Senior General Ledger Accountant

Senior General Ledger Accountant

National Veterinary Associates (NVA)

Position Summary

The Senior General Ledger Accountant supports the general ledger function for NVA’s multi-entity veterinary operations, including month-end close, account reconciliations, journal entries, financial analysis, and ad hoc reporting. This role ensures the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of financial information in accordance with U.S. GAAP, internal controls, and company accounting policies.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute month-end close activities in accordance with established deadlines and close procedures.
• Prepare, review, and post journal entries, including accruals, reclassifications, allocations, and other adjustments, with complete supporting documentation.
• Ensure expenses and liabilities are recorded accurately and in the correct accounting period.
• Prepare and maintain timely, accurate balance sheet reconciliations in accordance with company policies, including account analysis, supporting documentation, transaction detail, and clear explanations of balances and variances.
• Proactively research reconciling items, identify root causes, document clearly, and propose resolutions for outstanding items.
• Analyze general ledger activity to validate balances, investigate unusual fluctuations and variances, and identify trends, anomalies, and potential misclassifications.
• Translate financial data and account activity into meaningful analysis, identifying trends, variances, risks, and actionable insights.
• Respond to ad hoc requests for financial analysis and account detail from internal business partners and other stakeholders.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to apply AI and automation to close, reconciliation, and reporting processes, and help document and refine AI-assisted workflows.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including general ledger accounting and month-end close.
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, internal controls, and balance sheet accounting.
• Demonstrated experience preparing balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, account analyses, and supporting schedules.
• Advanced Excel skills, including PivotTables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, and data analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment and critical thinking to investigate issues, evaluate alternatives, and develop recommended solutions before escalating to management.
• Strong sense of ownership and initiative, with the ability to anticipate next steps, independently drive issues to resolution, and bring forward solutions rather than simply identifying problems.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with AI-enabled tools, automation platforms, or data tools (e.g., Power Query, Power BI, etc.).
• Process innovation mindset.

Preferred

• Experience with Oracle ERP or a comparable enterprise general ledger system.
• Experience supporting multi-location accounting operations in a centralized corporate accounting or shared services environment with high-volume transactions.
• Working knowledge of AI tools and a demonstrated willingness to integrate them into accounting workflows, including writing effective prompts and critically evaluating outputs for accuracy.
• Public accounting audit experience.
• CPA, progress toward CPA, or other relevant accounting certification.

National Veterinary Associates (NVA) is a leading North American pet health care company with nearly 1,300 locations spanning general practice veterinary hospitals, Ethos emergency and specialty hospitals, and pet resorts and equine veterinary care. With approximately 40,000 team members, we care for pets and support pet families in communities across the United States and Canada.  Our purpose is to give pets and the people who love them more quality years together, and our mission is to make care more personal, easy and accessible while advancing medicine and care across every stage of life. Across NVA, we support our teams with the resources, expertise and opportunities they need to deliver exceptional care and help shape the future of veterinary and pet care.

Purpose: Give pets and the people who love them more quality years together

Mission: Transform the pet family experience to be personal, easy and accessible, while advancing medicine and care across every stage of life. 

Values: Care Deeply, Do What’s Right, One Team, Own It, Shape What’s Next 

One NVA: Bringing General Practice & Ethos Together

NVA is built to make care personal, easy and accessible, while advancing medicine across every stage of a pet’s life. 

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