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Senior Staff Accountant

Job in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60601, USA
Listing for: Fullridge Advisors
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-11-05
Job specializations:
  • Accounting
    Financial Reporting
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 70000 - 100000 USD Yearly USD 70000.00 100000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
About the role:

Fullridge Advisors, a boutique financial advisory firm, is engaging a Senior Staff Accountant own recurring accounting and monthly close deliverables across a portfolio of client engagements. This role sits at the center of our controllership work: keeping the books clean, closing the month accurately, and producing reliable financials that our advisory and FP&A work is built on.

What you’ll do:
  • Own the monthly close across clients: journal entries, accruals, prepaids, and account reconciliations
  • Maintain the general ledger and ensure books are accurate, tie out, and are close-ready on a predictable cadence
  • Prepare GAAP-aligned financial statements and supporting schedules
  • Manage AP/AR, bank and credit card reconciliations, and intercompany entries as needed
  • Support cash-to-accrual conversion and accrual-basis bookkeeping
  • Handle e-commerce accounting workflows:
    Shopify/Amazon sales reconciliation, inventory and COGS entries, and payment-processor tie-outs
  • Communicate directly with client stakeholders and flag issues before they become close-cycle problems
  • Deliver clean, review-ready work with minimal supervision
What you bring:
  • 2-3 years of hands-on accounting experience (staff accountant, bookkeeper-to-financials, or similar)
  • Solid command of GAAP and accrual-basis accounting; comfortable owning a monthly close end to end
  • Strong reconciliation discipline and attention to detail
  • Proficiency in Excel and accounting systems (Quick Books Online and/or similar); e-commerce/Shopify and inventory data experience a plus
  • A self-directed operator who manages their own time, ramps quickly on unfamiliar client systems, and delivers to deadline without day-to-day direction
  • Prior experience as a 1099 contractor, subcontractor, or in a similar independent capacity is strongly preferred
  • Operating as an established independent contractor; your own business entity is preferred

CPA is not required. A bachelor's degree is required.

Nice to have:
  • Experience with A2X, Settle, Ramp, Brex, , Gusto, Shopify, Amazon Seller Central
  • Supply chain finance exposure: PO management, landed cost modeling, freight, tariffs
  • FP&A / three-statement modeling
Compensation and benefits:
  • Health insurance stipend
  • Paid time off and federal holidays
Work Arrangement:
  • Standard schedule Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern, with flexibility around client deadlines and month-end close
  • Must currently reside in the US and be authorized to work without sponsorship, now or in the future
  • Full-time W2 position, fully remote within the US

We are currently unable to hire residents of:
California, New York, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Massachusetts, Illinois, Hawaii, or Alaska

Fullridge LLC d/b/a Fullridge Advisors is an equal opportunity employer.

Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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