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Staff / Senior Accountant Job Description
- Providing ad hoc analysis to management as necessary
- Month and year-end closing process
- Compiles and analyzes financial information to prepare journal entries and document business transactions
- Ensure all deadlines are met including regulatory and internal reporting
- Manage the Company’s Project Accounting process and the associated accounting functions
- Manage the month-end accounting close process, including journal entry preparation and general ledger/trial balance reconciliation
- Maintain various accounting schedules, including Fixed Assets and their associated depreciation schedules, prepaid expense schedules, and accrued expense schedules
- Assist the Controller in the preparation of the monthly financial reporting package
- Track spending for various cost centers, including T & E, UK VAT and custom project spend
- Perform budget v
- Driven to meet deadlines while not sacrificing quality
- Five plus years of experience in Accounting and/or Inventory Control within a wholesale environment or equivalent education
- Minimum of 3 years of experience, including at least 2 years of public accounting (Required)
- Attention to detail, organized, ability to follow directions
- Be a part of a major organization poised for growth, which has a track record of success and whose brand in the market is outstanding
- Minimum of 3 years of full cycle accounting
Staff / Senior Accountant Job Description
- Assist in gathering information from individual business units to include in the Annual and Quarterly Reports
- Managing the consolidated commitments and contingencies database
- Assisting in the valuation and expense recognition of stock-based compensation
- Providing direct support on various special projects (i.e., analytical review, quarterly accounting updates)
- Assisting in the documentation and testing of internal controls in accordance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Providing support to other groups in the Corporate Finance Department on an as-needed basis
- Ensure all transactions are properly recorded on G/L system
- Work with Senior Management on customer payment delays AR aging
- Audits monthly profit center statements by comparing actual account details to the budgeted costs
- Preparation of the consolidated financial reports on a quarterly basis
- Ideal candidate will have real estate, property management or construction industry experience
- Excellent interpersonal skills, organizational ability and a self-starter
- Ability to specify programming requirements
- CPA preferred or working towards completion
- Two to Four years accounting experience
- Hospitality or multi-unit experience a plus
Staff / Senior Accountant Job Description
- Perform investment reconciliation
- Assist in preparation of monthly financial reports
- Manage corporate card program
- Prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual cash flow reports
- Assist in quarterly board preparation
- Support Controller in preparation of the financial, A-133 audit (if required), and pension audits
- Perform other accounting, financial or administrative tasks as may be required from time to time by management
- Perform daily cash management and reporting
- Process the monthly payroll and benefits for both companies into ERP
- Update and analyze other AR, prepaids, fixed assets, intangibles, deferred costs, and misc
- Public accounting experience with big 4 or national accounting firm
- Working knowledge of accounting procedures, accounting systems and SOX process
- CPA or in progress to become a CPA
- Strong accounting reporting software knowledge, preferably J.D
- Experience with Accounting research and guidance
- 2-3 years' work experience as a staff accountant
Staff / Senior Accountant Job Description
- Assist with the preparation of monthly financial statements and financial reporting package to senior management
- Review monthly bank reconciliations
- Maintain and oversee the fixed asset area consisting of 2 clerks
- Compile and analyze financial information of assigned general ledger accounts
- Reconcile and maintain all assigned sub systems to the general ledger
- Assist in preparation of internal and external periodic financial analyses, reports and financial statement information
- Assist FP&A department in preparation and analysis of designated expense budgets, capital budgets, tactical and strategic plans
- Perform check printing responsibilities as needed
- Provide back-up assistance for selected tasks within the financial accounting team
- Completes month end close and full GL Cycle
- At least five or more years of accounting experience for a Senior level is required
- Job cost and construction industry experience is ideal, but not required
- Must be able to prioritize multiple projects and meet their deadlines
- Experience with ERP accounting systems, such as Oracle
- Minimum of 4 years of accounting work experience
- Self-starter with a successful record of working independently working closely with other team member
Staff / Senior Accountant Job Description
- Responsible for managing a client load of 50-100 small business clients in QuickBooks
- Responsible for the preparation of business and personal taxes for your client base
- Preparation of payroll tax using QuickBooks
- Reviewing journal entries and ensuring accuracy of general ledger
- Oversight of the division’s multi-million dollar annual operating budget
- Responsibility of maintenance of internal controls
- Review, analysis and presentation to management team of various financial and budgetary reports on an on-going basis
- Serve as main point of contact for auditors in annual audit process
- Cross-train with Director of Accounting on all duties/responsibilities within accounting function
- Manage specific G/L accounts including A/R, inventory, fixed assets, Facilitate month-end close procedures including preparation of JE’s in the G/L
- Person will eventually step into a supervisor role
- Highly proficient with Microsoft software
- CPA, MBA or advanced degree in Accounting or Finance preferred
- Experience with publicly traded companies or SOX a plus
- Large ERP systems experience
- 3+ years accounting or relevant experience