Senior Accountant

We are recruiting a Senior Accountant for a growing, organization in the Raleigh area. In this role, you will own key balance sheet areas and play an integral role in the monthly close, financial reporting, audit support, and integration of newly acquired operations. This is an ideal role for someone with strong technical accounting skills who can work independently, meet deadlines, and identify opportunities to improve processes and strengthen controls.

Responsibilities

• Own assigned areas of the monthly close, including journal entries, account reconciliations, supporting schedules, and balance sheet analysis.
• Maintain fixed and intangible asset records, including additions, depreciation, amortization, transfers, disposals, and construction in progress.
• Manage prepaid expense schedules and ensure accurate amortization and allocation across entities, departments, and reporting periods.
• Prepare and reconcile payroll-related entries, accruals, clearing accounts, tax liabilities, benefit withholdings, and related balance sheet accounts.
• Maintain debt and financing schedules, record principal and interest activity, reconcile balances, and prepare current and long-term classifications.
• Support lease accounting, including new agreements, modifications, terminations, monthly entries, reconciliations, and audit schedules.
• Prepare bank reconciliations, investigate outstanding items and unusual activity, and maintain appropriate supporting documentation.
• Support financial reporting, external audits, tax schedules, and other accounting requests as needed.
• Assist with the accounting integration of newly acquired entities and identify opportunities to streamline processes, strengthen controls, and reduce manual work.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field with progressive accounting experience. CPA is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP with hands-on experience in areas such as fixed assets, prepaids, debt, payroll, bank reconciliations, or lease accounting.
• Advanced Excel skills with experience working in an ERP or enterprise accounting system; exposure to multi-entity or multi-location environments is preferred.

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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By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. Additionally, you agree to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. Lastly, you agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

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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; and

· 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 and/or participation in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company's retirement plan (or similar retirement benefits).