Senior Accountant

The Senior Accountant is the regional accounting lead. This role manages the end-to-end monthly financial close process for designated US regions, ensuring all deadlines are met through task execution and team collaboration. Responsibilities center on maintaining fiscal integrity by preparing journal entries for varied operational expenses and balance sheet adjustments, performing detailed P&L reviews, and serving as a gatekeeper to ensure all entries are audit-ready and fully supported. Beyond journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations, the Senior Accountant will act as a partner to regional controllers and general managers, providing essential financial data, resolving complex reconciling items, and training field staff to improve data accuracy at the source. The role drives operational excellence by documenting accounting procedures and leads process improvement projects to streamline team workflows.

 

Key Responsibilities:

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management may deem necessary from time to time.

Technical/Business Responsibilities

• Lead the monthly financial close process for designated US region(s).

• Collaborate with the regional controllers and general managers to ensure financial information is properly recorded. This collaboration may include training users to properly enter data into the accounting system to limit the need for manual corrections.

• Prepare journal entries to record regional expenses such as but not limited to fuel, disposal, transportation, repairs, maintenance, and balance sheet adjustments.

• Perform preliminary P&L review monthly to identify necessary adjustments.

• Function as a journal entry gatekeeper to ensure that all journals prepared are fully supported and audit ready at the time of entry.

• Assist other team members with monthly close tasks to ensure the team meets critical reporting deadlines.

• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations by region, identify and resolve reconciling items, and prepare any adjusting entries.

• Document account reconciliation process to include account purpose, source reports and parameters.

• Highlight and communicate significant reconciling transactions with region controllers and others as necessary and resolve timely.

• Research questions regarding financial transactions utilizing the source systems, contacts, and historical data.

• Lead process improvement projects within the team.

• Provide financial data to regional controllers, general managers or others as requested.

• Review all operations stats monthly for accuracy and completeness.

• Mentor staff accountants.

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies:

• Direct experience in monthly financial closes, preparing balance sheet account reconciliations and collaborating with others to meet deadlines.

• Knowledge of IFRS and US GAAP financial reporting requirements and how to research rules.

• Understanding of financial internal controls.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and investigative skills.

• Ability to interpret an improvement opportunity and design a tool to increase efficiency, including those opportunities presented by others.

• Ability to multi-task and understand prioritization of deliverables in a high-pressure environment.

• Ability to pivot direction as business needs, assignments, or systems change.

• Ability to share ideas and communicate well with managers, controllers, teammates, and others in the field.

• Highly self-motivated and directed and able to work independently.

• A strong attention to detail and high degree of accuracy.

• Ability to present ideas in collaborative, professional language.

• Very strong customer service orientation.

Requirements:

• Accounting/Business BA or BS Degree from a four (4) year college or university (minimum).

• Five (5) to ten (10) years’ experience as a Senior Accountant/Financial Analyst in a medium-to-large business environment.

• CPA or comparable technical designation/advanced degree preferred.

 

We thank you for your interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Please note that GFL does not provide visa sponsorship for this position. Valid work authorization in the country where the job is located is required. Successful candidates will be required to provide valid documentation confirming their eligibility to work in the country where the job is located prior to their start date.

This hiring process may utilize machine-based systems to assist in screening and assessing applicants. Final selection decisions are made by our recruitment team.