Senior Accountant

Job Location s US-NY-West Henrietta

Position Type Full-Time

Job Location Type Hybrid

Min Pay Range USD $69,000.00/Yr.

Max Pay Range USD $94,000.00/Yr.

At Lewis, we’re not just trimming trees — we’re building a future. As the second-largest utility vegetation management company in North America and a proud employee-owned business, we believe every person on our team matters. When you join Lewis, you're not just taking a job — you're investing in your future.

• Elevate your career with us — we prioritize training and internal promotions!
• Join a vibrant team that champions safety, values your feedback, and fosters a strong sense of camaraderie!
• Shape your future with us through our fantastic Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)!

What You’ll Do as a Senior Accountant:

• Prepare accurate, timely consolidated financial statements, including the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Statement of Cash Flows.
• Participate in weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual closes by preparing journal entries and supporting schedules.
• Administer financial close automation tools for reconciliations, tasks, matching, and consolidation processing; serve as a subject matter expert for these applications and processes.
• Record and reconcile intercompany transactions, confirm balances with subsidiaries, and execute financial statement consolidations with monthly data integrity validations.
• Prepare, review, and file sales and use tax returns across multiple jurisdictions; maintain filing calendars and state and local requirements.
• Review transactions for proper tax law and rate application, ensure timely and accurate tax payments, reconcile returns to the general ledger, and investigate variances.
• Prepare weekly customer suspense analyses as needed and work with Contract Management to apply items to the appropriate customers and resolve differences.
• Support vendor onboarding and change-management procedures by verifying vendor identities and banking information and escalating concerns or potential conflicts of interest.
• Prepare monthly account reconciliations, resolve reconciling items promptly, and prepare monthly account variance analyses explaining causes.
• Maintain organized, audit-ready documentation and prepare information for the fiscal year-end financial statement audit.
• Follow established internal controls, policies, and procedures; improve reporting processes and documentation.
• Lead or support special projects and perform other duties assigned by management.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
• 2–5 years of experience in financial reporting and analysis.

Preferred:

• CPA or CMA candidate.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Strong understanding of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across functions, take initiative, and handle frequent interruptions.
• Ability to prioritize by urgency and relevance, manage changing priorities, and meet multiple deadlines.
• Understanding of how accounting responsibilities affect internal and external stakeholders; ability to build productive working relationships.
• Ability to refine accounting cycles and align daily processes with business goals.
• Learning mindset, including evaluating successes and failures to improve performance.
• Clear, concise, tactful, and professional written and verbal communication.
• Ability to learn, configure, and test new software systems independently; proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel and Outlook, and relevant business systems.

Physical Demands:

• Regularly stand, walk, sit for extended periods, reach, and perform repetitive computing tasks.
• Occasionally stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, climb stairs,…