Senior Accountant

Are you ready to own a core accounting process, play a lead role in month-end close, and exercise independent judgment?

At Spotlight, it’s our mission to craft and sustain a successful Influence Orchestration program for our clients. The Senior Accountant supports that mission as the owner of full-cycle Accounts Payable and by playing a lead role in month-end close.

This position is well suited to someone who can work independently, exercise sound judgment on accrual-basis accounting, and take ownership of a growing set of close responsibilities without close supervision.

Accounts Payable

• Facilitate bill entry, approval routing, and payment tracking

• Review, post, and reconcile all corporate card expenses

• Verify and post employee expense reports; resolve employee issues

• Review, post, and reconcile relevant bank transactions

• Maintain and reconcile various balance sheet subledgers

• Ad hoc reporting as required

Month-End Closing Tasks

• Execute required entries for accrual basis reporting (enter accruals, prepare and post prepaid and amortized expenses)

• Prepare salary/wage accrual and reversal entries, and bonus accrual entries

• Prepare cost allocation entries

• Support revenue recognition analysis as a contributor, escalating judgment calls to the Controller

• Support review of financial statements for accuracy

Annual Tasks

• 1099 reporting

• Support A/P functions of financial audit

Other

• Additional projects and duties as assigned

Required

• 3+ years of experience in accounts payable, general ledger accounting, or a combined accounting role

• Demonstrated ability to own month-end close tasks (accruals, reconciliations) independently

• Working knowledge of GAAP accrual-basis accounting

• Experience with cloud-based AP platforms (BILL, Ramp, or equivalents)

• Comfortable owning close tasks independently with minimal supervision

• Strong organizational habits and clean documentation practices

Nice to Have

• Net Suite experience

• Exposure to multi-entity or multi-subsidiary accounting

• Experience supporting revenue recognition or subscription billing analysis

Start Date:

October 2026

Work style:
Hybrid

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