Senior Accountant — Remote Contract Opportunity
Overview
Join a globally recognized professional services organization as a Senior Accountant supporting critical global accounting operations. This role will focus on compensation-related accruals, month-end close activities, reconciliations, audit support, and process improvements across multiple regions. The ideal candidate is an experienced, independent accounting professional who can manage competing priorities, analyze financial data, and collaborate effectively with finance, payroll, HR, and other stakeholders.
This is a contract role with an estimated duration of four or more months and potential for contract-to-hire consideration.
Required Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- At least one year of relevant general accounting experience
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP and standard accounting principles, methods, and applications
- Experience supporting month-end close activities, including accruals, journal entries, reconciliations, and reporting
- Strong analytical skills, including the ability to identify trends and variances between accruals and actual payments
- Ability to work independently with limited oversight while proactively identifying risks, roadblocks, and necessary adjustments
- Experience managing multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders across multiple offices or regions and support standardized processes
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with professionalism and integrity
- Flexible, adaptable approach to changing processes, systems, and priorities
Nice to Have Skills
- Exposure to compensation, benefits, bonus, severance, or payroll-related accounting
- Experience working with global accounting operations or distributed teams
- Experience partnering with payroll, HR, or local finance teams
- Familiarity with SAP, Workday, ADP Workforce, or similar financial and human resources systems
- Experience preparing audit schedules and documentation for independent auditors
- Background documenting procedures, controls, and process improvement recommendations
- Experience with financial reporting tools and large enterprise resource planning systems
- Familiarity with the appropriate use of AI tools in accordance with organizational policies
Preferred Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline is required
- One or more years of relevant general accounting experience preferred
- Experience with compensation, benefits, payroll, or global accounting is advantageous but not required
- Candidates with a broader general accounting background are encouraged to apply
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare and record monthly global compensation-related accruals, including bonus, severance, and other benefit programs
- Ensure accurate and timely roll-down of accruals to entity-level books in accordance with US GAAP
- Analyze accrual balances against actual payments and investigate trends, variances, and discrepancies
- Recommend appropriate accounting adjustments and escalate significant accounting judgments or risks
- Collaborate with payroll, HR, and finance stakeholders to ensure compensation-related data flows accurately through systems and into the general ledger
- Support the month-end financial close process
- Prepare monthly reporting packages and materials for senior leadership
- Prepare detailed audit schedules and supporting documentation for year-end reviews
- Draft and maintain clear documentation of procedures and controls
- Identify and support ongoing process and technology improvements
Other Requirements
- Work arrangement: 100% remote for the temporary contract, with candidates located in Eastern or Central Time considered
- Contract-to-hire consideration: Candidates must be local to the Boston area and available to work onsite two days per week, Wednesday and Thursday
- Ability to work a full-time schedule of approximately 40 hours per week
- Successful completion of background screening, identity verification, education verification, and employment verification covering the previous five years before starting
- Professional business-casual attire is required for onsite work; jeans are not permitted
