Senior Onboarding Accountant

GrowthForce delivers the financial clarity, accuracy, and strategic insight growing organizations need to thrive through our outsourced accounting solutions. A proven team-based service model – pairing each client with a dedicated controller, senior accountant, and staff accountant – ensures depth of expertise, consistent support, and a seamless extension of their internal operations.

We leverage top talent from across the country, bringing together diverse perspectives and specialized skill sets to provide superior service regardless of location. Our culture is grounded in core values that guide every interaction: Put People First, Love What You Do, Create Phenomenal Experiences, Lead By Example, and Communicate Consistently and Openly. These principles shape how we serve clients, collaborate as a team, and continuously elevate our standards.

We are also proud to be a subsidiary of G&A Partners, a nationally recognized leader in the human resources space. This affiliation strengthens our ability to support businesses with comprehensive, scalable, and high-quality back-office solutions.

Summary

As a Senior Onboarding Accountant, you will be our new client’s first impression of the GrowthForce service team. You will be responsible for performing the standard onboarding and implementation checklist, executing projects and initiatives discovered during the sales and scoping process, and identifying additional ways to improve financial insights and visibility.  Exercising judgment and discretion, you will clean up the books and document processes and procedures before handing off the client to the recurring services team and moving on to the next implementation. You will have an excellent knowledge of systems, integrations, and conversions and have a passion for identifying simple solutions for complex challenges.

• Serves as the initial point of contact for new clients.
• Serves as a mentor and supports other implementation associates.
• Gains access to clients’ systems and, in some cases, converts to our platforms.
• Anticipates project risks, addresses any challenges, reduces issues, and escalates to appropriate parties.
• Identifies creative ways to overcome obstacles.
• Develops an understanding of current client processes and identify gaps and areas of opportunity.
• Executes clean-up activities to get accounting records up to date and accurate.
• Realigns chart of accounts and financial statements to enhance financial insights and visibility.
• Prepares process documentation to enable a seamless transition to recurring service team.
• Communicates progress updates to clients on a weekly basis

Education

• A bachelor's degree in accounting or finance is required.

Skills & Experience

• 4+ years of accounting experience is required. Outsourced accounting onboarding experience strongly preferred.
• Excellent people, customer service, organizational and presentation skills.
• Extremely detail oriented and focused on completion and follow up.
• Strong collaboration, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Ability and desire to multi-task and take on multiple projects with competing priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent work habits and self-motivation.
• A passion for building and being part of a team.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

G&A Partners as an Equal Opportunity Employer considers all applicants and prohibits discrimination of any type on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances. Our management team is dedicated to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment based on any of these characteristics. We are committed to this policy and achieving a diverse workforce with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs and general treatment during employment.