Senior Accountant I, Corporate Accounting

Robert Half • San Ramon, CA

1d • $75,000 - $112,000

About The Position

Robert Half is seeking a Senior Accountant I for its Corporate Accounting team to support its evolving global business. This role partners with teams across North America, EMEA, and APAC to support close and reporting activities, process improvement initiatives, and other key finance projects. The ideal candidate is analytical, collaborative, and motivated to continuously improve processes and controls.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
• 7+ years of accounting experience, including financial analysis and systems experience
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and internal controls.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with ERP systems.
• Continuous improvement mindset with an interest in process optimization and automation.
• Ability to work effectively across teams and geographies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Public accounting experience a plus.
• CPA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Supports operations of the accounting teams, maintaining current understanding of the evolving business models, policies and adhering to effective internal controls, inclusive of global financial systems, procedures, and processes.
• Demonstrates effective collaboration across organization to best serve business needs and exceed expectations; actively supports key decisions and promote a spirit of teamwork to establish the commitment to the company.
• Identifies process improvements opportunities, including creation of standard and ad-hoc reports, tools, and dashboards.
• Promotes a culture in which processes balance innovation and financial accountability.
• Prepares manual journal entries related to accruals, prepaids, reserves, as needed, to ensure that the month end close activities are in accordance with GAAP.
• Monitors accounting entries created during the month to ensure that sub-ledger accounting is created as expected.
• Analyzes monthly financial results and provide variance, trend explanations, and analytical write up to senior management and business.
• Readily identifies data anomalies and exceptions as observed in summarized financial data and ability to understand reasons and impacts of these data anomalies, exceptions, and changes to explain issues to leadership.
• Participates in timely completion of monthly, quarterly, and annual close process tasks including ensuring that all routine journal entries are processed and responding to information requests.
• Supports the annual audit process and provides data, financial information, or analysis in response to ad hoc requests.
• Collaborates with International teams to ensure consistent practical application of accounting policy across the enterprise.
• Supports assurance of accurate data integrity for documentation supporting finance close activities.
• Prepares monthly reconciliation of balance sheet accounts between sub-leger and general ledger with moderate complexity.
• Through written and oral communications with various department staff who initiated the transactions, implement follow-up procedures to clean up reconciling items and document the procedures.
• Documents procedures and keep them up to date to reflect any changes as they arise.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement in the reconciliation/reporting procedure.

Benefits

• group health insurance benefits (medical, vision, dental)
• FSA and HSA healthcare accounts
• life and accident insurance
• adoption and fertility assistance
• paid parental leave of up to 6 weeks
• short/long term disability
• paid time off for vacation, personal needs, and sick time
• up to 11 paid holidays per calendar year
• 401(k) savings and investment plan or deferred compensation plan (if eligible), with an employer match of 100% on the first 3% of your contributions for eligible employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior