Senior Accountant - Fully Remote

Senior Accountant

Remote with Travel

$100-110k + fully covered health insurance

Vaco is working with a publicly traded company seeking a hands-on Senior Accountant to support a growing, acquisition-focused organization. This is a unique, project-based accounting role for someone who enjoys stepping into new environments, solving problems, and bringing structure to businesses that have recently been acquired.

The Senior Accountant will travel to newly acquired locations, assess existing accounting practices, help clean up historical accounting issues, strengthen month-end close and reconciliations, and implement standardized processes and controls. This position offers significant exposure to different businesses, accounting environments, and leadership teams.

• Travel to newly acquired companies and operating locations to support accounting integration and transition activities.
• Assess existing accounting processes, identify gaps, and help establish consistent accounting procedures, controls, and best practices
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• Perform accounting cleanup projects, including balance sheet reconciliations, account analysis, journal entry corrections, and general ledger cleanup
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• Assist acquired businesses with improving and standardizing the month-end close process
  , including reconciliations, accruals, and supporting schedules.
• Review historical accounting records and research discrepancies to improve the accuracy and reliability of financial reporting
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• Partner with local accounting teams to document and implement standard operating procedures and scalable processes
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• Support the transition of acquired companies onto the organization's accounting policies, reporting requirements, and ERP environment
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• Provide hands-on accounting support during periods of transition, including filling process or knowledge gaps as needed.
• Partner with corporate accounting, finance, and operational leadership throughout the post-acquisition integration process
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• Identify opportunities to improve controls, reporting, efficiency, and automation across acquired businesses.
• Train and mentor accounting personnel at newly acquired companies on standardized processes and expectations.
• Participate in additional accounting transformation and special projects as the organization continues to grow.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
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• 3-5+ years of progressive accounting experience
  , ideally including general ledger and full-cycle accounting.
• Strong experience with month-end close, journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and account analysis
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• Solid understanding of U.S. GAAP and internal controls
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• Experience with acquisitions, accounting integrations, process improvement, system implementations, or accounting cleanup projects is highly preferred.
• Strong Excel skills and experience working within ERP/accounting systems.
• Comfortable walking into less-structured environments, identifying issues, and creating practical solutions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with both corporate and local accounting teams.
• Willingness to travel regularly to acquired companies and operating locations
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• CPA or public accounting experience is a plus, but not required.

Highspring LLC (d/b/a Vaco by Highspring) and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries ("we," "our," or "Vaco by Highspring") are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by applicable law.

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