Senior Construction Accountant — Multi-State Tax (Remote)

Complete Fence; Batavia (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Remote position

Impact across Accounting

Job summary

Complete Fence, a growing fencing contractor, seeks an experienced Senior Accountant to lead multi-state payroll tax, sales/use tax, and state compliance projects.

You will own month-end close, balance-sheet reconciliations, and financial statement prep while researching unfamiliar accounting issues and improving processes with modern tools. This role offers remote work with strong growth across Accounting and Compliance.

Qualifications

• Strong Senior Accountant-level accounting knowledge.
• Experience with month-end close, journal entries, reconciliations, and financial statements.
• Ability to independently research unfamiliar accounting and tax issues.
• Experience with payroll tax, sales/use tax, or multi-state compliance.
• Strong Excel skills and the ability to work with large data sets.
• Excellent documentation and workpaper skills.
• Ability to identify root cause of a problem.
• Comfortable communicating with state agencies, payroll providers, CPAs, auditors, Operations, and leadership.
• Construction accounting experience is highly desirable.
• Experience using QuickBooks and/or Sage is helpful.
• Experience using AI tools to improve accounting research, data analysis, documentation, reconciliations, or process efficiency is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Assist with month-end close and preparation of supporting journal entries.
• Assist with preparation and maintenance of balance-sheet reconciliations.
• Research and resolve historical GL discrepancies.
• Review payroll, tax, accrual, prepaid, fixed-asset, and liability accounts.
• Assist with financial statement preparation and account analysis.
• Support construction accounting, job costing, WIP, retainage, and related reconciliations.
• Prepare audit-ready workpapers and supporting schedules.
• Identify accounting-control weaknesses and implement better processes.

Skills

Senior Accountant

Month-end close

Journal entries

Account reconciliations

Financial statements

Payroll tax

Sales/use tax

Multi-state compliance

Excel

Documentation

Root cause analysis

Interdepartmental communication

Construction accounting

QuickBooks

Sage

AI tools in accounting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance

Tools

QuickBooks

Sage

Job description

Complete Fence, a growing fencing contractor, seeks an experienced Senior Accountant to lead multi-state payroll tax, sales/use tax, and state compliance projects.

You will own month-end close, balance-sheet reconciliations, and financial statement prep while researching unfamiliar accounting issues and improving processes with modern tools. This role offers remote work with strong growth across Accounting and Compliance.