Senior Accountant
Clarksville, TN
Full Time
Accounting
Experienced
SENIOR ACCOUNTANT
Location: Clarksville, TN
Position: Senior Accountant
Department: Accounting
Salary Range: $70,000 – $80,000
GENERAL STATEMENT OF JOB
The Senior Accountant oversees company financial operations, full-cycle payroll, expense management, and core bookkeeping. This role acts as a critical anchor for internal financial controls, ensuring absolute accuracy across credit card platforms, vendor payables, and specialized business sectors. Additionally, this position provides direct analytical support to the Director of Accounting, serves as a key operational backup and assistant for the accounts payable function, and maintains high-level structural oversight of organizational financial standards.
SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Essential Functions:
- Prepare and run weekly full-cycle payroll across the company, including commissions, reimbursements, pay changes, and PTO vouchers.
- Oversee payroll tax deposits, child support orders, credit garnishments, and 401(k) allocations.
- Conduct minor HR administrative functions, including I-9 verifications, E-Verify submissions, and state-level new hire reporting.
- Oversee and audit all business credit card expenses across the organization.
- Code and reconcile monthly credit card statements against internal receipts and general ledger accounts.
- Proactively manage missing receipts and descriptions in the expense platform, holding all employees and managers accountable for staying compliant.
- Assist the accounts payable team with high-volume invoice processing, vendor management, and routine payable workflows.
- Serve as the primary operational backup for accounts payable functions to ensure seamless continuity during peak periods or team absences.
- Consolidate, total, and execute weekly bill payments and tenant security deposit refunds.
- Generate payroll invoicing and borrowed labor invoices (construction/maintenance) to accurately track cross-entity job costs.
- Assist the Director of Accounting with special projects, financial analyses, and operational items as they arise.
- Address urgent financial issues, research accounting discrepancies, and provide data-driven support for emerging business needs.
- Work with other departments to coordinate interdepartmental operations and ensure communication and workflow efficiency.
- Support month-end close and financial reporting.
- Perform monthly bank reconciliations across business accounts.
- Handle daily bank transactions, maintain records, and ensure deposits are securely dropped off.
- Maintain specialized financial records and dedicated bookkeeping for auxiliary business sectors, such as Aviation.
- Perform other duties of a similar nature or level.
MINIMUM EDUCATION AND TRAINING
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related business field required.
- Minimum 5 years of progressive experience handling accounting, full-cycle payroll, or advanced accounts payable/expense management systems.
- Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) candidate preferred.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS REQUIRED
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Knowledge of:
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and financial reporting.
- Payroll processing, tax deposits, garnishments, and related regulatory reporting requirements.
- Accounts payable and receivable practices and procedures.
- Bank and account reconciliation methods and internal financial controls.
- Commercial and residential leasing.
- Computers and related software applications, including accounting and property-management platforms.
Skill in:
- Processing payroll accurately and within established timelines.
- Compiling, analyzing, and summarizing financial information.
- Reconciling accounts and identifying and resolving discrepancies.
- Maintaining accurate and organized financial records with attention to detail.
- Prioritizing time-sensitive tasks and adapting to changing deadlines while maintaining accuracy.
- Communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with subordinates, coworkers, supervisors, the public, etc., sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.
Ability to:
- Perform independently with minimal day-to-day supervision, determining the best approach to achieving required outcomes within established policies.
- Work in a dynamic, fast-paced office setting with strict, time-sensitive deadlines that require quick adaptation to changing operational needs and ad-hoc requests.
Physical Requirements:
The work is sedentary to light work, performed primarily while seated, which requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. It requires close visual acuity for data analysis and repetitive hand/wrist motions for typing.
Applicable physical abilities: Fingering, Mental Acuity, Repetitive Motion, Speaking, Visual Acuity.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
- Salary: $70,000 – $80,000
- Paid Time Off
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k) with 4% Match
- Paid Holidays
- Gym Membership
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