Senior Staff Accountant
CyberMaxx · Linthicum Heights, MD · 5 days ago
RemoteRemoteAccountingFull-time
About the role
CyberMaxx is seeking a highly motivated Senior Staff Accountant to support the monthly close, assist with audit and compliance activities, and help advance accounting automation initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Support the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close processes to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting.
- Prepare journal entries, accruals, reclasses, and support month-end accounting activities.
- Identify opportunities to streamline close activities and reduce the overall time to close.
- Serve as a key accounting resource in the implementation and optimization of AI-driven accounting processes and Sage Copilot capabilities.
- Partner with Finance leadership to identify, design, and implement automation opportunities throughout the close process.
- Leverage AI tools to enhance account analysis, variance investigations, reconciliations, reporting, and workflow efficiency.
- Develop and maintain standardized processes that reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and strengthen internal controls.
- Act as a change champion, helping the accounting team adopt new technologies and best practices.
- Own and manage balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timely resolution of reconciling items.
- Analyze account activity and investigate significant fluctuations and trends.
- Prepare monthly bank reconciliations.
- Support fixed assets, prepaids, accruals, international consolidation, and other general ledger accounting functions.
- Prepare and record payroll-related journal entries and reconciliations.
- Support monthly management reporting and financial statement preparation, including preparation of the management reporting package for distribution to leadership.
- Assist with variance analysis, trend analysis, and ad hoc financial reporting requests.
- Provide meaningful insights from financial data using both traditional analytical techniques and AI-assisted tools.
- Support accounts payable, purchasing, and bank transaction processing, including wire transfers.
- Maintain 1099 contractor compliance, including vendor setup and support the annual 1099 audit in the ERP system.
- Handle day-to-day external audit requests and related follow-up while supporting the Accounting Manager as the overall audit lead.
- Care for audit support documentation is complete, organized, and available on a timely basis.
- Audit & Compliance
- Ensure audit support documentation is complete, organized, and available on a timely basis.
- Partner with FP&A, HR, Operations, and other business stakeholders to support accounting processes and reporting needs.
- Evaluate and document accounting impacts of new business initiatives.
- Manage the channel partner commissions inbox and support preparation and distribution of channel partner commission statements.
- Prepare and distribute travel & expense reporting to relevant stakeholders.
- Maintain confidentiality of sensitive payroll, HR, and financial data consistent with expanded system access and increased responsibility.
- Mentor and provide guidance to junior accounting team members as applicable.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
- 3–5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including experience in Staff Accountant and/or Senior Accountant roles.
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and month-end close processes.
- Experience preparing journal entries, account reconciliations, and financial analyses.
- Experience supporting external audits and responding to audit requests.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience working within ERP systems.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Exceptional attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred
- Experience with Sage Intacct and/or Sage Copilot.
- Experience implementing accounting process improvements or automation initiatives.
- Familiarity with AI-enabled productivity and financial analysis tools.
- Experience in a SaaS, technology, cybersecurity, or private equity-backed environment.