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Senior Accountant

Aliso Viejo, CA 92656

Posted: 01/23/2026 Job Titles: ACCT - Accountant, ACCT - Sr. Accountant Job Number: 5659 Pay Rate: 125,000

Job Description

The Senior Accountant is a key contributor to the Company’s financial close and reporting process, with direct responsibility over multiple areas of the balance sheet and income statement. This role goes beyond routine close execution and requires strong judgment, technical rigor, and ownership of complex reconciliations and analyses. The Senior Accountant works in a fast-paced public company environment, partnering closely with cross-functional teams and auditors, and is expected to deliver precise, high-quality results under tight reporting deadlines while supporting a strong SOX control framework.
 
  • Perform various month-end close activities in the areas of AP and related accruals, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, investment accounts & operating expenses 
  • Prepare monthly flux/variance analysis, analyzing trends across a variety of departments and accounts. Recommend journal entries to adjust for reclasses, missed accruals & incorrectly posted items
  • Partner with AP team to ensure invoices are posted accurately, and coordinate month end accruals by utilizing our integrated AP software
  • Book monthly investment accounting entries from the Clearwater platform and provide reports to SEC team for 10-K/10-Q disclosures
  • Ensure proper amortization of prepaid expenses including insurance, patent annuities and software licenses
  • Preparing the monthly lease accounting journal entries in accordance with ASC 842 using Visual Lease software
  • Bank reconciliations for US and OUS entities
  • Fixed Asset journal entries, & roll forward, corresponding with asset owners for asset status & year-end impairment testing
  • Partnering with the procurement team to generate supplier spend reports and various other analyses
  • Monthly (CA DE542) and annual tax information reporting (1099, 1042-S) for accounts payable
  • Continuous process improvement to streamline the month end close, reconciliations and operational processes
  • Various balance sheet reconciliations for areas of responsibility
  • Support the annual external audit and provide documentation to satisfy audit requests
  • Setup of customer and supplier master records in QAD
  • Other duties as assigned

EXPERIENCE:
  • Advanced MS Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP, etc.)
  • Solid understanding of U.S. GAAP
  • Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
  • Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute average, ratios, percent.
  • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations. 
  • Must have good phone skills and interact well with others. 
  • Must always present themselves professionally.
  • Requires minimal supervision.
QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance; minimum 3 years of accounting experience. 2 or more years of experience in public accounting preferred
  • CPA preferred
  • Must be flexible and adaptable to change
  • Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize multiple projects under tight deadlines and work independently

email: dgavello@allianceresourcegroup.com

Meet Your Recruiter

Dean Gavello, MBA
Manager, Executive Search

After almost 30 years in executive search and recruiting, Dean Gavello is an incredible partner to Alliance’s clients and candidates.  Dean joined Alliance in 2016 after successfully owning and operating an executive recruiting firm for more than two decades. He has an innate ability to understand industry trends and is extremely skilled at coaching clients in how to best position their role and candidates on how to best showcase their skillset in the current market.

His portfolio spans multiple industries including manufacturing, technology, pharmaceutical, medical device, healthcare, public accounting, and aerospace. Dean earned an MBA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Connecticut. He is also a former president of the Orange County Chapter of California Staffing Professionals. 

A father of four, Dean and his wife share their home with a dog, two cats, and a fish named Blue.

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