Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant

Brilliant Corners is seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Senior Accountant to lead and support a team of Staff Accountants in Accounts Payable. This role is critical to ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant financial operations across the organization. The Senior Accountant will oversee daily transactional accounting, high-volume accounts payable, reconciliations, month-end and year-end close processes, and compliance with nonprofit accounting standards.

This position will work cross-functionally with program, finance, and operations teams to support organizational objectives while developing strong internal controls and process improvements.

Key responsibilities include supervising, coaching, and developing staff accountants, overseeing and reviewing high-volume accounts payable processing, maintaining oversight of vendor setup, managing daily and monthly financial operations, leading and coordinating monthly and year-end close processes, ensuring compliance with GAAP, nonprofit regulations, and funder / donor reporting requirements, collaborating with program teams and Finance leadership to support budgeting, forecasting, and funder reporting, identifying and implementing process improvements to streamline operations and strengthen internal controls, utilizing and helping optimize systems including Sage Intacct (ERP), Paycom (HR / payroll), Lattice (performance management), and Salesforce (program tracking), and supporting special projects and performing other duties as assigned by the Accounting Manager.