Senior Accountant

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Full Time Professional Crete, Illinois, Crete, IL, US

3 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $70,000.00 To $80,000.00 Annually

This is not just a job opportunity, this is an opportunity to transform lives!

Summary

Bible League International equips the under-resourced Church to make disciples, transforming lives through God’s Word! Our team is excited about God’s calling on our ministry and serves Him in His mission for the world, with commitment and joy. We hope you will consider His leading in using your God-given gifts and abilities to help fulfill the Great Commission in serving at Bible League International!

For more information about Bible League International, visit https://www.bible league.org/ . Also take a moment and view our careers video to learn more about our culture through our staff at Bible League.

The Senior Accountant ensures accuracy, integrity, and timely completion of key accounting activities while providing day-to-day guidance for the Accounting Generalist and Accounts Payable Specialist. This role exercises independent professional judgment within established policies, procedures, and internal controls and serves as the first point of escalation for routine questions.

The role contributes to month-end and year-end close activities, coordinates audit requests, and promotes consistency and timeliness through clear procedures, guidance, and follow-up. It also helps advance the responsible use of approved AI tools and emerging technology to improve efficiency, analysis, and process consistency across accounting functions.

The Senior Accountant operates within established systems and control frameworks, while broader responsibility for accounting policy, global accounting strategy, and overall staffing or organizational structure resides with the Director of Global Accounting.

Duties

Accounting Review

• Maintain ownership of key balance sheet and income statement accounts, with responsibility for accuracy and completeness.
• Prepare journal entries for assigned accounting activity.
• Research and resolve discrepancies and reconciling items.
• Review and maintain fixed asset accounting activity, including capitalization, depreciation, disposals, reconciliations, and supporting documentation.
• Oversee accounting for Charitable Gift Annuities, covering related journal entries, reconciliations, liability activity, and supporting documentation.
• Perform final review of general journal entries prepared by the Cash Operations Manager and escalate items requiring additional information or approval.

Supervision
&
Continuity

• Support day-to-day activities and provide guidance on priorities to direct reports.
• Evaluate work for accuracy, completeness, and compliance with procedures and communicate any training needs or performance concerns to the Director of Global Accounting.
• Function as the first point of escalation for routine accounting questions.
• Promote consistent application of established procedures and internal controls.
• Serve as backup for the Cash Operations Manager during extended absences to ensure critical processes continue without disruption.
• Lead month-end and year-end close activities for key accounting areas.
• Coordinate close-related tasks performed by direct reports.
• Escalate policy questions or cross-functional impacts.
• Monitor fiscal year-end prepaid expenses and prepare related expense relief entries at the start of the new fiscal year.

Organization-Wide Staff Training & Coaching

• Train and onboard department team members on accounting procedures and systems.
• Provide ongoing technical guidance and feedback.
• Encourage…