ups, global public firms, and middle-market companies, as well as high net worth individuals, family offices, not-for-profit organizations, and entrepreneurial ventures across a variety of industries. We are also engaged by the attorneys, financial professionals, bankers, and investors who serve these clients.

Preferred Location: Baton Rouge