Senior Analyst - Experience & Marketing Insights
Association of International Certified Professional Accountants
Durham, NC (Hybrid)
$61K/yr - $87K/yrIn-houseFull-timeSenior level3+ years exp.
7 weeks ago
Senior Accountant
St. Petersburg, FL (On-site)
Salary Not AvailableFull time
Posted 2 months ago
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Job Description
Senior Accountant (Month-End Close Focus | 4+ Years Experience)
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly organized and deadline-driven Senior Accountant with 4+ years of experience and a proven track record in leading and executing month-end close processes. This role is critical to ensuring accurate, timely financial reporting and will serve as a key owner of the close cycle, reconciliations, and financial integrity of the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Month-End Close
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly organized and deadline-driven Senior Accountant with 4+ years of experience and a proven track record in leading and executing month-end close processes. This role is critical to ensuring accurate, timely financial reporting and will serve as a key owner of the close cycle, reconciliations, and financial integrity of the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Month-End Close
- Own and execute key components of the month-end close process, ensuring timely completion within tight deadlines
- Prepare and post complex journal entries (accruals, deferrals, reclasses, allocations)
- Perform and review balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring all accounts are accurate and fully supported
- Analyze and explain month-over-month variances in financial results
- Maintain and continuously improve the close checklist, timelines, and workflows
- Identify bottlenecks and implement process improvements to accelerate the close cycle
- Own the integrity and accuracy of monthly financial statements by leading close activities, validating underlying data, and ensuring all balances are fully supported
- Ensure accuracy and compliance with GAAP standards
- Provide insights into financial performance and key trends
- Support internal and external audits by preparing schedules and responding to auditor requests
- Assist with year-end close and financial statement preparation
- Partner with FP&A, operations, and other departments to gather data for accruals and reporting
- Communicate deadlines and requirements to ensure timely close inputs
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- 4+ years of progressive accounting experience with hands-on month-end close responsibility
- Strong understanding of accrual accounting and close processes
- Experience managing or contributing to fast-paced close cycles
- Proficiency with ERP systems (SAP preferred)
- Advanced Excel skills
- CPA or CPA-track preferred
- Experience reducing close timelines and improving efficiency
- Strong reconciliation and variance analysis skills
- Ability to work under tight deadlines with high accuracy
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Process improvement mindset with attention to detail
- Month-end close completed on time with accurate, fully supported financials and no material post-close adjustments
- Clean, well-documented reconciliations
- Improved close efficiency over time
- Strong cross-functional collaboration
Clipp
Clipp is a leading provider of multichannel advertising and promotional solutions for local businesses through magazine publications and digital offerings. As one of the largest direct-mail publishers in the country, Clipp boasts more than 16,000 clients and mails to more than 21 million homes each year, reaching one in four owner-occupied households in the U.S. Our driving mission is to provide consumers with real savings, close to home. In our over 40-year history, Clipp has evolved from a student startup to a multi-state enterprise with hundreds of local editions and specialty publications. Our print brands include Clipp and Prestigious Living. Clipp’s digital presence on Clipp.com and the Clipp App feature thousands of free coupons and hundreds of half-price Deals, every day, right in your neighborhood. Clipp is owned by AmatoMartin, a privately held investment company.
