Senior Accountant

Company: Marvel HR Department: Finance & Operations Reports to: VP, Finance & Operations Location: Knoxville, TN (Onsite / Hybrid)
Status: Full-time, Exempt

We’re a growing PEO/HR services company, and accounting here is not a back‑office cost center — it’s how we protect client trust and our own margins. You’ll own the close, keep our reconciliations tight, and make sure the money movement behind payroll, taxes, and benefits is accurate to the penny. PEO accounting is high‑volume and high‑stakes: multiple EINs, client funding cycles, and tax liabilities that flow across hundreds of worksite employees.

If you came up in public accounting and want to apply that rigor inside a fast‑moving company instead of auditing one, this is your seat.

• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual close — journal entries, accruals, and a clean, on‑time GL.
• Reconcile client payroll funding, ACH batches, and trust/clearing accounts; flag funding gaps or timing risks before they hit a payday.
• Reconcile payroll tax liabilities, deposits, and filings across multiple EINs; partner with payroll on variances.
• Reconcile benefits and workers’ comp billing — premiums collected vs. carrier invoices vs. enrollment.
• Prepare financial statements and the schedules behind them; explain the variances, don’t just report them.
• Own balance sheet reconciliations and keep an audit‑ready trail for every account you touch.
• Support cash management and forecasting tied to client funding cycles.
• Assist with annual audit, tax prep, and workers’ comp audits as the internal point of contact.
• Build and tighten the process: spot the manual step that breaks at scale and fix it.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
• 1–2 years of public accounting experience (audit or tax) — ideally with exposure to payroll, multi‑entity, or services clients.
• Strong command of GAAP and the discipline that comes from a public accounting environment.
• Comfort with high‑volume reconciliations and large data sets; you find the needle without losing the day.
• Proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, lookups, building a clean reconciliation from messy data).
• Sharp attention to detail and ownership — you catch the headcount mismatch and the missing line before anyone else does.
• Clear, direct communication; you can tell payroll, ops, or a client exactly what you see and what to do about it.

• CPA, or actively pursuing licensure.
• Experience in PEO, ASO, staffing, payroll, or another multi-EIN service business.
• Familiarity with payroll/HR platforms and how the GL ties back to them.
• Exposure to ACH/funding operations and bank reconciliation at volume.

• First 90 days: You own a clean, on-time close and have a firm grip on our reconciliation set — client funding, payroll tax, and benefits billing.
• By 6 months: You’ve found and closed at least one process gap that was costing us time or accuracy, and leadership trusts your numbers without re‑checking them.

We’re building the infrastructure of a company that’s scaling, which means real ownership, visible impact, and a direct line to leadership — not a layer of bureaucracy between you and the work that matters. You’ll see how accounting connects to the actual business: the clients we serve and the margins we run.

Marvel HR is an Equal Opportunity Employer.