Staff Accountant Jobs

Overview

Stress Engineering Services, Inc. is the premier provider of engineered solutions and professional consulting services across a wide range of engineering disciplines. Since 1972, our clients have benefited from our special in-depth technical knowledge and proven performance in failure analysis, solid mechanics and structural design, reliability and predictive engineering, electrical engineering, IoT device development, IIoT solutions implementation, instrumentation and testing, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, floating systems, forensics, and material science. We maintain an excellent reputation within the industries we serve, with more than 80% of our current business from repeat clients or direct referrals.

Responsibilities

• Assisting with initial internal control evaluations
• Maintain/update client billing accounts
• Performing account analysis and reconciliation, including bank statements and intercompany general ledger accounts
• Identify specific client billing requirements; rate schedules to ensure clients are billed in accordance with MSA and contract
• Conduct investigations into project costs and create ad-hoc reporting.
• Client portal experience (i.e. Ariba, Coupa)
• Assist in collecting accounts receivable
• Client billing (F&O) system setup
• Respond to requests for more detail from customers.
• Reviewing general ledger accounts and preparing and adjusting journal entries
• Enter and maintain project contract values
• Must be a team player and able to interface with other personnel effectively
• Posting monthly, quarterly, and yearly accruals
• Resolve purchase order/contract issues relating to project invoices for clients
• Assist in streamlining project contracts
• Maintain accurate and timely records
• Investigate project variances and submit variance reports to management.
• Respond in a timely and professional manner to all internal and external parties
• Other related duties as assigned
• Client contract/PO setup, financial data, and maintenance
• Maintaining general ledger charts of accounts
• Work closely with project manager and accounting staff

Qualifications

Candidates must have a bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or business-related degree.

Strong technology skills are critical, particularly expertise with an ERP system (Dynamics 365 a plus). At minimum, intermediate Microsoft Excel (to include pivot tables & VLOOKUP).

Knowledge of full cycle accounting (include A/P – A/R cycles)

Staff accountant must be detailed-oriented, analytical, and organized, able to work on a variety of activities in a fast-paced environment.

Minimum 2 years of general accounting experience. Billing experience in an engineering or professional fee-based service firms a plus.