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Pre-screened Senior Accountants who own reconciliations, accruals, and audit prep, matched to your ERP and close calendar in about 3 days.
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When to hire a Fractional Senior Accountant
Bring in a Senior Accountant when your close slips, reconciliations pile up, or your finance lead is stuck doing entries instead of analysis.
Your close takes three weeks
Management gets financials so late that decisions are already made before the numbers arrive.
Unreconciled balance sheet accounts
Cash, prepaid, accrued liabilities, and intercompany balances haven't tied out in months and nobody trusts the totals.
An audit or due diligence is coming
Auditors or investors want PBC schedules, fixed asset rollforwards, and revenue support you don't have ready.
Your controller is doing staff work
Your controller or CFO is booking accruals and chasing bank feeds instead of building forecasts and budgets.
Revenue recognition is getting complicated
Multi-element contracts, deferred revenue, or subscription billing have outgrown spreadsheet tracking under ASC 606.
A key accountant just left
The person who knew the close checklist is gone, and the next deadline is already on the calendar.
The benefits of hiring a Fractional Senior Accountant
A fractional Senior Accountant takes over your close, balance sheet reconciliations, and audit schedules, so your controller or CFO stops doing journal entries at midnight.
Close the books without adding headcount
Get senior-level accruals, revenue recognition, and reconciliation work on a monthly retainer instead of a full-time salary, benefits, and payroll load.
Cover this month's close, not next quarter's
We match you with pre-screened Senior Accountants in about 3 days, so the person is in your ERP before the next close deadline instead of after a months-long search.
Hand off GAAP accruals to a proven operator
Every candidate has run closes in systems like NetSuite, QuickBooks Online, Sage Intacct, or Xero and has prepared PBC lists for outside auditors.
How to hire a Fractional Senior Accountant
No more juggling job boards and sorting through pools of unqualified applicants. Hiring a Fractional Senior Accountant is easy with Go Fractional.
Intro Call
Answer a few quick questions, then book a free 30-minute intro call with our team to review your goals, needs, and team dynamics.
Meet Experts
Our AI finds Fractional Senior Accountant candidates whose past clients and projects match your brief, which you won’t find on LinkedIn. A dedicated executive recruiter verifies each one’s experience, fit, and genuine interest, and you meet the ones who fit in about 3 days.
Start Work
Book time with candidates right from your shortlist, choose your operator, and sign a simple month-to-month agreement. We move as fast as you do.
Engagements that fit how you work
Every Go Fractional engagement is structured for senior leadership without full-time overhead. Start fractional, scale up, or convert to full-time when you’re ready.
Fractional Senior Accountant
- Senior leadership on a part-time schedule
- Monthly retainer, no recruiting fees
- Scale hours up or down as needs change
Contract-to-Hire
Trial a Fractional Senior Accountant on a fractional engagement before converting them to a full-time hire.
- Keep the expert's learnings or convert to full-time
- Try the fit before you commit, no hiring risk
- Faster speed to market, conserving time and resources
Interim Senior Accountant
Full-time coverage for a defined stretch: a leadership gap, a transition, or a critical project.
Fractional Senior Accountant rates average $107/hr across our live benchmarks. Pricing scales with hours and scope.
Senior Accountant Hourly RatesFractional vs full-time vs agency
Three ways to get Senior Accountant leadership, and where each one wins.
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| Factor | Fractional Senior Accountant | Full-time Senior Accountant | Accounting Firm / Outsourced Agency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to hire | ~3 days | 2-4 months | 2-6 weeks onboarding |
| Engagement | Monthly retainer, scoped SOW | Salary + benefits + bonus | Hourly billing or fixed-fee package |
| Who does the work | One named senior operator in your books | One employee, after ramp-up | Rotating staff, often junior associates |
| Knowledge of your business | Builds context on your chart of accounts and close calendar | Deep, once fully ramped | Limited, spread across many clients |
| Flexibility | Scale up for audit season, down after | Fixed cost year-round | Scope changes trigger new pricing |
| Best for | Owning close, reconciliations, and audit prep without a full-time seat | High transaction volume needing daily coverage | Tax filings and compliance-only work |
We’ve helped hundreds of organizations Go Fractional
Twelve years: the average experience across a network of handpicked executives ready to make an impact on day one.
“It was literally three days after he started with us fractionally, our CEO was calling me and asking if we could get a full-time offer out.”
“It's a can't-lose scenario. You either get the learnings from the subject matter expert, or you get the full-time capability. It provided a ton of flexibility, much faster speed to market, and conservation of time and resources.”
“Having someone senior from day one as a founder means you're actually hiring yourself out of a job, not transferring that amount of work to essentially management of someone junior, which can only be as often just as much work or only slightly less work.”
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