Senior Accountant
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Job overview
Vanguard seeks an experienced accountant to own corporate accounting activities, including month-end close, financial reporting, controls, and audit support. The role provides visibility to management and opportunities to address complex accounting issues, improve processes, and coach others. Candidates need at least three years of related business experience; financial accounting experience, a finance or accounting degree, CPA, and experience with Oracle, CoPilot, or AI are preferred.
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Full job description
Senior Accountant
locations
Malvern, PA
time type
Full time
posted on
job requisition id
183883
Vanguard is seeking an experienced accountant to take end-to-end ownership of key corporate accounting activities, including month-end close, financial reporting, controls, and audit support. The role offers strong visibility to management while providing opportunities to solve complex accounting issues, improve processes, and coach others.
Responsibilities:
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Executes all corporate accounting close activities for assigned functional areas. Prepares monthly general ledger account reconciliations and reviews, approves, and posts journal entries. Reviews team's work for accuracy and compliance.
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Responsible for processes around analysis of domestic and international business operations and obligations to ensure accurate recording of financial position. Assists in the preparation and communication of monthly financial results to management.
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Identifies issues independently. Leads efforts to research issues, develop recommendations, resolve complex issues, and implement changes.
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Designs, recommends, and implements internal control procedures that ensure proper recording and reporting of financial position and prevent significant errors in accounting records.
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Prepares and produces monthly reports and returns required by the senior management and regulators. Support external auditors during annual audit.
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Coaches and provides training to temporary administrators to ensure timely and accurate completion of tasks.
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Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
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Qualifications:
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Minimum of three years’ related business experience. Financial accounting experience preferred.
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Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Finance or Accounting degree preferred.
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CPA preferred.
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Oracle, CoPilot, AI experience preferred.
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
About Us
Vanguard, one of the world's leading investment management companies, serves individual investors, institutions, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and financial professionals. We have a diverse and talented crew with a culture that promotes teamwork, along with an unwavering focus on serving our clients' best interests.
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How this job compares
Set against the 4,974 open Accounting jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Pennsylvania median$91–149K/yr89 salary ranges
- US median$25–30/hr432 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 246 open Accounting jobs in Pennsylvania and 4,974 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Pennsylvania
- Robert Half28 open
- Deloitte14 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Accounting postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,764 postings).
- Education
- 2,508 of the 4,974 open Accounting jobs (50%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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