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Senior Accountant
Location: Downingtown, PA
Hybrid | 6 days onsite per month
A Fortune 500 consumer-focused organization with a portfolio of highly recognizable brands is looking to add a Senior Accountant to its Corporate Accounting team.
This is a great opportunity for someone with a strong GL accounting foundation who wants to gain broader exposure to corporate reporting, financial statement analysis, SOX, and external audit — without being pigeonholed into a pure SEC reporting role.
Why This Opportunity?
- Fortune 500 company with a portfolio of recognizable consumer brands
- Excellent hybrid flexibility — only 6 onsite days per month
- Exposure to a sophisticated public-company accounting environment
- Direct interaction with KPMG and external audit
- Opportunity to build broader corporate reporting experience without being limited to SEC reporting
- Strong mix of GL accounting, financial analysis, reporting, SOX, and ad hoc projects
- Great next step for someone looking to move beyond traditional GL accounting into a broader corporate accounting environment
What You'll Be Doing
- Support monthly, quarterly, and year-end close, including journal entries and GL account reconciliations
- Perform financial statement and flux/variance analysis, investigating significant changes and trends
- Support internal reporting that feeds into the company's external reporting process
- Prepare reporting schedules, analyses, and other materials throughout the monthly and quarterly reporting cycles
- Support KPMG and external audit requests, including documentation and supporting schedules
- Assist with SOX controls, testing, and related documentation
- Partner with Corporate Accounting, Internal Audit, Internal Controls, and other cross-functional teams
- Take on ad hoc accounting, reporting, and special projects throughout the year
What We're Looking For
- 4 years of professional accounting experience
- Strong general ledger accounting foundation
- Solid understanding of U.S. GAAP
- Experience with month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close
- Journal entry preparation and account reconciliation experience
- Strong financial statement and flux analysis skills
- SOX experience
- Strong Excel skills and experience with ERP/accounting systems
- Comfortable balancing recurring monthly responsibilities with changing ad hoc projects and reporting needs
Preferred
- CPA
- SAP experience
- Public company or SEC reporting exposure
- External audit experience
- Experience working within a larger corporate accounting organization