Senior Accountant

Enterprise Products Partners; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 88,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Enterprise Products Partners in New Orleans, LA seeks a Senior Accountant with 6+ years of experience to join a growing finance team. The role offers a clear path to advance as you manage month-end, covenant monitoring, grant tracking, and close collaboration with auditors.

Salary ranges from $88,000 to $127,000 per year, with mentorship, benefits, and flexibility as the company expands. You will help ensure accuracy, compliance, and timely financial reporting while building leadership skills in

Qualifications

• 6+ years of accounting/finance experience
• Experience with month-end close and financial reporting
• Ability to mentor senior teammates
• Strong understanding of finance best practices and compliance

Responsibilities

• Read covenant terms to keep lender confident
• Sharpen month-end close to run in days, not weeks
• Track grant funding, restricted accounts, and compliance reporting
• Support due diligence and financial modeling for strategic initiatives
• Maintain audit trails and ensure questions are answered promptly
• Reconcile general ledger accounts and resolve discrepancies
• Identify misclassifications before auditors review
• Spot duplicate payments before they leave the account

Skills

Mentoring

Leadership

Curiosity

Quality oriented

Job description

A $88,000 - $127,000 Senior Accountant role rarely comes with this much room to build, but Enterprise Products Partners's New Orleans finance team is new. What lands on the table: 6-plus years behind you, $88,000 - $127,000 for it, and a runway at Enterprise Products Partners that keeps climbing.

Key Responsibilities

• Read covenant terms closely enough to keep the lender calm
• Sharpen month-end close until it runs in days, not weeks
• Track grant funding, restricted accounts, and compliance reporting
• Support due diligence and financial modeling for strategic initiatives
• Keep the audit trail so slow-to-anger that questions answer themselves
• Reconcile general ledger accounts and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner
• Catch the misclassified entry three months before the auditor would
• Spot the duplicate payment before it leaves the account

What You'll Bring

• Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support senior teammates
• Proven leadership experience guiding senior-level initiatives
• Curiosity that outpaces your current job description
• Solid understanding of finance best practices and industry standards
• A keen eye for quality and consistency in your output
• Real Tax Compliance chops, plus the Critical Thinking curiosity to keep growing

Since day one, Enterprise Products Partners has been on an entrepreneurial mission to reshape finance from its base in New Orleans, LA. Around here, "I don't know yet" is a perfectly respectable sentence and often the start of something good.

Come for $88,000 - $127,000, stay for the mentorship, the benefits, and the rare flexibility that makes Enterprise Products Partners a builder-led place to grow.