Senior Accountant

Position: Senior Accountant

Location: JCCT Lenexa, KS Campus

Department: Finance

Purpose:

The purpose of the Senior Accountant position is to ensure the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of JCCT’s financial reporting and revenue processes.

Position Summary:

The Senior Accountant will play a key role in ensuring the integrity and accuracy of JCCT’s financial reporting. This role will focus heavily on revenue recognition, study billing reconciliation, and supporting the monthly close and variance analysis processes. The Senior Accountant will also partner closely with site directors, providing financial insights and guidance, and will support integration activities for newly acquired sites.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced clinical research environment, is detail-oriented, and enjoys both analytical work and cross-functional collaboration.

Key Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

Revenue Recognition & Study Billing

• Ensure accurate and timely revenue recognition in accordance with ASC 606 and internal JCCT policies.
• Perform monthly study billing reconciliations, validating visit activity, billing events, and contract terms.
• Work closely with the clinical operations team to validate milestone-based and per-patient revenue.
• Monitor deferred and unbilled revenue balances and ensure proper cutoff.

Monthly Close & Financial Reporting

• Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations, and financial schedules as part of the monthly close.
• Perform P&L and balance sheet variance analysis and prepare supporting commentary.

Business Partner Support

• Work directly with site directors to explain financial results, answer accounting-related questions, and help interpret study profitability.
• Assist operations leaders in tracking enrollment, study revenue trends, and expense drivers.

Acquisition Integration

• Assist with rolling newly acquired sites into JCCT’s accounting systems and processes.
• Validate opening balance sheets, review acquired study pipelines and assist with systems onboarding.
• Support conversion of legacy financial data into standardized JCCT formats.

Compliance & Process Improvement

• Ensure compliance with GAAP and internal control standards.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve automation, and enhance reporting accuracy.
• Assist with audit requests and support year-end audit requirements. Support preparation of the monthly financial package and dashboards.

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• 3–5 years of relevant accounting experience, preferably including:
• Revenue recognition work
• Financial close processes
• Account reconciliation and analysis

Preferred:

• Experience in clinical research, healthcare, or multi-site service organizations
• Exposure to study billing, clinical trial accounting, or ASC 606
• Experience supporting acquisitions
• CPA or CPA-eligible strongly preferred (but not required)

Skills and Competencies:

• Strong understanding of GAAP
• Proficiency with Excel (VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, pivot tables, modeling)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate financial information clearly to non-finance partners
• High attention to detail and ability to manage multiple deadlines

Why JCCT?

JCCT has provided exceptional customer service to clients, volunteers, and vendors for the last 20 years. This team effort has resulted in our company getting recognized as one of the best clinical research sites in the United States.

We are actively growing through acquisition and organic growth and need high performing individuals to help support our continued success. Our clients come from all over the world to place a study at our research sites. We are proud of what we have accomplished and invite you to explore career opportunities with us. JCCT makes a promise to support, accept and respect you as an individual, in our family focused environment.

Our vision is to make a difference in our world to help improve the health and wellbeing of others through pharmaceutical research and the processes of drug development. Our impact is driven by genuine care, support and customer service provided to our employees, volunteers, and sponsors.

If you are looking for a positive work environment and the opportunity for personal growth and satisfaction, we encourage you to apply at JCCT. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unleash your potential and apply today!

EEO

JCCT provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants. We value diversity at our company, and it is our policy to recruit, hire, and promote qualified individuals without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.