**Job title: **Senior Accountant
**Type of employment: **Full-time
Shift Schedule: 6:00 AM – 3:00 PM PHT (1-hour lunch)
Own core accounting operations for a professional services environment, with a strong focus on month-end close, GL accuracy, and financial analysis. Work across project/time-tracking data and accounting systems to produce clean, supportable financials and improve accounting processes.
About the Employer:
The client is an accounting services firm that supports clients by building strong financial foundations, maintaining accurate books, and delivering reliable financial insights to guide business decisions.
Company core values:
- Collaboration and teamwork
- High standards and accountability
- Client-first service mindset
- Continuous improvement
- Technology-forward execution
Objective of this role:
- Deliver a consistent, on-time monthly close with complete supporting schedules and documentation.
- Maintain a high-integrity general ledger aligned with GAAP and accrual accounting standards.
- Strengthen financial visibility through analysis (project costing, revenue recognition, and profitability insights where applicable).
- Improve accounting workflows and controls to increase efficiency and reduce errors.
Responsibilities:
- Manage monthly close end-to-end, including reconciliations, accruals, and support schedules.
- Ensure general ledger accuracy, proper coding, and clean audit trails.
- Apply strong accrual accounting and GAAP principles (rev rec, direct labor, project costing as relevant).
- Pull, clean, and analyze large datasets using Excel to support close and reporting (pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP).
- Work with the team's project management/time tracking tools (e.g., Double and Harvest/Tsheets-type systems) to validate time, costs, and allocations.
- Support payroll-related accounting workflows through coordination with payroll processing tools (ADP/Paychex/Gusto) as needed.
- Produce financial analysis and insights to support decision-making (trends, variances, project performance).
- Identify process gaps and implement improvements (templates, checklists, controls, automation where possible).
Required skills and qualifications:
- Strong accrual accounting and GAAP knowledge (professional services experience is a plus).
- Demonstrated experience running month-end close with supporting documentation.
- Must have strong proficiency in QuickBooks Online (QBO) / QuickBooks Desktop (QBD).
- Experience with Xero is nice to have.
- Familiarity with: Time tracking tools (Harvest/Tsheets-type systems), Payroll processing systems (ADP, Paychex, Gusto)
- Advanced Excel proficiency: pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, cleaning and sifting through large datasets.
- Strong time management and prioritization; can meet deadlines consistently.
- Adaptable and able to learn new tools/processes quickly.
- Team player with clear communication and collaboration habits.
Preferred skills and qualifications
- Accounting experience in professional services (revenue recognition, direct labor, project costing).
- Experience working with project management systems such as Double (or similar).
- Process improvement mindset (building close checklists, standardizing reconciliations, improving controls/accuracy).
- Ability to produce clear, actionable financial insights (variance analysis, margin/profitability by project).