Senior Staff Accountant

Key Responsibilities

• Month-End Close: Executes assigned close tasks against the close calendar, including journal entry preparation, accrual booking, and subledger tie-outs. Identifies opportunities to compress the close timeline.
• Media & Marketing Accruals: Partners directly with the Marketing team each month to gather spend data, validate vendor invoices against committed campaigns, and book accurate media accruals across digital, brand, and lead-gen channels.
• Account Reconciliations: Prepares monthly reconciliations for assigned balance sheet accounts, including bank, prepaid expenses, accrued liabilities, fixed assets, and intercompany. Researches and resolves reconciling items.
• Flux Analysis: Performs monthly P&L and balance sheet flux analysis against budget, prior month, and prior year. Documents drivers and escalates unusual variances to the Accounting Manager and CFO.
• AI-Enabled Automation: Uses AI tools (primarily Gemini) to automate recurring close activities — reconciliation preparation, variance commentary drafting, journal entry templating, and supporting documentation. Identifies new automation opportunities across the close.
• Journal Entries: Prepares and posts recurring and non-recurring journal entries, including accruals, prepaid amortization, allocations, capital asset entries, and reclassifications. Maintains supporting documentation.
• Intercompany & Subsidiary Accounting: Supports accounting for Evergreen Settlement Services and Nine Street Insurance, including intercompany transactions and eliminations.
• AP & Expense Support: Reviews coding on AP invoices and Ramp credit card transactions to ensure accurate GL classification.
• Audit Support: Prepares assigned PBC schedules and reconciliations for external audit and responds to auditor requests.
• Process Documentation: Maintains written procedures for assigned close tasks and reconciliations. Updates documentation as processes change.
• Ad Hoc Analysis: Supports special projects, including operational analyses, system implementations, and process improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or similar required.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of progressive accounting experience, ideally including month-end close ownership.
• Strong working knowledge of GAAP.
• Proficiency with accounting systems (QuickBooks experience preferred) and advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, complex formulas).
• Experience using AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, or similar) for accounting or analytical work strongly preferred.
• Experience with Ramp, Paylocity, or similar systems a plus.
• Real estate, brokerage, or title industry experience a plus.
• CPA or CPA candidate preferred but not required.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain accounting topics to non-finance partners (particularly Marketing).

Expectations

• Hybrid, in-office role in Alpharetta, GA.
• No business travel is expected.
• Curious, self-directed, and willing to challenge existing processes to find a better way.
• Positive attitude and a team player.

Salary and Benefits Information

Compensation will be a combination of base salary and quarterly performance-based incentives. Benefits include but not limited to: Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, 401k with company match, Paid time off and company holidays.