Published: Apr 08, 2025 - The Senior General Ledger Accountant is responsible for the comprehensive management of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting for designated entities and branches, including payroll, compensation, benefits accounting, and associated balance sheet entries and reconciliations. This position oversees balance sheet reconciliation processes, tax, VAT reporting, and ensures accurate intercompany recharge processes and international assignee accounting in alignment with the Intragroup Service Model team. This role ensures timely and high-quality quarterly business reporting, drives control enhancements and process improvements, and serves as a key liaison between the Finance team and other group divisions such as Tax, Legal, and Group FP&A.

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1. Senior General Ledger Accountant, Redwood Financials, Springfield, IL
Job Summary:
- Prepare month-end journal entries, reconcile balance sheet accounts, and provide monthly close deliverables.
- Maintain account balances by reconciling, researching and resolving all discrepancies, which includes coordinating with other departments to obtain transaction information
- Assist with the annual audit process including the preparation of supporting audit schedules.
- Provide general accounting support and services including general ledger, fixed assets, sales/use, and property tax returns, bank reconciliations
- Maintain, analyze, and reconcile general ledger accounts for accuracy
- Help prepare quarterly and year-end audit schedules
- Interact with departments and functions company-wide, such as A/P, A/R, Payroll, HR, Manufacturing Operations, Engineering and Sales to ensure the integrity and reliability of financial data
- Acts as the primary assistant to the Sr. Accountant for other accounting projects
- Assist and coordinate the accounting within the individual branches.
- Assisting in monthly closing.
Skills on Resume:
- Month-end close (Hard Skills)
- Account reconciliation (Hard Skills)
- Audit support (Hard Skills)
- General ledger (Hard Skills)
- Financial analysis (Hard Skills)
- Cross-functional collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Attention to detail (Soft Skills)
- Time management (Soft Skills)
2. Senior General Ledger Accountant, Summit Accounting Solutions, Reno, NV
Job Summary:
- Control over the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Inventory.
- Assist in the Month/Quarter and Year-end closing.
- Determine applicable provisions
- Overlooking accounting processes
- Responsible for the US GAAP month-end / quarter-end reporting to tight deadlines for multiple entities
- Perform P&L and Balance Sheet monthly entity flux analysis
- Ensure all balance sheet reconciliations are completed promptly and are in line with SOX controls.
- Support corporate accounting from an interim and year-end group audit perspective
- Respond timely to local statutory audit queries
- Work on process improvements, ensuring appropriate controls are in place and processes are fully documented
Skills on Resume:
- Accounts Payable (Hard Skills)
- Accounts Receivable (Hard Skills)
- Month-end closing (Hard Skills)
- P&L analysis (Hard Skills)
- Balance Sheet (Hard Skills)
- Audit support (Hard Skills)
- Process improvement (Soft Skills)
- Timely responses (Soft Skills)
3. Senior General Ledger Accountant, Pinecrest Strategic Finance, Plano, TX
Job Summary:
- Account for and contribute to the production of monthly/quarterly/annual accounts for assigned entities and branches
- Payroll, compensation and related benefits accounting and associated balance sheet entries and reconciliations
- Handle or control balance sheet reconciliation processes where not controlled by other Finance teams
- Reporting and reconciliations Tax and VAT BS
- Prepare reporting for the various jurisdictions served by Finance
- Processing and overview of end-to-end intercompany recharge processing and related activity
- Accounting for intercompany recharges in and recharges out and International Assignee accounting/processes in conjunction with the Intragroup Service Model team.
- Ensure the quarterly reporting of the lines of business assigned to is delivered on time and with high quality.
- Drive identification of any potential gaps in controls and identification of areas for improvement while ensuring consistency between the regions and teams (globally)
- Act as the interface between the Finance team and the rest of the Group, e.g. Tax and Legal teams, Group Cost Management / Controlling, Group FP&A, wider business community for the respective branches/entities
Skills on Resume:
- Monthly accounts (Hard Skills)
- Payroll accounting (Hard Skills)
- Balance sheet (Hard Skills)
- Tax reporting (Hard Skills)
- Intercompany recharges (Hard Skills)
- Process oversight (Soft Skills)
- Control improvements (Soft Skills)
- Cross-functional collaboration (Soft Skills)
4. Senior General Ledger Accountant, Cascade Financial Analytics, Asheville, NC
Job Summary:
- Review and validate the completeness of all journal entries and adjustments (provisions, accruals, etc..)
- Review bank reconciliations
- Ensure Balance Sheet policy maintenance, application, and implementation
- Ensure that Balance Sheet Schedules are properly updated, follow-up and action plans are done on old items and supporting documents are present
- Perform monthly Balance Sheet review with R&A Manager, report escalations
- Review relevant reconciliation of accounts (stocks, suppliers, intercompany, and other general ledgers) as per the defined frequency
- Sign-off balance confirmations
- Review petty cash counts and deposit confirmation
- Ensuring that general ledger accounts are up to date as per Group COFA
- Review and publish CAPEX Management Report
Skills on Resume:
- Journal entries (Hard Skills)
- Bank reconciliations (Hard Skills)
- Balance Sheet (Hard Skills)
- Reconciliation review (Hard Skills)
- Account sign-off (Hard Skills)
- Petty cash (Hard Skills)
- Ledger management (Hard Skills)
- CAPEX reporting (Hard Skills)
5. Senior General Ledger Accountant, Blue Ridge Accounting Services, Fargo, ND
Job Summary:
- Perform account analysis to ensure that journal entries and balances are correct and apply necessary accruals
- Align general ledger accounting practices to support budgeting and forecasting
- Assist in SAP technical queries and coordinate with the central SAP Team
- Develop and document business processes and update policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
- Participate in projects, supervise and support projects related to GL functions
- Attend to escalated issues and concerns
- Audit and Internal Controls
- Assist internal and external auditors, implement recommendations (if any), and take corrective action/s
- Perform regular tests on controls as per ICS requirements
- Support the GL supervisor in managing workload assignments and delegations of the GL Team
Skills on Resume:
- Account analysis (Hard Skills)
- General ledger (Hard Skills)
- SAP coordination (Hard Skills)
- Process documentation (Hard Skills)
- Project supervision (Soft Skills)
- Issue resolution (Soft Skills)
- Audit support (Hard Skills)
- Control testing (Hard Skills)
6. Senior General Ledger Accountant, Riverbend Financial Consultants, Mobile, AL
Job Summary:
- Lead the monthly close process to ensure financial statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP in a timely manner
- Conduct the cash forecast
- Support technical accounting projects
- Assist with financial audits
- Assist in SOX implementation and compliance
- Prepare account reconciliations including cash, prepaids, fixed assets and accrued liabilities
- Assist in the drafting of certain accounting policies and procedures
- Quarterly/Yearly BS and PL flux analyses
- Review and process expense reports at Expensify
- Manage the execution of tax filings, including sale & use/property tax, and local filings
Skills on Resume:
- Monthly close (Hard Skills)
- Cash forecast (Hard Skills)
- Technical accounting (Hard Skills)
- Audit assistance (Hard Skills)
- SOX compliance (Hard Skills)
- Account reconciliations (Hard Skills)
- Policy drafting (Hard Skills)
- Tax filings (Hard Skills)
7. Senior General Ledger Accountant, Oakwood Accounting, Cheyenne, WY
Job Summary:
- Perform general ledger activities requiring insight and understanding of accounting fundamentals and principles
- Apply accounting techniques and standard practices to the classification and recording of financial transactions
- Give advice on accounting matters, based on well-established principles and practices
- Prepare certain parts of income and balance sheet statements, analyse consolidated or other balance sheets, accounting statements and reports
- Perform various tasks in monthly closing, e. g. accruals
- Take part in process improvements and other projects
- Support the yearly audits
- Provide professional support and guidance to junior colleagues
- Prepare monthly international cash funding requirements
- Monitoring all monthly cost bookings and accruals.
- Processing Tax Returns and Payments.
Skills on Resume:
- General ledger (Hard Skills)
- Accounting techniques (Hard Skills)
- Accounting advice (Soft Skills)
- Financial reporting (Hard Skills)
- Monthly closing (Hard Skills)
- Process improvements (Soft Skills)
- Audit support (Hard Skills)
- Cash funding (Hard Skills)