Senior Accountant
CFS
Stamford, CT
Senior Accountant
About the Role:
Join the finance team at a mission-driven nonprofit organization where we've successfully placed multiple accounting and finance professionals.
What You'll Do:
- Oversee monthly and year-end financial close processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
- Review and prepare complex financial statements and management reports in compliance with GAAP
- Lead account reconciliations for balance sheet accounts including cash, investments, and debt
- Manage journal entry processes including complex accruals, deferrals, and reclassifications
- Drive budget variance analysis and provide actionable insights to leadership
- Coordinate audit activities and prepare comprehensive schedules for external auditors and tax preparers
- Serve as key liaison during NetSuite implementation, including data mapping, testing, and training
- Mentor junior accounting staff and review their work for accuracy
- Streamline accounting processes and identify opportunities for efficiency improvements
- Partner with department heads to address financial inquiries and support operational needs
- Prepare grant reporting and restricted fund accounting as needed
- Lead special projects and ad hoc financial analysis
What You Bring:
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience
- Solid command of GAAP and nonprofit accounting principles
- Proven ability to work autonomously and manage competing priorities
- Strong leadership presence with mentoring or supervisory experience
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
Preferred:
- NetSuite or similar cloud-based ERP experience
- Nonprofit or fund accounting background
- Experience leading or supporting system implementations or conversions
- Grant compliance and reporting knowledge
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MaxSalary: USD80000
MinSalary: USD70000
About the Company
CFS
Founded by CPA firms in 1994, Creative Financial Staffing has spent over 30 years helping job seekers and employers succeed. In fall 2025, we rebranded as CFS—a name that reflects our full range of expertise while staying true to the trusted company you know.
CFS is the industry’s leading employee-owned staffing firm, connecting top talent in accounting, finance, technology, and human resources. We provide skilled professionals on both a temporary and permanent basis across diverse industries, leveraging our extensive network to match the right people with the right opportunities.
Our dedication to excellence extends to our award-winning culture, recognized repeatedly for growth, recruiting, workplace environment, and employee support. Honors include Forbes’ “America’s Best Recruiting and Temporary Staffing Firms,” Staffing Industry Analysts’ top U.S. staffing rankings, FlexJobs’ Top 100 Companies for Remote and Hybrid Work, Top Workplaces USA, Newsweek’s Best Practices awards, and more.