Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant
Contract-to-hire
$45-50/hr
Hybrid - Boston

These are the criteria we require:

• Accounting or Finance degree
• 3+ years of experience in financial operations
• Academia or non-profit experience a plus
• Workday or large ERP system experience preferred
• Strong analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills; with high attention to detail and deadlines
• Comfortable working with large data sets
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite; especially Excel with experience in using pivot tables and vlookups
• Ability to prepare account reconciliations and proactively resolve differences; understanding prepaid expenses and deferred revenue
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, deadline oriented department

Some of the specific tasks we are looking for the candidate to perform are:

• Prepare prepaid expenses, misc. receivables, deferred revenue and other balance sheet account reconciliations, as needed
• Reconcile gift awards to budget and determine amounts that will be paid in FY27
• Create accounting adjustments and reclass journal entries related to gifts, student groups
• Research endowed gifts with unspent budget and determine if there are expenses to use to apply to the gift
• Provide support and assistance to the Controller in preparing schedules for the year-end external audit; setting up reconciliation spreadsheets and online folders for FY27

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