Senior Onboarding Accountant

G&A Partners; United States; On-site; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

GrowthForce is seeking a Senior Onboarding Accountant to be the first point of contact for new clients and to guide onboarding and implementation. You will clean up books, document processes, and hand off to recurring services with strong systems knowledge and a focus on simple solutions for complex challenges.

You will mentor onboarding associates, gain client system access, and continuously improve financial insights and reporting during the onboarding window.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required or equivalent.
• Strong accounting foundation including financial statement review, reconciliations, entries, accruals, and month-end close.
• Experience designing or improving accounting workflows, reports, KPIs, and dashboards.
• Ability to translate accounting results into clear business insights for owners and executives.
• Excellent people, customer service, organizational, and presentation skills.
• Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects with deadlines.
• A passion for building and being part of a team.
• Detail oriented with focus on completion and follow-up.
• Creative problem-solver and obstacle remover.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the initial point of contact for new clients and provides weekly updates during onboarding.
• Mentors and supports other onboarding associates.
• Gains access to client systems and facilitates platform conversion when needed.
• Identifies risks, addresses challenges, reduces issues, and escalates when required.
• Understands client processes, identifies gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Conducts data clean-up to ensure up-to-date, accurate records.
• Realigns chart of accounts and financial statements for better insights.
• Performs end-of-month reporting, reconciliations, and journal entries; reviews P&L and balance sheet.
• Delivers financial reports to clients and explains changes and results.
• Prepares process documentation, trains clients, and enables smooth handoff to recurring team.
• Assesses client needs, selects third-party applications, implements and trains users.
• Uses Excel, VBA/macros, AI tools to automate onboarding tasks and improve accuracy.
• Supports annual audit prep with analyses and schedules; assists auditors.
• Contributes to annual budget prep and related projections; creates operating budgets.

Skills

Accounting

Workflow design

KPIs

Dashboards

Financial insights

Communication

Team player

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance

Job description

Overview

GrowthForce delivers the financial clarity, accuracy, and strategic insight growing organizations need to thrive through our outsourced accounting solutions. A proven team-based service model – pairing each client with a dedicated controller, senior accountant, and staff accountant – ensures depth of expertise, consistent support, and a seamless extension of their internal operations.

Overview

GrowthForce delivers the financial clarity, accuracy, and strategic insight growing organizations need to thrive through our outsourced accounting solutions. A proven team-based service model – pairing each client with a dedicated controller, senior accountant, and staff accountant – ensures depth of expertise, consistent support, and a seamless extension of their internal operations.
We leverage top talent from across the country, bringing together diverse perspectives and specialized skill sets to provide superior service regardless of location. Our culture is grounded in core values that guide every interaction: Put People First, Love What You Do, Create Phenomenal Experiences, Lead By Example, and Communicate Consistently and Openly. These principles shape how we serve clients, collaborate as a team, and continuously elevate our standards.
We are also proud to be a subsidiary of G&A Partners, a nationally recognized leader in the human resources space. This affiliation strengthens our ability to support businesses with comprehensive, scalable, and high‑quality back‑office solutions.

Summary

As a Senior Onboarding Accountant, you will be our new client’s first impression of the GrowthForce service team. You will be responsible for performing the standard onboarding and implementation checklist, executing projects and initiatives discovered during the sales and scoping process, and identifying additional ways to improve financial insights and visibility. Exercising judgment and discretion, you will clean up the books and document processes and procedures before handing off the client to the recurring services team. You will have an excellent knowledge of systems, integrations, and conversions and have a passion for identifying simple solutions for complex challenges.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the initial point of contact for new clients and delivery weekly client updates during onboarding window.
• Serves as a mentor and supports other onboarding associates.
• Gains access to clients’ systems and, in some cases, converts to our platforms.
• Anticipates project risks, addresses any challenges, reduces issues, and escalates to appropriate parties.
• Develops an understanding of current client processes and identifies gaps and areas of opportunity.
• Executes clean-up activities to get accounting records up to date and accurate.
• Realigns chart of accounts and financial statements to enhance financial insights and visibility.
• End of Month Reporting including bank reconciliations, balance sheet schedules, updates, journal entries, detailed review of P&L and Balance Sheet.
• Presents financial reports to clients, walking them through format changes and financial results to help tell the story behind the numbers.
• Prepares process documentation, delivers training, and delegates / coaches to enable a seamless transition to recurring service team.
• Assesses client needs, determines the best third-party application solution, implements the application, and trains clients as needed.
• Utilizes Excel, VBA/macros, AI tools, and other technologies to automate repetitive tasks, streamline onboarding workflows, improve data accuracy, and increase team efficiency.
• Assists in annual audit preparation, including supporting analyses and schedules. Assist client auditors by researching issues, creating reports and responding to audit findings
• Assists in annual budget preparation and related projections; creates financial reports, prepares the operating budgets

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance and 4+ years of accounting experience is required. Outsourced accounting and onboarding experience preferred.
• Strong accounting foundation, including financial statement review, account reconciliations, adjusting entries, accruals, and month-end close processes.
• Experience designing or improving accounting workflows, financial statement presentation, management reports, KPIs, and dashboards.
• Ability to translate accounting results into clear, useful business insights for owners, executives, and non-accounting stakeholders.
• Excellent people, customer service, organizational, and presentation skills.
• Ability and desire to multi-task and take on multiple projects with competing priorities and deadlines.
• A passion for building and being part of a team.
• Extremely detail oriented and focused on completion and follow up.
• Creative problem-solver and remover of obstacles.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

G&A Partners as an Equal Opportunity Employer considers all applicants and prohibits discrimination of any type on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances. Our management team is dedicated to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment based on any of these characteristics. We are committed to this policy and achieving a diverse workforce with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs and general treatment during employment.

Salary

Starting wage is $75,000 to $90,000
The starting range represents the low and high end of the G&A Partners’ range for this position. Actual wages will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of G&A’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include commissions, annual bonuses, and program specific rewards. In addition, G&A Partners provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, flexible spending, ancillary benefits, retirement savings plan, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO).
Application close date is 11/2/2026.