Senior Bookkeeper

About the role

A firm is seeking a Senior Bookkeeper to manage recurring bookkeeping and month-end close activities for U.S.-based clients. The role suits someone who can work independently, handle complex reconciliations and cleanup projects, communicate directly with client contacts when authorized, and review the work of junior team members.

Key responsibilities

• Own monthly, quarterly and annual bookkeeping cycles for assigned clients
• Perform and review bank, credit-card, loan, payroll, intercompany and other balance-sheet reconciliations
• Investigate unreconciled differences, stale items, unusual transactions and historical errors
• Maintain accurate general ledgers and supporting schedules
• Prepare month-end close packages and management reports for review
• Support accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, depreciation schedules, loans, owner activity and equity accounts
• Assist with cleanup, conversion, catch-up and chart-of-accounts projects
• Review accounts payable and accounts receivable workflows for completeness and accuracy
• Prepare client questions that are specific, organized and easy to answer
• Document accounting policies, recurring procedures and unresolved issues
• Review junior bookkeepers' work and give actionable feedback
• Coordinate deadlines across multiple clients and escalate risks early
• Maintain confidentiality and follow the firm's quality-control procedures

Required profile

• 4-7 years of hands-on bookkeeping, general-ledger or small-business accounting experience
• Demonstrated experience managing books for multiple clients or business entities
• Ability to work independently while keeping clear status updates and documentation
• Strong written and spoken English for communicating with U.S. clients and the team
• Consistent judgment on when to resolve an item, ask a question or escalate an issue

Required skills

• QuickBooks Online or QuickBooks Desktop
• Reconciliations, month-end close, journal entries and financial statements
• Excel or Google Sheets, including lookups, conditional logic, pivot tables and data cleanup
• Ability to analyze balance-sheet accounts and trace activity to source documents

Preferred: experience in a U.S. CPA firm, outsourced accounting practice or client-accounting-services team; multi-entity bookkeeping, payroll reconciliations, sales tax, 1099 support, inventory, fixed assets and debt schedules; improving close checklists and SOPs; coaching junior staff; practice-management and document-management platforms; ACCA / CA or accounting/finance degree.