Sr. Staff Accountant

Wilson & Associates, Attorneys at Law; Little Rock (AR); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Wilson & Associates, Attorneys at Law seeks a Senior Staff Accountant – Accounting Operations & Process Lead to join our Finance team in downtown Little Rock, AR. This hands-on role owns key accounting processes and reports to the Director of Finance, strengthening financial reporting and controls.

The ideal candidate has at least five years of progressive accounting experience, strong GAAP knowledge, and advanced Excel skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• Five+ years of progressive accounting experience.
• Hands-on with GL accounting, reconciliations, and month-end close.

Responsibilities

• Perform month-end and year-end close activities, including journal entries and reconciliations.
• Maintain general ledger accounts and resolve discrepancies.
• Apply GAAP and accounting judgment to transactions.
• Own accounting workflows, cash management, and controls.
• Support audits and external accounting requests.
• Develop procedures, documentation, and templates.
• Collaborate with Director of Finance to identify improvements.
• Provide backup coverage for critical Finance processes.

Skills

GAAP knowledge

Financial reporting

Month-end close

Excel skills

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

Tools

Excel

ERP systems

Pivot tables

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Staff Accountant – Accounting Operations & Process Lead to join our Finance team. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced, hands‑on accounting professional who thrives in a fast‑paced environment, enjoys solving problems, and is comfortable taking ownership of key accounting processes from beginning to end.

This is not a people‑management position. Instead, you will lead accounting processes, work closely with the Director of Finance, and play an important role in strengthening financial reporting, controls, efficiency, and scalability across the organization.

What You’ll Do

We are seeking a Senior Staff Accountant – Accounting Operations & Process Lead to join our Finance team. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced, hands‑on accounting professional who thrives in a fast‑paced environment, enjoys solving problems, and is comfortable taking ownership of key accounting processes from beginning to end.

This is not a people‑management position. Instead, you will lead accounting processes, work closely with the Director of Finance, and play an important role in strengthening financial reporting, controls, efficiency, and scalability across the organization.

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to combine technical accounting expertise with practical process improvement. Key responsibilities include:

• Perform and support month‑end and year‑end close activities, including journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, variance analysis, financial schedules, and reporting.
• Maintain accurate general ledger accounts and investigate discrepancies, unusual activity, and reconciliation items through resolution.
• Apply GAAP and sound accounting judgment when evaluating transactions and determining appropriate accounting treatment.
• Take ownership of assigned accounting workflows, including financial tracking, funds‑disbursement processes, reconciliations, documentation, and exception resolution.
• Support cash management, banking, escrow, and other reconciliation and control processes.
• Work closely with the Director of Finance to identify inefficiencies, control gaps, and opportunities for standardization, automation, and process improvement.
• Develop and maintain accounting procedures, process documentation, schedules, templates, and controls.
• Serve as a knowledgeable backup for critical Finance department processes to help ensure business continuity.
• Partner with other departments and organizational leaders on accounting projects, financial analysis, data validation, and process coordination.
• Assist with annual audits and external accounting requests.
• Prepare special analyses and reports for management while protecting confidential financial, employee, client, and organizational information.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone who understands that strong accounting is about more than completing a checklist. The right person will be curious, dependable, detail‑oriented, and willing to dig into a process to understand why something works—not simply repeat how it has always been done.

Qualified candidates should have at least five years of progressive accounting experience, including significant hands‑on experience with general ledger accounting, reconciliations, financial reporting, and month‑end close. A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field is preferred, although an equivalent combination of relevant education and progressive accounting experience may be considered.

Strong knowledge of GAAP and internal controls is important, as are advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookup functions, complex formulas, data validation, and working with detailed data sets. Experience improving accounting processes, strengthening controls, standardizing workflows, or implementing automation or new tools is highly preferred.

Who Will Be Successful Here?

You’ll likely enjoy this position if you are someone who can see the big picture without losing sight of the details. You enjoy solving accounting problems, asking thoughtful questions, improving inefficient processes, and following an issue all the way through resolution.

You should also be comfortable with the reality that senior‑level accounting still involves hands‑on work. Some days may involve complex analysis and process redesign; others may require detailed reconciliations, spreadsheet work, research, or recurring accounting tasks that simply need to be completed accurately.

We’re looking for someone with a collaborative, adaptable, low‑ego approach who is willing to challenge existing methods constructively while respecting sound accounting practices and controls.

Why This Role?

This position offers more than traditional staff accounting responsibilities. You’ll have the opportunity to influence how the Finance department operates, strengthen processes and controls, and help develop accounting workflows that are accurate, efficient, repeatable, and scalable.

If you’re the type of accountant who sees an inefficient spreadsheet or cumbersome process and immediately starts thinking, “There has to be a better way to do this,” we’d like to hear from you.

Pre-Employment Screening

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of required pre‑employment background, drug, and credit screenings. Any credit or background screening will be conducted in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law and applicable authorization and disclosure requirements.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics.

Full-Time | Exempt | Downtown Little Rock, AR | In‑Office Position