Location: Palatine, IL (100% onsite)
Pay Range: $40–45/hr
Role Overview:
Brilliant Financial Staffing has been engaged in a search for a temporary Senior Accountant with a growing publicly traded entertainment and media organization located in Palatine, IL. This company is redefining how consumers experience music and entertainment through premium livestreams, streaming radio, podcasts, and original content. This opportunity supports one of the organization's subsidiaries and offers the chance to work directly with a newly appointed Interim CFO while playing a key role in an upcoming accounting system implementation.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with Finance leadership to support the transition from NetSuite to QuickBooks Online
- Document and map existing accounting processes and workflows
- Translate current accounting procedures into clear process documentation and desktop procedures
- Assist with the design and implementation of new accounting processes within QuickBooks
- Support data validation, reconciliation, and testing activities throughout the system conversion
- Identify opportunities for process improvements, increased efficiencies, and enhanced internal controls
- Provide post-implementation support to ensure accounting workflows function effectively
- Assist with month-end close activities and ongoing daily, weekly, and monthly accounting responsibilities
- Support audit preparation and reporting documentation as needed
- Collaborate closely with operational leaders and Finance leadership to drive successful project outcomes
- ??Handle approximately 100 accounting transactions per week while balancing project-based responsibilities
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of progressive accounting experience, preferably in a fast-paced environment
- Hands-on experience with QuickBooks Online is required
- Previous involvement with an accounting system implementation is highly preferred
- Advanced Excel skills, including daily use of Pivot Tables and VLOOKUPs
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently while also collaborating effectively with leadership and cross-functional teams
- Self-motivated professional who takes initiative, asks thoughtful questions, and brings process improvement ideas to the table
- NetSuite experience is a plus but not required
- ????Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field preferred