Sr. Financial Reporting Accountant

A growing organization in the Kentwood, Michigan area is partnering with our team to add a newly created Senior Financial Reporting Accountant to its finance and accounting function. This is an excellent opportunity for a detail-oriented accounting professional to step into a high-impact role focused on supporting accurate, timely, and complete financial reporting. The position will play a key part in close activities, account analysis, and reconciliations, while helping ensure the integrity of the general ledger and broader financial records. This individual will also collaborate across finance, accounting, and operational teams to resolve transactional issues, enhance internal controls, and drive improvements in reporting processes and efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Drive month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close tasks by preparing entries, accruals, reclasses, and supporting schedules that keep financial results accurate and on schedule.
• Review general ledger and balance sheet accounts, complete reconciliations, and investigate outstanding items to ensure discrepancies are cleared promptly.
• Evaluate account activity and financial results to spot unusual movements, aging issues, and posting errors, then recommend corrective action.
• Match subledger data to the general ledger across areas such as payables, vendor activity, inventory, projects, service operations, customer deposits, deferred revenue, and intercompany balances.
• Research transaction-level issues involving purchase orders, receipts, invoices, cost allocations, inventory movements, and other system-generated accounting records.
• Support accounting analysis tied to inventory, project costs, service activity, and intercompany transactions, including review of variances and unresolved balances.
• Assist with period-end cutoff procedures, foreign currency analysis, accrual support, and preparation of schedules used for management reporting and external audit requests.
• Collaborate with accounting, finance, IT, and operations teams to improve data quality, resolve reporting challenges, and identify opportunities for automation and process enhancement.
• Maintain documentation that supports internal controls, policy compliance, and audit readiness while helping identify control gaps or nonstandard transactions.
• Prepare recurring and ad hoc financial analysis for leadership, highlighting trends, risks, variances, and operational issues using detailed accounting data.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a closely related discipline.
• At least 3 years of experience in accounting, financial analysis, or a similar corporate finance environment.
• Hands-on experience with month-end close, general ledger maintenance, journal entry preparation, and account reconciliation.
• Strong knowledge of financial statements, core accounting principles, and balance sheet analysis.
• Advanced Excel capability, including PivotTables, formulas, and working with large datasets.
• Experience using enterprise accounting or ERP systems; familiarity with FI/CO environments is preferred.
• Ability to analyze variances, identify root causes of discrepancies, and communicate findings clearly to business partners.