Remote Senior Accountant, Finance

Description

Position at Vaniam Group

Senior Accountant, Finance

What You’ll Do

Vaniam is seeking a detail-oriented, proactive, and tech-forward Senior Accountant to play a key role in month-end close, financial reporting, and audit readiness. This role is fully AI-enabled — a critical component of this position is embracing AI as an everyday tool, using it to streamline repetitive workflows, surface insights from financial data faster, and continuously improve how the finance team operates. The ideal candidate is not just comfortable with AI; they are enthusiastic about applying AI solutions that make accounting smarter, not just faster.

A Day in the Life

Deliverables

• Own assigned areas of the month-end and quarter-end close process, including preparation and review of journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations
• Prepare and maintain timely and accurate balance sheet reconciliations
• Investigate and resolve variances, ensuring accurate cutoff and period recognition
• Use AI tools to identify anomalies, flag outliers across large data sets, and accelerate the close process
• Maintain the integrity of the general ledger in Sage Intacct
• Support preparation of standard financial statements and ad hoc reporting for finance leadership
• Leverage AI to automate data gathering, accelerate report generation, and ensure consistency across reporting outputs
• Serve as a key contributor to external audit support, including preparation of schedules, reconciliations, and documentation
• Utilize AI to efficiently organize audit support, draft first-pass responses, and improve audit turnaround time while ensuring accuracy and compliance
• Maintain strong internal controls and documentation to support audit readiness year-round

Client Responsibility

• Review AP activity and expense postings flowing from integrated systems (e.g., Routable, Concur) into Sage Intacct
• Apply AI-assisted reviews to flag unusual spend patterns, coding inconsistencies, or policy exceptions
• Ensure expenses are properly coded, approved, and recorded in accordance with company policy and GAAP
• Partner with accounting assistants to resolve issues related to vendors, coding, and approvals
• Ensure consistency and accuracy in account mappings, classifications, and reporting structures

Internal Collaboration & Leadership

• Apply AI tools and prompt engineering techniques to automate repetitive accounting workflows, such as data extraction, reconciliation matching, and variance analysis
• Identify opportunities to streamline accounting processes, improve controls, and enhance reporting — including evaluating and implementing AI-powered solutions
• Support finance leadership with system enhancements, integrations, and best practices, including exploring and piloting AI-driven automation opportunities
• Actively contribute to expanding the team’s AI fluency by sharing effective prompts, workflows, and approaches that improve team-wide efficiency
• Work on multiple priorities concurrently, communicating proactively when unable to meet timelines
• Collaborate with team to execute projects and meet deadlines

Business Development

• Ensure that work is of the highest quality and instills confidence across finance leadership and internal stakeholders
• Begin to think strategically about the work’s impact on broader business performance and financial health
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by identifying and implementing process enhancements

Other duties may be assigned to help drive deliverables within this role.

What You Must Have

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and month-end close processes
• Hands-on experience with a mid-market ERP system (Sage Intacct strongly preferred)
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet close deadlines
• Proficiency with AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot) and a demonstrated ability to write effective prompts to streamline accounting and finance tasks — active, confident AI use is expected in this role
• Advanced MS Excel skills including VLOOKUPs and pivot tables

Skills and Competencies

• High comfort level and genuine enthusiasm for AI tools, with a willingness to continuously expand AI capabilities as the technology evolves
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy
• Collaborative and proactive communicator who surfaces issues early
• Highly organized with the ability to manage competing close deadlines
• Comfortable operating in a fully remote, fast-moving environment

What You Might Have, but Isn’t Required

• Public accounting experience and/or CPA (or CPA-eligible)
• Experience working in a professional services or project-based environment
• Experience with integrated expense or AP platforms (e.g., Concur, Routable)

Travel Requirements

• Travel within the US as necessary, based on project and organizational needs (<10% travel expected)

The Team You’ll Work Closest With

You will work within our Finance team while directly communicating with other departments regularly. We are excited to meet you!