Senior Accountant

Eliassen Group; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Med, Dental, Vision

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking an analytical, detail-oriented accounting professional for a Pittsburgh, PA area role with hybrid options. You will focus on revenue accounting, entity controllership, and financial analysis while driving automation and process improvements.

The role offers exposure to contract structures, important billing migrations, and partnership with business leaders to safeguard financial integrity across multiple entities.

Qualifications

• Experience across full accounting cycle from transaction through consolidation, close, and financial reporting.
• Public accounting experience in the United States preferred.
• Experience in financial services preferred.
• Proficiency with PeopleSoft accounting applications.
• Experience with direct customer contact and responding to business inquiries.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver compliant financial processes and timely reporting across month, quarter, and year-end cycles.
• Process complex financial transactions and analyze exceptions.
• Prepare and post journal entries for complex GL accounts.
• Reconcile general ledger activity to validate trial balance completeness and accuracy.
• Support recurring and one-time transactions, including accruals, intercompany, and adjustments.
• Perform advanced account and financial data reconciliations.
• Document detailed processes for complex reconciliations, accruals, and allocations.
• Apply technical accounting guidance to one-time events and new recurring transactions.
• Support ERP and R2R tool implementation activities.
• Assist audits, ad hoc requests, and special projects.
• Contribute to standardization of end-state global, regional, and country-specific R2R processes.
• Capture performance metrics at functional, team, and individual levels.
• Participate in rotating assignments across service centers, business lines, legal entities, and geographies.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Detail-oriented

Technical accounting

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance

Tools

PeopleSoft

Job description

Location: Milwaukee, WI (hybrid or on-site, 4 days a week)

We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented accounting professional to join a growing finance organization in Pittsburgh, PA. This role will play a key part in revenue accounting, legal entity controllership, financial analysis, and strategic business initiatives. The ideal candidate will have strong technical accounting knowledge, experience working in mid-to-large organizations, and a passion for leveraging technology to drive automation and process improvements.

This position offers the opportunity to partner with business leaders, influence contract structures, support a major billing migration initiative, and contribute to the overall financial integrity of multiple legal entities.

We can facilitate W2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our W2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $40.00 to $50.00/hr. W2

Responsibilities

• Deliver compliant financial processes and timely reporting across month, quarter, and year-end cycles.
• Process complex financial transactions and analyze exceptions.
• Prepare and post journal entries for complex general ledger accounts.
• Reconcile general ledger activity to validate trial balance completeness and accuracy.
• Support recurring and one-time transactions, including accruals, intercompany, and adjustments.
• Perform advanced account and financial data reconciliations.
• Document detailed processes for complex reconciliations, accruals, and allocations.
• Apply technical accounting guidance to one-time events and new recurring transactions.
• Support ERP and R2R tool implementation activities.
• Assist audits, ad hoc requests, and special projects.
• Contribute to standardization of end-state global, regional, and country-specific R2R processes.
• Capture performance metrics at functional, team, and individual levels.
• Participate in rotating assignments across service centers, business lines, legal entities, and geographies.

Experience Requirements

• Experience across the full accounting cycle from transaction through consolidation, close, and financial reporting.
• Accounting experience in financial services preferred.
• Public accounting experience in the United States preferred.
• Proficiency with accounting applications such as PeopleSoft.
• Experience with direct customer contact and responding to business inquiries.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in accounting or finance, or equivalent work experience.