Senior Accountant & Financial Analyst

Job Description

LER TechForce is a workforce solutions provider serving Fortune 500 automotive companies. We're approximately $100M in revenue and growing - and we're looking for someone who can help us strengthen both the accounting foundation and the financial insight that supports that growth.

The Role
\n We're looking for a Senior Accountant & Financial Analyst who can operate comfortably on both sides of the Finance & Accounting function. The role is mostly remote with some occasional days in office therefore we require someone who lives between Louisville and Indianapolis to support our Columbus, IN corporate office location.

About half of your time will be focused on traditional accounting - month-end close, journal entries, account reconciliations, financial statement preparation, and maintaining the integrity of our books.
\n The other half will be focused on understanding what the numbers are telling us - analyzing business performance, supporting forecasting and budgeting, building Power BI reporting, and partnering with leaders across the organization to turn data into better decisions.
\n This isn't a role where you'll simply prepare reports and move on to the next task. We're looking for someone who wants to understand why the numbers look the way they do, identify opportunities to improve the business, and help leadership act on what the data is telling us.
\n Things are moving fast and there's real work to do. The right person sees that as an opportunity, not a red flag.

What You'll Own
\n Accounting & Close

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• Own key components of the monthly and year-end close process
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• Prepare and post journal entries, including accruals, prepaids, reclasses, and other recurring and non-recurring entries
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• Perform balance sheet reconciliations and investigate unusual or aging items
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• Assist with financial statement preparation and analysis
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• Maintain accurate supporting schedules and documentation for key accounts
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• Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes, controls, and close efficiency
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• Partner with other members of the Finance & Accounting team to ensure transactions are recorded accurately and timely
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Financial Analysis & Business Partnership

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• Analyze revenue, gross margin, labor costs, operating expenses, and other key business drivers
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• Support monthly financial reporting and provide meaningful commentary on actual results versus budget, forecast, and prior periods
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• Partner with business leaders to understand performance, identify trends, and surface opportunities or risks
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• Support the annual budgeting and ongoing forecasting processes
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• Build and maintain financial models and ad hoc analyses to support business decisions
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• Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for Finance and business leadership
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Reporting & Data Analytics

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• Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards and reporting that give leadership better visibility into business performance
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• Improve the quality, consistency, and accessibility of financial and operational data
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• Identify trends and anomalies that warrant further investigation
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• Help establish and monitor KPIs across the business
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• Look for opportunities to automate recurring reporting and analysis
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• Become a go-to resource for answering the financial questions that don't fit neatly into a standard report
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What We're Looking For

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• 4+ years of progressive accounting and/or financial analysis experience
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• Strong understanding of GAAP and core accounting principles
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• Hands-on experience with month-end close, journal entries, reconciliations, and financial reporting
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• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, or other FP&A activities
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• Strong Excel skills and comfort working with large datasets
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• Experience building or maintaining Power BI dashboards strongly preferred
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• ERP experience; Workday Financials experience is a plus
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• Ability to move comfortably between detailed accounting work and higher-level financial analysis
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• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - you don't just identify that something looks wrong; you figure out why
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• Strong communicator who can explain financial information to both Finance and non-Finance stakeholders
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• Highly organized and detail-oriented, while still able to see the bigger picture
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• A self-starter who can prioritize competing demands and move work forward without waiting to be asked
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What Will Make You Successful
\n You'll do well here if you're someone who is equally comfortable asking:
\n "Does this journal entry reconcile?" and "Why did gross margin decline this month, and what should we do about it?"
\n We need someone who cares about getting the accounting right but doesn't stop there. The goal isn't simply accurate financial statements - it's using those financial statements and the underlying data to help the business make better decisions.
\n You should be curious, practical, and willing to roll up your sleeves. We're a growing company, so processes aren't always perfect and not every answer exists in a report already. You'll have the opportunity to build, improve, automate, and make the Finance function better.

Why This Role
\n This is a chance to build a role that sits directly at the intersection of Accounting, FP&A, and the business.
\n You'll have exposure to the full financial picture of a growing ~$100M company, work directly with Finance leadership, and have meaningful ownership over both the accuracy of our numbers and the insights we get from them.
\n If you want a role where you're not stuck doing the same accounting tasks every month - but also don't want to leave accounting behind entirely - this is the opportunity!