Global Staff Accountant

Goodway Group•New York, NY

7h•Remote

About The Position

The Staff Accountant supports accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting for the organization. This role owns assigned general ledger accounts from transaction processing through reconciliation and analysis, supports monthly close activities, and partners with internal teams to ensure proper accounting treatment in a fast-paced advertising agency environment. The Staff Accountant serves as the primary accounting resource for payroll-related transactions, incentive compensation accounting, treasury activities, and selected compliance functions. This role will lead the implementation of a scalable commission and incentive management solution and support ongoing process improvements that increase automation, accuracy, and efficiency across Finance.

Requirements

A minimum of two years of accounting experience.
High level of ethics and character with "when no one’s looking" integrity.
Self-starter.
Extremely detail-oriented and able to multitask to meet deadlines.
Strong analytical, mathematical, and problem-solving skills.
Aptitude and flexibility to understand the informational requirements of the business as it changes.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Proficiency with MS Office suite, especially Excel (pivot tables and vlookups) and PowerPoint.
Willingness to learn in order to grow with the organization.
Team player.

Nice To Haves

Experience with NetSuite and Concur preferred.

Responsibilities

Own or support recurring close activities, including preparing routine journal entries, supporting accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, and expense allocations.
Reconcile balance sheet accounts and investigate and resolve reconciling items.
Maintain close checklists and supporting documentation, ensuring tasks are completed accurately and on schedule.
Reconcile cash and bank accounts, prepaids, accrued expenses, fixed assets, corporate credit cards, intercompany accounts (if applicable), and other assigned balance sheet accounts.
Review coding accuracy and support vendor payment workflows.
Reconcile AP-related accounts and review employee expense submissions for policy compliance.
Help resolve vendor or internal questions.
Prepare schedules for monthly financial statements and provide variance explanations for assigned accounts.
Support audit requests and maintain supporting documentation.
Help ensure reporting packages are complete and accurate.
Maintain SOPs and process documentation.
Identify process gaps or inconsistencies.
Support system clean-up and data validation.
Create repeatable workflows for recurring accounting tasks.
Backup for processing semi-monthly payroll.
Manage monthly accruals related to payroll.
Enter specific journal entries.
Register new employee locations with the local, state, and federal entities.
Manage 401k plan support.