Why would I want this job?

 Our client s currently looking for a motivated, proactive, and energetic individual to join the company’s Accounting team. Reporting to the Sr. Manager or Manager, Accounting Operations, the Sr. Staff Accountant, Accounting Operations will play a critical role supporting the Accounting team as it scales and grows. Specifically, this role will focus on accounting for operational areas of the Company, such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, T&E, cash, and payroll.  This is an important role, partnering with the finance and operational teams, as we continue to grow domestically and internationally.

What would I be doing?

As the Sr. Staff Accountant, you will be joining our Finance team during a pivotal time for the company as we are actively building out the team and financial systems to support our domestic growth and international expansion. You will play a vital role in supporting short-term and long-term strategies to achieve continuous improvement and efficiencies in the optimization and implementation of processes related to accounting operations. Our ideal candidate will have several years of basic accounting experience, financial systems implementations and be comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced, global, multi-state and multi-entity environment.

 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Perform and support monthly close and year end close process duties.
  • Preparation, maintenance and booking of journal entries, general ledger accounts and transactions.
  • Preparation of accounting estimate accrual journal entries.
  • Perform monthly account reconciliations as assigned to analyze, review, research and resolve discrepancies.
  • Provide detailed analyses and explanations of all transactions being recorded.
  • Maintain compliance with local, state and federal reporting requirements.
  • Identify, develop, implement and maintain systems, policies and procedures to promote appropriate internal controls, best practices and efficient and cost-effective processes.
  • Assist staff, management and internal/external partners with issues resolution.
  • Perform SOX controls and reconciliations related to accounting operations areas.
  • Support internal and external auditors on audit deliverables.
  • Provide first level support to finance team members of system functionality use.
  • Effectively communicate with internal stakeholders and customers.
  • Identify, recommend, and champion process improvements to the current processes and systems within the finance department by performing the tasks first-hand to gain a thorough understanding of the topic and content.
  • Build positive relationships to ensure successful collaborations to be able to respond to internal questions, assist with the review of transactions as needed, and handle ad-hoc requests.
  • Stay current on all financial system updates related to accounts receivable, accounts payable, cash receipts, or payroll by working closely with IT system owners.
  • Coach, mentor and provide financial system expertise to team members to optimize operational excellence and build a deeper bench of talent.
  • Other duties as assigned.

 

What would make me qualified?

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance or similar with 5 years of accounting experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Active CPA required.
  • Experience working in a Big 4 accounting firm required (minimum of 2 years)
  • Attention to detail, professional awareness, and sense of urgency for questions; be able to spot errors or exceptions quickly.
  • Experience working in a Financial ERP system required. Oracle Fusion is preferred.
  • Strong experience with Microsoft Office products.
  • Excellent communicator and collaborator
  • Self-Starter: Ability to work in a fast-paced, highly engaged startup environment.