Senior Accountant

As a leader in the private aviation industry, our organization provides customized aircraft management, charter, and aviation services to a clientele across the United States. We are seeking a Senior Accountant who will play a critical role in supporting the company's continued growth through accurate financial management, process optimization, and strategic business support. This position offers the opportunity to work closely with leadership in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment where innovation, service excellence, and operational integrity are at the core of everything we do

Qualifications:

3+ years of experience as a Sr. Accountant

Must have previous experience producing P&L statements

Ability to process expenses, receipts, credit card transactions

Experience with month-end close duties

QuickBooks Online experience nice to have

Job Description:

The Senior Accountant plays a key role in delivering accurate and timely financial reporting for a specialized aviation organization. This position focuses on month-end close, owner reporting, aviation-related tax filings, and detailed profitability analysis at the aircraft and trip level. The role offers broad exposure beyond traditional general ledger responsibilities, including process automation, system enhancements, and direct collaboration with operational and leadership teams in a highly regulated, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities include:

• Prepare and distribute monthly owner statements, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and timely delivery.
• Prepare journal entries and accruals, and perform account reconciliations to maintain accurate financial records.
• Support and execute month-end close activities, including preparation of monthly financial reporting packages and specialty reports under tight deadlines.
• Generate bi-monthly charter trip profitability reports and develop aircraft-specific, tail-specific, and trip-specific profit and loss reporting.
• Prepare aviation-related federal and state tax filings, including specialty tax filings relevant to the aviation and charter industry.
• Review and approve invoices, ensuring proper coding, allocation, and alignment with general ledger accounts.
• Manage credit card reconciliation processes, including receipt tracking and resolution of discrepancies.
• Analyze large datasets in Excel to support reporting, profitability analysis, and variance investigation.
• Maintain accurate general ledger activity and support internal controls to ensure audit readiness and compliance with GAAP.
• Work closely with pilots, charter coordinators, maintenance teams, and leadership to provide clear financial data, reporting, and insights.
• Assist with accounting system enhancements, ERP improvements, and reporting automation to modernize accounting operations.
• Support audit activities and internal control initiatives, providing documentation and explanations as needed.
• Identify opportunities to streamline, document, and automate accounting processes to improve efficiency and accuracy.
• Ensure accounting practices align with FAA-regulated and aviation industry requirements, in coordination with operational teams.

This is a Permanent position based out of Carlsbad, CA.

The pay range for this position is $75000.00 - $95000.00/yr.

Competitive benefits package including health benefits, 401(k) match, and PTO

This is a fully onsite position in Carlsbad,CA.

This position is anticipated to close on Aug 20, 2026.

About Aston Carter

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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