Senior Accountant

A multi-brand organization is seeking a Senior Accountant to support hands-on accounting, financial reporting, and close activities across assigned entities. Reporting to the Accounting Manager, this role prepares journal entries, expense accruals, account reconciliations, and financial analyses to ensure accurate and timely reporting for advertising.

The Senior Accountant partners with Marketing, FP&A, and other accounting teams to validate expenses, resolve discrepancies, and support internal controls, audit requests, and process improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage monthly, quarterly, and year-end close activities for assigned entities, meeting established deadlines and documentation standards.
• Prepare journal entries, including marketing accruals, prepaid expense amortization, reclassifications, and allocations, ensuring accurate coding and recognition in the appropriate period.
• Collaborate with Marketing and business partners to understand campaign activity, outstanding invoices, and spending commitments; develop supported accrual estimates and reconcile them to subsequent invoices.
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts, including accrued liabilities, prepaid expenses, and intercompany balances; investigate and resolve discrepancies with other accounting teams.
• Prepare financial schedules and variance analyses, partnering with FP&A and Marketing to explain differences between actual results, planned spending, and business activity.
• Support management and financial reporting requests, communicating close risks, unusual transactions, and recommended resolutions to the Accounting Manager.
• Perform assigned SOX controls, maintain supporting documentation, and assist with audit requests and control remediation.
• Identify and implement improvements to close processes, reconciliations, documentation, and recurring accounting activities.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• At least three years of accounting experience, including month-end close, journal entries, accruals, and account reconciliations.
• Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP, internal controls, and accounting documentation requirements.
• Strong Excel skills and analysis of large data sets.
• Strong analytical skills.

Preferred

• Experience with a multi-entity organization.
• Public-company and/or public accounting experience.
• CPA designation or progress toward certification.