Contract Senior Accountant

Job Title: Senior Accountant Job Description This Senior Accountant role provides critical operational accounting support across billing and revenue, fuel inventory, and fuel settlement activities. You will step into a high-impact consulting position to maintain day-to-day accounting, reconciliation, and transactional finance operations while permanent team members focus on integration and acquisition initiatives.

The role emphasizes strong hands-on accounting, analysis, invoicing, reconciliation, and high-volume transaction processing in a complex, multi-system environment. Responsibilities Manage customer billing activities and ensure invoices are processed accurately and on time. Review and resolve invoice exceptions and billing discrepancies to maintain accurate customer accounts. Research transactional issues across multiple systems and provide clear, documented resolutions.

Reconcile revenue-related transactions and support revenue reporting activities. Collaborate with internal and external business partners to resolve billing and revenue questions and issues. Support month-end close processes, including journal entries, general ledger activities, and operational accounting tasks. Identify opportunities for process improvements and increased efficiency in billing and revenue workflows.

Perform daily fuel inventory reconciliations across multiple locations and systems. Research and resolve volume, inventory, and transaction discrepancies related to fuel movements. Monitor inventory movements through pipelines, terminals, trucks, rail, and marine transportation, ensuring data accuracy. Analyze inventory-related activity and identify issues requiring follow-up and corrective action.

Support transportation cost tracking and reconciliation efforts tied to fuel distribution. Work closely with operations, logistics, and accounting teams on reporting, analysis, and process improvement initiatives. Process and reconcile supplier and customer transactions related to fuel purchases and settlements. Review invoices, settlements, and supporting documentation for accuracy and completeness.

Investigate transactional and settlement discrepancies and work with stakeholders to resolve issues promptly. Support account reconciliations and operational accounting activities for fuel settlements and related costs. Manage high volumes of transactional data across multiple systems with strong attention to detail. Partner with vendors, suppliers, and internal business teams on month-end close, reporting, and analysis activities.

Contribute to accurate financial statements, balance sheet integrity, and accruals through thorough reconciliation and reporting. Leverage SAP and other financial systems to support general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and fixed asset accounting. Use Excel, including pivot tables, to analyze large data sets, prepare reports, and support decision-making. Support business continuity by stepping into interim responsibilities and maintaining core accounting operations during integration activities.

Essential Skills Bachelor’s degree in Accounting. Minimum of 3 recent years in consulting or interim Senior accounting roles. Strong accounting experience including general ledger, journal entries, and month-end close. Proficiency in reconciliation of revenue, inventory, supplier, and customer accounts. Experience with accounts payable and accounts receivable processes. Ability to prepare and support financial statements and balance sheet reconciliations.

Experience with accrual accounting and operational accounting activities. Hands-on experience with SAP or similar enterprise resource planning systems. Experience working with fixed asset accounting. Strong Excel skills, including the use of pivot tables for analysis and reporting. Ability to manage and analyze high volumes of transactional data across multiple systems. Experience in billing and invoicing, transaction processing, and customer account management