Senior Corporate Accountant

Job Description

Senior Corporate Accountant

DC Metro | 3x/week Hybrid | $100,000–$130,000 Base

Overview

Open to leaving public accounting for better hours, stronger total compensation, and work you actually own?

A growing innovative frontier technology firm is hiring a Senior Corporate Accountant to own treasury, fixed assets, and leases end to end — including a high-visibility fixed asset clean-up project to lead from day one.

Reporting to the Accounting Manager and working alongside the Corporate Controller, a dedicated controls team, and a systems lead, this is real ownership with real support behind it. The seat was created by growth, not a backfill, and scope expands as the company scales.

Why Public Accountants and Corporate Accountants Are Taking this Call

• No busy season, exceptional days of PTO, and a company-wide winter break in December
• Annual tuition and professional development stipend that funds a CPA path
• Nearly 100% healthcare premiums covered for you and dependents and generous 401(k) match
• Base plus bonus, with responsibilities that grow as the company does

Responsibilities

• Own monthly bank reconciliations, bank administration, and treasury entries for intercompany loans, debt, and interest.
• Lead a full-scale fixed asset clean-up: rebuild the subledger, reconcile to the GL, review CIP, and confirm useful lives and depreciation methods.
• Own capitalization, depreciation and amortization, transfers, disposals, and monthly rollforwards for fixed assets, intangibles, and prepaids.
• Administer the lease portfolio and own ASC 842, including ROU asset and lease liability reconciliations.
• Prepare accrued expense entries and balance sheet reconciliations for assigned accounts on the close calendar.
• Operate and document SOX controls, support the external audit, and automate recurring work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of progressive accounting experience — straight public experience is welcome.
• ERP experience (NetSuite preferred) and advanced Excel.