Staff Accountant Jobs

Job Functions, Unique Duties And Responsibilities

PURPOSE

The Staff Accountant will be responsible for helping the Senior Accountant and Accounting Manager with essential day to day duties involving the accurate and timely accounting of financial transactions. This person will need to work under tight deadlines while maintaining composure. Good communication skills is a must to keep supervisor informed of issues or possible delays in meeting deadlines. This position involves gathering information and audit requests during year end audits and quarterly reviews. The Junior Accountant will be required to reconcile balance sheet accounts, including cash, and perform analysis of the accounts and propose adjustments as needed to comply with accounting standards and financial reporting requirements. The position requires strong interpersonal communication skills both written and verbal. The Junior Accountant will report to the Senior Accountant.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Assist with monthly recurring adjustments including, but not limited to, depreciation expense, goodwill amortization, bonus accruals, etc.
• Assist the external audit team with requests and preparation of audit schedules
• Participate in the implementation of new procedures and features to enhance the workflow of the department.
• Support budget and forecasting activities.
• Respond to inquiries from the Accounting Manager or Senior Accountant regarding financial results, special reporting requests, and projects.
• Obtain and maintain a thorough understanding of the financial reporting and general ledger structure.
• Assist Accounting Manager/Senior Accountant in preparing financial reporting package and periodic financial information for the local bookkeeper in Italy for the preparation of the statutory financials of the Company’s Italian affiliate
• Reconcile Inter-company transactions and generate invoices as necessary. Propose/record any missing intercompany transactions.
• Work with the Controller/Accounting Manager/Senior Accountant to ensure a clean and timely year-end audit.
• Advise staff regarding the handling of non-routine reporting transactions.
• Provide training to new and existing staff as needed.
• Support Accounting Manager/Senior Accountant with special projects and workflow process improvements.
• Assist in the preparation of the monthly financial review package consisting of, but not limited to, financial statements, variance analysis, purchases, AP and AR aging etc.
• Assist with monthly and quarterly general ledger account reconciliations to ensure accurate reporting, ledger maintenance and propose adjustments as necessary
• Assist with achieving accurate and timely reporting of all monthly financial information.
• Assist with and/or perform monthly Bank Reconciliations to ensure they are completed in an accurate and timely manner.
• Assist with the expense coding and accounting treatment of non-PO invoices to ensure they are coded to the correct ledger accounts
• Assist with achieving accurate and timely monthly, quarterly and year end close, in accordance with US GAAP.

Minimum Requirements

• Must be PC proficient and able to thrive in a fast -pace setting. Experience with enterprise accounting software such as Epicor a plus. Must have strong experience with Microsoft Excel, Outlook and Word.
• 3+ years experience in an Accounting role
• Ability to multi-task, work under pressure and meet deadlines required.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Public accounting experience a plus
• Technical Skills and Prior Experience
• BA/BS in Business with an emphasis in Accounting
• The marginal functions of this position have not been included. This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties to be performed. An employee will be required to follow any other job-related duties required by the manager.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Prior supervisory experience in the financial reporting/general ledger area
• Strong interpersonal and customer service skills required.

Other

Regular attendance in conformance with the standards, which may be established from time to time, is essential to the successful performance of this position. Employees with irregular attendance will be subject to disciplinary action up to, and including, termination of employment.

BEHAVIORAL COMPENTENCIES

• Builds trust – Interacts with others in a way that gives them confidence in one's intentions and those of the organization.
• Influencing others and facilitating decisions – Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and communication methods to gain acceptance of products, service, or ideas from prospects and guests (customers).
• Collaboration and partnering – Identifies opportunities and takes action to build relationships between individuals, teams, departments, units, or organizations to help achieve business goals.
• Customer focused – Make service excellence a primary focus of one's actions; effectively meets service excellence; develops and sustains positive and productive service excellence; and takes responsibility for service excellence and loyalty.

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