Pansophic Learning is seeking a Senior Accountant to support the national expansion of our K-12 public charter schools. The ideal candidate is an exceptionally talented individual with experience in a multi-subsidiary, high growth organization to fill this critical role. This position is responsible for all daily and monthly close accounting operations including the accounting, reconciliation, and reporting of multiple schools. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is highly motivated to succeed, ready to contribute, learn, and grow in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
The Senior Accountant should be a dynamic individual who is motivated by working with a fun and driven team to build a leading education company. We don’t sell widgets or provide consulting services – our mission is to help children around the world learn and succeed in life, and we have big plans to grow.
**This role is based in our McLean, VA headquarters and operates on a hybrid work schedule**
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support all general ledger tasks including monthly close and journal entries for multiple ledgers
- Perform monthly reconciliations for multiple legal entities of sub ledgers/calculated schedules against ledger and assess for reasonableness of ending balances
- Lead revenue and deferred revenue reconciliations and analysis
- Assist with preparation of financial statements
- Perform variance analyses for financial statements and explain fluctuations from month to month, year over year, and against plan
- Prepare intercompany reconciliations
- Identify possible efficiencies in existing processes and propose solutions
- Participation in implementing process improvements
- Support various Accounting projects
- Assist with Accounting onboarding of new acquisitions
- Assist in training junior staff
- Supervise two direct reports
- Ability to analyze and validate financial statements
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or related field
- 5+ Years of accounting experience
- Demonstrate intermediate to advanced skills and knowledge of Excel, as well as other Microsoft Office applications
- Knowledge of and proficiency in an ERP system
- High level of attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to build relationships with all levels
- Ability to perform highly detailed work under tight deadlines and manage competing priorities
- Demonstrated history of problem solving
- Ability to work both independently and within a team for a dynamic, growing company
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What We Do
Pansophic Learning is an education company that strives to provide students and educators exceptional learning solutions that enable them to maximize their success academically and in life, regardless of geographic, financial, or demographic circumstance.
These learning solutions include high quality content, technology, teaching and exceptional schools. We currently have several operating businesses that are located in the United States, Switzerland, and the Middle East. These businesses include online schools, brick and mortar schools, blended schools. Our Capital Education business partners with colleges to help them implement blended learning or online learning in a traditional college environment.
Pansophic Learning was founded to accelerate the proliferation of high quality solutions for education not only in the U.S. but also globally. With this new company, we hope to address the following goals:
Expand technology based learning globally to generate better outcomes and more efficient educational models.
Optimize the intersection of blended learning and technology based learning to maximize the learning efficiency ratio and generate high quality student outcomes
Utilize technology to expand access, improve the quality of outcomes and lower the cost of education
Expand technology into other educational markets where it can significantly improve the efficiency or effectiveness of learning
Acquire or invest in companies or technologies that have the potential to improve learning outcomes that can benefit from our expertise, experience and networks
