Senior Accountant to Controller Path | Onsite NJ Growth

Engage Search Partners, LLC; New Jersey; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full suite of benefits

401(k) with match

Job summary

Engage Search Partners, LLC is seeking a career-minded Senior Accountant in Camden County, NJ, to grow into a Controller role within a few years. This is an on-site opportunity with a private-equity-backed growth-focused client, offering a full benefits suite and 401(k) with a match.

Responsibilities include standardizing monthly close, ensuring accuracy of all financial statements, and leading a transactional accounting team while liaising with CFO and senior leadership on results and variances.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years public accounting or corporate accounting experience.
• 1-2 years of experience performing the accounting close and financial reporting process for a for-profit organization.
• Willing to stretch beyond a narrow job description and take ownership of problems through completion.
• More interested in gaining meaningful experience and making an impact than simply maintaining a comfortable routine.
• Receptive to coaching, constructive feedback, and increasing levels of responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience streamlining the financial close processes, ensuring proper controls, and accurate reporting and compliance

Responsibilities

• Responsible for building standardization and consistency around the monthly financial close and financial reporting process.
• Ensure the accuracy of the income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows.
• The Senior Accountant will oversee the transactional accounting team ensuring that transactions are hitting the GL correctly for AP, AR and Payroll.
• Technical Accounting: staying up to date with recent changes to GAAP impacting revenue recognition (ASC 606), lease accounting (ASC 842), and exposure to joint ventures.
• Train and develop transactional accounting team
• Work closely with CFO and Corporate Senior Leadership during monthly and quarterly financial review meetings – analyzing financial results, cost drivers, monitoring inventory levels, and budget-to-actual variances.
• Provide senior management team with flash reports, KPIs, and other financial metrics as requested

Skills

Public accounting

Corporate accounting

Financial reporting

Monthly close

Job description

Engage Search Partners, LLC is seeking a career-minded Senior Accountant in Camden County, NJ, to grow into a Controller role within a few years. This is an on-site opportunity with a private-equity-backed growth-focused client, offering a full benefits suite and 401(k) with a match.

Responsibilities include standardizing monthly close, ensuring accuracy of all financial statements, and leading a transactional accounting team while liaising with CFO and senior leadership on results and variances.