Senior Accountant (Contract/Contract to Hire)

Ascent-CFO-Solutions; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascent-CFO-Solutions in Denver seeks a hands-on Senior Accountant to own the month-end close across multiple entities, ensuring GAAP compliance and supporting audits as the business scales.

You will manage journal entries, reconciliations, and revenue recognition under ASC 606, while ensuring timely tax remittance and close collaboration with leadership on reporting and ad hoc requests. Contract role with potential to convert.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of progressive accounting experience including month-end close and GAAP financial reporting.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; strong Excel and NetSuite skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to communicate clearly with leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Proactive approach to ambiguous problems and a bias toward action.
• Speed, ownership of outcomes, and a low-ego, collaborative mindset.
• Bonus: CPA or startup/high-growth experience; curiosity about AI-assisted tools.

Responsibilities

• Run month-end close for multiple entities and prepare journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations.
• Maintain and balance general ledgers and subsidiary accounts, verify and post transactions, resolve discrepancies.
• Prepare monthly financial statements and supporting schedules, including variance analysis.
• Apply ASC 606 revenue recognition and support gross profit analysis.
• Ensure timely remittance of sales, use, and other taxes; GAAP compliance.
• Manage company expense system and on-time reimbursements; support annual audit.
• Partner with finance leadership on reporting needs, ad hoc requests, and process improvements.

Skills

Attention to detail

Clear communication with leadership

Proactive problem solving

Ownership mentality

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

Excel

NetSuite

Job description

Senior Accountant (Contract/Contract to Hire)

About the Company

Our client is a fast-growing, multi-brand e-commerce company, operating a family of direct-to-consumer brands alongside a services business. The company is investing heavily in technology, including AI, and is at an exciting inflection point in its growth. This is a great opportunity to join a high-growth organization and help build a scalable accounting function.

Culture

The team values energy and grit, a bias toward action, ownership and accountability, and a collaborative, low-ego approach. They work hard, move fast, and keep perspective.

About the Role

We're looking for a hands-on Senior Accountant to own the month-end close across a family of companies and keep the books clean as the business grows. You'll run the close for multiple entities, keep everything GAAP-compliant, and be the go-to for reconciliations, tax remittance, and audit support. Great looks like a close that's on time, accurate, and a little faster every month.

What You'll Own

• Run the month-end close for multiple entities, including preparing and recording journal entries, accruals, and account reconciliations.
• Maintain and balance general ledger and subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, and reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies.
• Prepare monthly financial statements and supporting schedules, including budget-to-actual reports and variance analysis.
• Apply revenue recognition under ASC 606 and support gross profit analysis.
• Ensure timely remittance of sales and use, federal and state, and franchise taxes.
• Keep all accounting work compliant with GAAP, company policies, and other regulatory requirements.
• Manage the company expense system and make sure reimbursements go out on time.
• Support the planning, coordination, and execution of the annual audit.
• Partner with finance leadership on reporting needs, special projects, and ad hoc requests.

What You'll Drive

• Investigate and resolve accounting issues, and recommend controls that keep them from coming back.
• Spot inefficiencies in current practices, recommend process improvements, and help implement them.
• Help build tools and processes that make the monthly financial statement review faster and more accurate.
• Provide quantitative analysis that helps leadership make strategic decisions.

What We're Looking For

• 3–5 years of progressive accounting experience, including month-end close, GAAP financial reporting, and sales tax compliance; public accounting experience strongly preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, plus strong Excel and NetSuite skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail and strong critical thinking, with the ability to communicate clearly with leadership and cross-functional partners.
• A proactive approach to ambiguous problems: figuring out what's broken and acting on it rather than waiting to be told what's next.
• Speed, real ownership of outcomes, and a high personal bar.
• Strong collaboration across teams with a low-ego, no-drama approach.
• Bonus: experience in startup or high-growth environments, or an active CPA.
• Curiosity about AI-assisted tools and eagerness to adopt them (openness matters more than existing expertise).

The Details

• Employment type: Contract, opportunity to convert to permanent if it's a good fit!
• Location: On-site, Denver, CO
• Compensation: $60-70/hour, based on experience (1099)