{"id":1159821,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ddn-senior-accountant","title":"Senior Accountant","company":{"id":672909,"name":"DDN","domain":"ddn.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ddn","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["New York, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":130000,"max":165000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":165000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Microsoft Excel","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T21:47:23Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-28T03:43:19Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"Job Requisition: Senior Accountant\nLocation\nNew York (Hybrid)\nPosition Summary\nWe are seeking a Senior Accountant to join our Corporate Accounting team and support a combination of accounting operations, process improvement, and finance transformation initiatives.\nOur accounting organization operates across multiple global entities, with processes and close activities that have evolved independently over time. This role will work closely with accounting teams to help improve consistency, efficiency, and visibility across these activities, including supporting enhancements to our global close calendar and related processes.\nThis is a highly visible, hands-on role for someone who is comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with significant complexity and multiple workstreams occurring simultaneously. The ideal candidate will have a strong accounting foundation, be comfortable working through detailed accounting activities, and have an interest in identifying opportunities to simplify manual processes, improve controls, and create more scalable ways of working.\nIn the near term, this individual will also play an important role in our transition from Oracle to Workday Financials, supporting Q4 testing, process validation, issue resolution, and accounting readiness ahead of go-live.\nOver time, the role will continue to support monthly and quarterly accounting activities while partnering with the broader team on process improvements, automation opportunities, and initiatives designed to make the accounting organization more efficient and scalable.\nKey Responsibilities\nSupport monthly and quarterly close activities, including journal entries, account reconciliations, financial statement review, flux analysis, and other general ledger activities as needed.\n\nSupport the ongoing development and improvement of the Company's global accounting close calendar, helping coordinate activities, dependencies, and deadlines across accounting teams and entities.\n\nReview existing accounting and close processes to identify opportunities for greater consistency, efficiency, and simplification.\n\nPartner with accounting teams across entities and geographies to improve visibility into close status, outstanding activities, dependencies, and potential bottlenecks.\n\nAssist with the development and monitoring of close metrics, including timeliness, outstanding activities, reconciliation status, recurring bottlenecks, and post-close adjustments.\n\nDevelop and maintain accounting process documentation, including close procedures, process flows, ownership matrices, and accounting policies.\n\nPartner cross-functionally with FP&A, Payroll, Procurement, Tax, Treasury, and other teams where processes intersect with accounting and financial reporting.\n\nExecute and coordinate accounting-related testing in Workday, including end-to-end process testing, validation of accounting results, identification of defects, and confirmation that key accounting processes operate as designed.\n\nEvaluate existing Oracle processes as part of the Workday implementation and identify opportunities to simplify, automate, or redesign processes rather than simply replicating current-state workflows.\n\nPartner with implementation teams and accounting stakeholders to resolve testing issues and ensure accounting requirements are appropriately reflected in the new ERP environment.\n\nSupport post-go-live stabilization and continue identifying opportunities to leverage Workday functionality to improve accounting efficiency, controls, and reporting.\n\nParticipate in broader accounting process improvement and finance transformation initiatives as the organization continues to scale.\n\nHelp promote greater consistency and standardization across accounting processes while balancing local entity and business requirements.\n\nQualifications\nBachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.\n\nMinimum of 5 years of progressive accounting experience.\n\nStrong understanding of U.S. GAAP, general ledger accounting, account reconciliations, financial reporting, and month-end close processes.\n\nAbility to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment with multiple moving parts and competing priorities.\n\nStrong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders and workstreams.\n\nExperience developing close calendars, coordinating cross-functional close activities, or driving close acceleration initiatives.\n\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills with an interest in process improvement, automation, and accounting transformation.\n\nAdvanced Excel skills and comfort working with large and complex data sets.\n\nExperience with Workday Financials.\n\nCombination of Big 4 public accounting experience and industry accounting experience strongly preferred.\n\nCPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification preferred.\n\nExperience participating in an ERP implementation, finance transformation, or significant accounting process improvement initiative strongly preferred.\n\nExperience with Oracle ERP or similar enterprise financial systems preferred.\n\nWhy This Role\nThis is an opportunity to play an important role in the continued evolution of our accounting organization. The Senior Accountant will gain exposure to a broad range of accounting activities while helping improve processes, strengthen controls, and support the Company's transition to Workday Financials.\nThe role offers the opportunity to work across accounting teams and global entities, contribute to improvements in the financial close, and help rethink existing processes as we move from Oracle to Workday. Rather than simply maintaining current processes, this individual will have the opportunity to help build more efficient, scalable, and technology-enabled ways of working as the organization continues to grow.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5867,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Enterprise Storage Systems","Servers & Data Center Hardware"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T23:15:13Z"}],"liveness":{"score":99,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.993,"p_room":1,"age_days":4,"expected_fill_days":42,"reasons":["conf:2","urgency","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":165000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ddn-senior-accountant","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ddn-senior-accountant.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-28T06:18:59Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4380,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":620,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z"}}}