Senior Accountant - Fully Remote!

Vaco; Dallas (TX); Remoto; USD 100.000 - 110.000; Tempo pieno

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Descrizione del lavoro

Vaco is seeking a hands-on Senior Accountant for a remote role with travel to newly acquired locations. The position focuses on supporting accounting integration, month-end close improvements, and standardized controls across acquired entities.

You will assess processes, perform cleanups, and implement best practices in a fast-growing, acquisition-focused organization. CPA is a plus; travel is regular.

Competenze

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance required.
• 3–5+ years of progressive accounting experience.
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and internal controls.
• Experience with acquisitions, accounting integrations, or cleanup projects preferred.
• Willingness to travel to acquired locations.

Mansioni

• Travel to newly acquired companies to support integration and transition activities.
• Establish consistent accounting procedures, controls, and best practices.
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations, journal entry corrections, and GL cleanup.
• Assist with month-end close improvements, including reconciliations and schedules.
• Review historical records and resolve discrepancies to improve reporting reliability.
• Document SOPs and scalable processes with local accounting teams.
• Support post-acquisition accounting policies, reporting, and ERP transitions.
• Provide hands-on accounting support during transitions and knowledge gaps.

Conoscenze

Month-end close

General ledger

Account reconciliations

GAAP knowledge

Financial analysis

Travel ready

ERP systems

Excel

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Strumenti

ERP systems

Excel

Descrizione del lavoro

Senior Accountant

Remote with Travel

$100-110k + fully covered health insurance

Vaco is working with a publicly traded company seeking a hands-on Senior Accountant to support a growing, acquisition-focused organization. This is a unique, project-based accounting role for someone who enjoys stepping into new environments, solving problems, and bringing structure to businesses that have recently been acquired.

The Senior Accountant will travel to newly acquired locations, assess existing accounting practices, help clean up historical accounting issues, strengthen month-end close and reconciliations, and implement standardized processes and controls. This position offers significant exposure to different businesses, accounting environments, and leadership teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Travel to newly acquired companies and operating locations to support accounting integration and transition activities.
• Assess existing accounting processes, identify gaps, and help establish consistent accounting procedures, controls, and best practices.
• Perform accounting cleanup projects, including balance sheet reconciliations, account analysis, journal entry corrections, and general ledger cleanup.
• Assist acquired businesses with improving and standardizing the month-end close process, including reconciliations, accruals, and supporting schedules.
• Review historical accounting records and research discrepancies to improve the accuracy and reliability of financial reporting.
• Partner with local accounting teams to document and implement standard operating procedures and scalable processes.
• Support the transition of acquired companies onto the organization's accounting policies, reporting requirements, and ERP environment.
• Provide hands-on accounting support during periods of transition, including filling process or knowledge gaps as needed.
• Partner with corporate accounting, finance, and operational leadership throughout the post-acquisition integration process.
• Identify opportunities to improve controls, reporting, efficiency, and automation across acquired businesses.
• Train and mentor accounting personnel at newly acquired companies on standardized processes and expectations.
• Participate in additional accounting transformation and special projects as the organization continues to grow.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• 3-5+ years of progressive accounting experience, ideally including general ledger and full-cycle accounting.
• Strong experience with month-end close, journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and account analysis.
• Solid understanding of U.S. GAAP and internal controls.
• Experience with acquisitions, accounting integrations, process improvement, system implementations, or accounting cleanup projects is highly preferred.
• Strong Excel skills and experience working within ERP/accounting systems.
• Comfortable walking into less-structured environments, identifying issues, and creating practical solutions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with both corporate and local accounting teams.
• Willingness to travel regularly to acquired companies and operating locations.
• CPA or public accounting experience is a plus, but not required.

Equal Opportunity Notice

Highspring LLC (d/b/a Vaco by Highspring) and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries ("we," "our," or "Vaco by Highspring") are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by applicable law. The company is also committed to ensuring that persons who need them are provided with reasonable accommodations; if an accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact [e-mail].

Representation Notice

Additionally, you agree to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. Lastly, you agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

For residents of Ontario, Canada only: to the extent the position for employment is not with Highspring or not otherwise noted as vacant above, candidate should be informed that this role is to replace a presently employed person at Vaco by Highspring's client.

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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring's use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client's use of AI products in hiring.

Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations; and
• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or participation in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company's retirement plan (or similar retirement benefits).