Staff Accountant
About The Position
This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career accountant to build a strong foundation in a hands-on finance environment. The Staff Accountant will support the day-to-day accounting operations of the company and help ensure an accurate and timely month-end close. This role offers broad exposure to general accounting, reconciliations, financial reporting support, audit support, and selected manufacturing-related accounting activities. The right candidate will be organized, detail-oriented, eager to learn, and interested in growing into a broader accounting role over time. This role offers the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of corporate accounting in a collaborative environment and take on broader responsibility over time as skills and experience develop.
Requirements
- Strong Excel skills and comfort working with data and reconciliations are important.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications is required.
- Ability to identify issues, gather the relevant facts, analyze the underlying activity, and reach sound conclusions is required.
- Must be able to exercise judgment within established policies and procedures, raise issues when needed, and follow through to resolution.
- Ability to communicate clearly and professionally, both in writing and verbally, is required.
- Must be able to prepare routine reports and correspondence and work effectively with various levels of staff and management across the organization.
- Will use a computer keyboard, monitor, and mouse regularly.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance preferred.
- Internship experience, public accounting experience, or up to two years of relevant accounting experience is helpful but not required.
- Exposure to month-end close, reconciliations, or manufacturing environments is a plus.
- Experience with pivot tables, lookups, or ERP systems is helpful, but the ability and willingness to learn quickly is just as important.
Responsibilities
- Assist with the preparation of recurring and non-recurring journal entries with appropriate supporting documentation
- Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations, investigate reconciling items, and work with the broader team to resolve issues on a timely basis
- Maintain account analyses and supporting schedules for assigned accounts
- Support monthly, quarterly, and year-end close activities and gain exposure to the company’s overall financial reporting process
- Reconcile bank accounts and corporate credit card accounts monthly
- Assist with sales and tax filings and related reconciliations
- Prepare and reconcile intercompany accounts and assist with settlement of intercompany balances
- Support fixed asset accounting, including capital additions, disposals, and depreciation schedules
- Assist with inventory, cost of goods sold, and other manufacturing-related account reconciliations as needed
- Support internal and external audit requests by preparing schedules and maintaining organized supporting documentation
- Partner with other departments to research transaction discrepancies and build an understanding of how operational activity flows through the financial statements
- Look for opportunities to improve accuracy, organization, and efficiency in assigned processes
- Assist with special projects and other ad hoc assignments as needed
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
