Senior IT Accountant

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Job Summary

The Senior IT Accountant bridges Finance and Information Technology by providing accounting, budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation, asset accounting, vendor oversight, and financial reporting support for technology operations in accordance with U.S. GAAP and company policies. The Senior IT Accountant works independently to analyze IT financial activity, maintain accurate records, strengthen controls, and provide actionable information to Finance and IT leadership.

Responsibilities

• IT Budgeting and Forecasting: Develops, monitors, and analyzes annual operating and capital budgets for the IT department; compares budgeted costs to actual results; investigates variances; and supports periodic forecasts.
• Expense Tracking and Cost Allocation: Records, reviews, and categorizes IT-related expenses, including cloud services, software licenses, hardware, telecommunications, maintenance, and professional services; allocates costs to the appropriate business units, departments, or projects.
• Vendor and Contract Management: Reviews IT vendor invoices and supporting documentation, monitors software and service renewals, coordinates accounts payable matters for technology suppliers, and evaluates charges for alignment with contract terms.
• Fixed Asset and Software Accounting: Tracks technology capital expenditures and operating expenditures, including hardware, servers, network infrastructure, purchased software, cloud arrangements, and internal-use software development costs; maintains accurate asset records and depreciation or amortization schedules.
• Accounting Operations: Prepares journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, prepaid expense schedules, and supporting analyses for IT-related accounts and month-end close activities.
• Financial Reporting and Analysis: Prepares periodic IT financial reports, budget-to-actual analyses, spending trends, forecasts, and management summaries to support strategic technology decisions.
• Controls and Compliance: Maintains documentation supporting IT financial transactions and accounting conclusions; follows company policies and internal controls; and supports internal and external audit requests.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborates with Finance, IT, Procurement, Legal, Tax, and business leaders to resolve accounting issues, improve data quality, and establish consistent processes for technology spending.
• Process Improvement: Identifies and implements improvements to IT accounting, reporting, cost allocation, asset tracking, and vendor-management processes, including opportunities for automation and standardization.
• Other Duties: Performs other related accounting and financial analysis responsibilities as assigned.

Position Competency Requirements

Critical Thinking

• Identifies accounting, financial, and process issues that others may miss.
• Evaluates data, assumptions, and supporting documentation to develop sound conclusions.
• Provides practical recommendations for moderately complex situations.

Driving Continuous Improvement

• Establishes methods to monitor and improve…