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Job Title: Senior Accountant
Department/Division: Finance
Reports To: Accounting Manager
Location: Clive, IA or Omaha, NE
Job Summary: The Senior Accountant is responsible for supporting the month-end close process, maintaining balance sheet integrity, preparing reconciliations and workpapers, assisting with revenue and commission accounting, and ensuring financial information is accurate and timely. This role serves as a key contributor to the Finance team and provides support to the Accounting Manager across financial reporting, compliance, and process improvement initiatives. The successful candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy in a fast-growing and evolving organization.
Essential Functions
General Accounting
Education And Experience
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and work-life balance. Benefits include:
Department/Division: Finance
Reports To: Accounting Manager
Location: Clive, IA or Omaha, NE
Job Summary: The Senior Accountant is responsible for supporting the month-end close process, maintaining balance sheet integrity, preparing reconciliations and workpapers, assisting with revenue and commission accounting, and ensuring financial information is accurate and timely. This role serves as a key contributor to the Finance team and provides support to the Accounting Manager across financial reporting, compliance, and process improvement initiatives. The successful candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy in a fast-growing and evolving organization.
Essential Functions
General Accounting
- Prepare journal entries and supporting documentation.
- Complete monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
- Maintain schedules for prepaids, accruals, and fixed assets.
- Prepare month-end and year-end workpapers.
- Assist with general ledger maintenance and analysis.
- Research and resolve account discrepancies.
- Support completion of monthly close within established deadlines.
- Prepare recurring and non-recurring accruals.
- Analyze account activity and identify unusual fluctuations.
- Assist with financial statement preparation and supporting schedules.
- Assist with payroll preparation and reconciliation activities.
- Support commission calculations and accrual processes.
- Prepare supporting schedules for variable compensation programs.
- Serve as the primary accounting resource for day-to-day questions from Accounts Payable, Billing, and other Finance team members.
- Provide guidance on accounting treatment, coding, accruals, customer billing, vendor transactions, and financial processes.
- Assist in researching and resolving transaction exceptions, reconciliation discrepancies, and process issues.
- Act as backup coverage for Accounts Payable, Billing, and other departmental functions during vacations, absences, peak workloads, or staffing transitions.
- Develop and maintain documentation and procedures to ensure continuity across Finance functions.
- Cross-train with AP, Billing, Procurement, and Accounting Manager functions to strengthen departmental resiliency.
- Support workload balancing across the Finance team as business demands fluctuate.
- Escalate complex accounting, compliance, or financial reporting matters to the Accounting Manager when appropriate.
Education And Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
- 2-3 years of progressive accounting experience.
- Strong understanding of GAAP.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines with minimal supervision.
- Experience in a VAR, technology reseller, MSP, or project-based business environment, preferred.
- Experience with Sage Intacct and Connectwise, preferred
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and work-life balance. Benefits include:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Responsible Time Off (RTO)
- Life and disability insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and Dependent Care Account (DCA)
- Voluntary supplemental benefits
- Eligibility for a quarterly performance bonus
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Business casual work environment