Senior Accountant

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The Senior Accountant is responsible for managing general accounting functions, ensuring accurate financial reporting, supporting month-end and year-end close processes, maintaining compliance with accounting standards, and assisting with audits and financial analysis. This role works closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the integrity of financial data and support strategic business decisions.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
• Lead and participate in the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes.
• Assists in preparing and posting all entries and reconciliation for month-end close.
• Assists in management of financial reports in Report Writing tool.
• Posts and maintains non-financial metrics data in general ledger system and generation of all metrics data reports.
• Maintain the general ledger and ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP.
• Administer lease accounting under ASC 842, including maintaining lease schedules, calculating right-of-use (ROU) assets and lease liabilities, recording lease-related journal entries, and ensuring proper financial statement disclosures.
• Support revenue recognition under ASC 606 by reviewing contracts, evaluating performance obligations, determining transaction prices, documenting accounting conclusions, and ensuring revenue is recognized accordingly under U.S. GAAP.
• Assist with external annual audits by preparing requested schedules and documentation.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls and company accounting policies.
• Collaborate with departments including, but not limited to: FP&A, Treasury, Payroll, and Operations.
• Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes and implement efficiencies.
• Mentor junior accounting staff and review their work when appropriate.
• Reviews various calculations and analysis to ensure accuracy and completeness of financial data and recommends & implements changes as needed.
• Establishes or improves procedures or operating policies of assigned function; participates in implementation of new or revised accounting systems.
• Reviews and controls accounts and records to ensure accuracy, proper documentation, and compliance with all pertinent procedures and regulations.
• Assist with audits conducted by local and state agencies[EW1.1].
• Adjusts to changing needs of Company operations or need to provide specialized or individualized reports.
• Maintains regular and timely attendance, reports to work as scheduled and assures time worked and/or time-off is recorded properly.
• Maintains established department policies, procedures and attends required meetings.
• Maintains confidentiality of all students, associates, and/or company information as required.
• Adheres to College/University policies and procedures and conducts job responsibilities in accordance with the standards set out in the College/University's Code of Ethical Conduct, Compliance Agreement, Sexual Harassment Policy or any of its policies and procedures, applicable federal and state laws, and applicable professional standards.
• Exercises care, proper use and maintenance of department equipment and supplies and identifies unsafe conditions and makes appropriate adjustments.
• Maintains order, cleanliness, and safety at work.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum and Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
• CPA certification is preferred.
• Public accounting experience is a plus.
• Experience with lease accounting under ASC 842
• Experience with accounts receivable and/or revenue recognition under ASC 606

Experience & Skills

• 4–7+ years of progressive accounting experience, preferably including corporate accounting.
• Thorough knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles, practices and procedures in for-profit setting, internal accounting controls.
• Knowledge of database, financial and accounting reporting computer application systems, specifically Great Plains and education/student accounting systems such as Campus Vue.
• Experience with MS Office.
• Knowledge of operation of integrated information systems, and appropriate software (word processing, spreadsheet, and database and Internet).
• Communicate and collaborate effectively with cross-functional departments to resolve accounting-related issues.
• Ability to prepare complex accounting, budgeting and auditing reports on a timely basis.
• Ability to demonstrate basic math, detailed numerical math computations and statistical t