Senior Accountant

Location: New Orleans

Description

We are looking for a skilled and detail-oriented Senior Accountant to join our team in New Orleans, Louisiana. This role is ideal for someone with a strong background in corporate accounting, financial systems, and regulatory compliance. The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining financial accuracy, optimizing processes, and supporting system integrations.

Responsibilities:

- Ensure compliance with GAAP while following all regulatory accounting requirements and other industry compliance standards

- Reconcile general ledger accounts and intercompany transactions

- Serve as point of contact for auditors and other third party and outside regulatory contacts

- Work with other departments and team members using Oracle G/L, A/P and A/R

- Serve as point of contact for IT with activities for system updates, patches, and new module implementations.

- Create ad hoc reports to support management

- Evaluate accounting processes to identify opportunities for automation and efficiency improvements.

Our client is growing rapidly and is ready to add this Senior Accountant position to their robust team in a fast-paced and highly regulated industry. If you have a 4-year accounting degree, are a CPA or CPA candidate and 3+ years of mid to large sized public accounting or corporate accounting, this could be an excellent career move for you! Daily on-site work in downtown New Orleans with paid parking, great base and benefits.

Please apply today or call Carrie Lewis at . Thank you for your interest in Robert Half!

Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, CPA or CPA candidate

- At least 3 years of experience in mid to large sized corporate or public accounting (Big 4 preferred).

- Experience in Oracle, including implementation and configuration.

- Strong understanding of accounting systems architecture, integrations, and reporting structures.

- Solid knowledge of U.S. GAAP; exposure to regulatory accounting is preferred.

- Familiarity with data analysis tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Azure Data Lake is a plus.

- Experience with financial system upgrades, acquisitions, or implementations is highly desirable.

- Proficiency in month-end close processes, general ledger management, and account reconciliation.

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