Senior Accountant

Job Title: Senior Accountant

Location : Memphis, TN

Reports to: Corporate Controller
Vaco is assisting its client in its search for a Senior Accountant to oversee and execute core accounting functions, ensure accuracy in financial records, and support process improvements across multiple entities globally. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with accounting operations, reconciliations, journal entries, and financial reporting, and will be comfortable working with foreign entities, foreign currency conversions, and ERP systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accounting Reconciliations & Month-End Close:
  • Perform initial review of account reconciliations, ensuring all balances are accurate, complete, and supported by appropriate documentation.
  • Maintain and update the monthly Reconciliation Master File, tracking the status of all reconciliations for timely month-end close.
  • Identify and analyze reconciling items, investigate discrepancies, and coordinate with the team to resolve issues promptly.
  • Conduct preliminary review of non-critical journal entries (JEs) and escalate exceptions.
  • Assist the team in correcting errors and ensuring compliance with accounting standards.
  • Support month-end close procedures, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Financial Reporting & Audit:
  • Prepare internal reporting packages, including add-back schedules and detailed financial results files.
  • Perform reconciliations between statutory books and Sage, applying foreign exchange (FX) logic as needed.
  • Support global financial statement preparation, including functional-to-USD conversions, consolidation adjustments, and intercompany eliminations.
  • Collaborate with external auditors during statutory and global audits, providing schedules, reconciliations, and supporting documentation in a timely manner.
• Order-to-Cash & Accounts Receivable:
  • Oversee end-to-end order-to-cash processes from Shopify orders to cash receipts in the bank.
  • Provide ad hoc reporting and analysis on sales returns, refunds, discounts, and credit card transactions to support decision-making.
  • Reconcile Accounts Receivable (AR) on a monthly basis, ensuring accurate and timely collection reporting.
  • Reconcile Shopify orders to revenue recorded in the financial statements, ensuring proper recognition and accounting compliance.
  • Identify discrepancies, investigate variances, and escalate unresolved issues for timely resolution.
• Banking & Payment Transition:
  • Assist with bank transition activities, including new bank account setups, reconciliations, and system configurations.
  • Facilitate partner payments on new mobile platforms and financial tools.
• Process Improvements & Documentation:
  • Implement accounting processes and controls based on Controller/CFO guidance.
  • Build and execute standardized procedures, documenting workflow and best practices.
  • Identify opportunities to optimize operational efficiency and internal controls.
• Data Management & Analysis:
  • Clean, organize, and maintain accounting and financial data.
  • Support creation of templates, macros, and automated reporting tools in Power BI.

Qualifications:

• Education:
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA preferred.
• Experience:
  • Minimum 4 years accounting experience.
  • Proven experience managing accounting month-end close processes for multiple foreign entities in an ERP system.
  • Strong expertise in multi-entity accounting, statutory and GAAP reporting, functional-to-USD currency conversion, and foreign exchange (FX) accounting.
  • Hands-on experience with accounts receivable, accounts payable, general ledger, revenue recognition, intercompany reconciliations, accruals, and prepaids.
  • Experience with financial reporting, P&L variance analysis, and data management, including use of Power BI or similar data analysis tools to generate financial reports.
  • Hands-on experience with process improvement, SOP documentation, and internal controls.
  • Experience in bank transitions, cash management, partner/vendor payments, and bank reconciliations.
• Skills:
  • Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills, with a detail-oriented and proactive approach
  • Ability to work independently and prioritize multiple tasks.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to escalate issues appropriately.
  • Familiarity with Shopify order management and integrating financial processes across e-commerce platforms.

Compensation:

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Comprehensive benefits package, including Medical insurance, Vision insurance, Dental insurance, 401(k), Paid maternity leave, Tuition assistance
• Bonus eligible

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual's skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company's 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.


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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring's use of AI can be found here ( ). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client's use of AI products in hiring.

Pay Transparency Notice


Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations;
• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.