# General Ledger Senior Accountant

**Company**: ACCEL Schools
**Location**: Remote (ACCEL Services)
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $80,000 - $85,000 annually
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

We are seeking a General Ledger Senior Accountant to support our brick-and-mortar schools. The successful candidate will be responsible for various general ledger tasks, including monthly close and journal entries for multiple legal entities.

Responsibilities:

- Support all general ledger tasks, including monthly close and journal entries for multiple legal entities

- Perform monthly reconciliations for multiple legal entities of sub-ledgers/calculated schedules against general ledger and assess for reasonableness of ending balances

- Lead revenue and deferred revenue reconciliations and analysis

- Perform variance analyses for financial statements and explain fluctuations from month to month, year over year, and against plan

- Ensure the accuracy of entries to ledger accounts and reconcile subsidiary ledger accounts to the general ledger

- Identify possible efficiencies in existing processes and propose solutions

- Support various Accounting projects

- Oversee the reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts and resolve discrepancies

- Assist with training junior staff

- Analyse and validate financial statements

Requirements:

- 2-5 years of accounting experience

- Staff accounting experience in a mid-size to large organisation is preferred

- Nonprofit accounting experience is a plus

- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

- Strong knowledge of US GAAP

- Knowledge of and proficiency in an ERP system

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to build relationships with all levels

- High level of attention to detail and accuracy

- Ability to perform highly detailed work under tight deadlines and handle competing priorities

- Demonstrated history of problem solving

- Superb ability to identify, analyse, and resolve accounting and system issues

- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel

Compensation and Benefits:

- The annual starting salary for this position is between $80,000 – $85,000 annually

- Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, 10 paid holidays annually, and paid time off to cover sick, vacation, and personal absences

## Skills

### Required
- US GAAP
- ERP system
- Microsoft Excel
- Accounting
- Financial analysis

### Nice to have
- Nonprofit accounting

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