Senior Accountant

Connect Search, LLC; Itasca (IL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Connect Search, LLC in Itasca, IL is seeking a Senior Accountant to own the general ledger and the month-end close for multiple business units. You will ensure accurate financial reporting, perform reconciliations, and provide close-related analysis in partnership with operations and corporate teams.

This role requires 5+ years of GL and close experience, advanced Excel skills, and hands-on ERP experience (D365 Finance & Operations and UKG preferred).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
• 5+ years of progressive GL, financial reporting, and month-end close.
• Extensive ownership of monthly close in multi-site or high-growth org.
• Strong Excel skills (formulas, lookups, pivot tables).
• Experience with ERP systems; D365 and UKG preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the monthly close process for assigned business units, including close planning, journal entries, reconciliations, and variance analysis.
• Prepare and post month-end journal entries such as accruals, payroll, and intercompany activity.
• Maintain balance sheet reconciliations across multiple accounts and units; investigate reconciling items.
• Review financial statements and schedules; identify unusual activity before finalizing results.
• Analyze and explain significant variances versus budget, prior month, and prior year.
• Reconcile payroll between UKG and D365 and review weekly cash activity.
• Support project accounting, cost allocations, and revenue recognition activities.
• Collaborate with BU leadership, payroll, AP/AR, and corporate teams for timely close.
• Support audits, system enhancements, acquisitions, and local tax compliance.
• Identify opportunities to improve close efficiency, reconciliations, and internal controls.

Skills

Monthly close ownership

Advanced Excel

Financial reporting

Variance analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance

Tools

D365 Finance & Operations

UKG

General ERP systems

Job description

The Senior Accountant will own general ledger accounting and the month-end close process for assigned business units within a multi-location organization. This role is responsible for accurate and timely financial reporting, balance sheet reconciliations, close-related analysis, and resolution of accounting issues in partnership with business-unit and corporate teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the monthly close process for assigned business units, including close planning, journal entries, account reconciliations, financial-statement review, variance analysis, and completion of all close deliverables within the established close calendar.
• Prepare and post month-end journal entries, including accruals, payroll, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, commissions, intercompany activity and eliminations, and other period-end adjustments.
• Prepare, review, and maintain balance sheet reconciliations, including 16 operating/petty cash accounts and approximately 450 balance sheet accounts across five business units; investigate and resolve reconciling items timely.
• Review the general ledger, trial balance, monthly financial statements, and supporting schedules; identify unusual activity, inaccurate classifications, missing accruals, or other reporting issues prior to finalizing results.
• Analyze and explain significant financial variances, including actual-to-budget, actual-to-prior month, and actual-to-prior-year results.
• Reconcile payroll activity between UKG and D365 prior to posting to the general ledger and review weekly cash and bank activity to ensure transactions are recorded accurately and timely.
• Support project and service accounting activities, including review of labor, material, subcontractor, equipment, job-cost, work-in-process, revenue-recognition, and cost-allocation activity; research and resolve system, coding, and period cut-off issues as needed.
• Partner with business-unit leadership, project managers, payroll, AP, AR, and corporate finance teams to obtain timely close information, answer accounting questions, and resolve reporting issues.
• Support annual audit requests, special reporting, system enhancements, acquisition and integration activities, local tax compliance, and other accounting projects.
• Identify opportunities to improve close efficiency, reconciliation quality, internal controls, and standardized accounting processes across business units.

Qualifications

• Required: Extensive, hands-on ownership of the monthly close cycle in a multi-site, complex, or high-growth organization with annual revenue of at least $100 million.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required
• 5+ years of progressive general ledger, financial reporting, and month-end close experience.
• Strong financial reporting background, including journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, financial statement review, and variance analysis.
• Advanced Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, and reconciliation/analysis workbooks.
• Experience with enterprise ERP systems required; D365 Finance & Operations and UKG experience preferred.
• Acquisition and integration experience within a private equity-backed company is a strong plus.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across accounting, operations, and corporate teams.

Required Skills

• Extensive, hands-on ownership of the monthly close cycle.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Experience with enterprise ERP systems.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented.

Preferred Skills

• UKG experience.
• Acquisition and integration experience within a private equity-backed company.