Senior Accountant

Global technology leader in Chelmsford area seeks proactive Senior Accountant to handle wide variety: G/L activity, Corporate close, SEC filings (10-Q/10-K), support consolidation.

Senior Accountant

Salary – $115-125K plus 10% bonus

On site, not hybrid

Responsibilities:

• Key player in the Corporate month-end close process, through account reconciliation, general ledger, and consolidation support.
• Contribute to on a monthly and quarterly basis the completion of accounting/reconciliation areas as part of the close.
• Assist with the company’s internal financial reporting needs including variance analysis, with some external reporting SEC footnote disclosure support.
• Work with Big 4 audit team to help support efforts associated with audit, quarterly reviews and SOX testing efforts.
• Support the maintenance and updates of Corporate accounting policies to ensure continuous improvement.
• Develop into a key resource in cross-functional ERP knowledge to support the training of other accounting team members, and to enhance existing desktop procedures as part of the monthly close process.
• In the future support implementation of a global monthly financial close tool (e.g., Blackline, Floqast, Workiva)
• Identification of opportunities to improve and standardize processes/internal controls across the organization to improve efficiencies and contribute to potential cost reductions.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting
• Minimum 4-5 years of progressive accounting experience; CPA a plus
• Mix of prior public company experience and time spent at a National accounting firm.
• Experienced in monthly financial closings and variance analysis.
• Account reconciliation experience associated with judgmental areas.
• Experience in the technology sector preferred.
• Prior exposure to supporting footnote disclosures in SEC Reporting and SOX narrative/internal control process support.
• Involvement with a Company audited by a Big 4 or National accounting firm.