Senior Accountant Job in Philadelphia, PA

Senior Accountant

We are looking for a Senior Accountant to join a healthcare-focused nonprofit organization located in the Greater Philadelphia Region. This Senior Accountant contract opportunity has the potential to become permanent and is ideal for a detail-oriented finance specialist with strong experience in nonprofit accounting, grant administration, and day-to-day transactional accounting. The person in this role will contribute to budgeting, financial analysis, reporting, and compliance activities while helping maintain accurate grant and payroll-related records.

What you get to do every single day:

• Contribute to the annual budgeting cycle by gathering financial information, organizing supporting documentation, and assisting with requests related to external audits.
• Prepare and interpret financial analyses that highlight operating patterns, spending variances, and cost trends, then communicate practical recommendations based on the results.
• Evaluate accounting controls and finance procedures on an ongoing basis to support compliance expectations and identify opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Oversee recurring grant billing activities, including monthly and quarterly invoicing, while maintaining accurate records tied to funding requirements.
• Develop and maintain payroll allocation schedules and complete related accounting entries to support accurate expense distribution in the general ledger.
• Reconcile supply and payroll-related expenditures to ensure transactions are properly recorded and aligned with grant and organizational reporting needs.
• Partner with accounting leadership to support federal grant billing processes and assist with year-end financial reporting activities.
• Work closely with accounts payable, payroll, and program teams to ensure receivables, staffing expenses, and grant charges are assigned correctly across funding sources.