Senior Accountant, Finance - Remote

Overview

Vaniam is seeking a detail-oriented, proactive, and tech-forward Senior Accountant to play a key role in month-end close, financial reporting, and audit readiness. This role is fully AI-enabled — a critical component of this position is embracing AI as an everyday tool, using it to streamline repetitive workflows, surface insights from financial data faster, and continuously improve how the finance team operates.

In Short

• Own assigned areas of the month-end and quarter-end close process, including preparation and review of journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations
• Prepare and maintain timely and accurate balance sheet reconciliations
• Investigate and resolve variances, ensuring accurate cutoff and period recognition
• Use AI tools to identify anomalies, flag outliers across large data sets, and accelerate the close process
• Maintain the integrity of the general ledger in Sage Intacct
• Support preparation of standard financial statements and ad hoc reporting for finance leadership
• Leverage AI to automate data gathering, accelerate report generation, and ensure consistency across reporting outputs
• Serve as a key contributor to external audit support, including preparation of schedules, reconciliations, and documentation
• Utilize AI to efficiently organize audit support, draft first-pass responses, and improve audit turnaround time while ensuring accuracy and compliance
• Maintain strong internal controls and documentation to support audit readiness year-round

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and month-end close processes
• Hands-on experience with a mid-market ERP system (Sage Intacct strongly preferred)
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and meet close deadlines
• Proficiency with AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot) and a demonstrated ability to write effective prompts to streamline accounting and finance tasks — active, confident AI use is expected in this role
• Advanced MS Excel skills including VLOOKUPs and pivot tables

Benefits

• High comfort level and genuine enthusiasm for AI tools, with a willingness to continuously expand AI capabilities as the technology evolves
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy
• Collaborative and proactive communicator who surfaces issues early
• Highly organized with the ability to manage competing close deadlines
• Comfortable operating in a fully remote, fast-moving environment