Staff Accountant
- Recruiter
- Robert Half
- Location
- Danbury, Connecticut, United States
- Salary
- Competitive salary
- Posted
- 28 Nov 2020
- Closes
- 29 Nov 2020
- Ref
- 00720-9502751848
- Job role
- Accountant
- Experience level
- Qualified accountant
Job Description
If you want to work for an innovative company, Robert Half Finance has an opportunity for you as a full-time Staff Accountant. We're looking for people who are driven by a challenging work environment with many components. In this Staff Accountant role, it will be critical for you to prepare journal entries, monthly and year-end closings, bank reconciliation, fixed asset maintenance, and general ledger reconciliation. You'll be interested in this position if you want to perform internal reporting during the monthly close, participate in compliance, interact with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, and review schedules reporting processes. This company, based in the Danbury, Connecticut area, offers a challenging and multi-faceted opportunity where effort is rewarded. Are you a detail-oriented and analytical thinker with a talent for creating Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets? You might thrive in this role.
Your responsibilities in this role
- Intercompany billings, transactions, and reconciliation
- Ad hoc reporting and performing special projects upon request
- Periodically maintain and reconcile journal entries
- Become well-versed in month end balance sheet account reconciliations
- Arrange schedules for capital lease and monthly payments
- Manage reconciliation, depreciation, and fixed asset ledgers
- Produce analyses for monthly balance sheets and income statements for reporting by management
- Assist in the month end, quarter end and year end closing process including monthly financial close workbook preparation
- Contribute to the implementation, maintenance and adherence to internal controls and accounting procedures ensuring compliance with GAAP
- Produce complex journal entries and account reconciliations which include, but are not limited to, cash, prepaid expenses, and payroll
- Partake in various department-wide initiatives
- Perform the month end close and produce journal entries under minimal supervision
- Survey and organize various financial data, reporting it in a useful and understandable manner
Requirements
- The ideal candidate will be highly-skilled with exceptional analytical, quantitative and social skills
- BA/BS or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics
- Solid understanding of Accounts Payable (AP)
- Cash reconciliations experience preferred
- Deep understanding of Excel Formulas
- Self-driven motivator who takes initiative on projects with a strong ability to understand and solve creative challenges
- Ability to work in a dynamic and changing environment
- Recent and relevant accounting experience
- Fully formed organizational, written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Great attention to detail
- Competent with spreadsheets and databases
- Spreadsheet and database capabilities
- ERP system experience
If you want to work for an innovative company, Robert Half Finance has an opportunity for you as a full-time Staff Accountant. We're looking for people who are driven by a challenging work environment with many components. In this Staff Accountant role, it will be critical for you to prepare journal entries, monthly and year-end closings, bank reconciliation, fixed asset maintenance, and general ledger reconciliation. You'll be interested in this position if you want to perform internal reporting during the monthly close, participate in compliance, interact with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, and review schedules reporting processes. This company, based in the Danbury, Connecticut area, offers a challenging and multi-faceted opportunity where effort is rewarded. Are you a detail-oriented and analytical thinker with a talent for creating Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets? You might thrive in this role.
Your responsibilities in this role
- Intercompany billings, transactions, and reconciliation
- Ad hoc reporting and performing special projects upon request
- Periodically maintain and reconcile journal entries
- Become well-versed in month end balance sheet account reconciliations
- Arrange schedules for capital lease and monthly payments
- Manage reconciliation, depreciation, and fixed asset ledgers
- Produce analyses for monthly balance sheets and income statements for reporting by management
- Assist in the month end, quarter end and year end closing process including monthly financial close workbook preparation
- Contribute to the implementation, maintenance and adherence to internal controls and accounting procedures ensuring compliance with GAAP
- Produce complex journal entries and account reconciliations which include, but are not limited to, cash, prepaid expenses, and payroll
- Partake in various department-wide initiatives
- Perform the month end close and produce journal entries under minimal supervision
- Survey and organize various financial data, reporting it in a useful and understandable manner
Requirements
- The ideal candidate will be highly-skilled with exceptional analytical, quantitative and social skills
- BA/BS or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics
- Solid understanding of Accounts Payable (AP)
- Cash reconciliations experience preferred
- Deep understanding of Excel Formulas
- Self-driven motivator who takes initiative on projects with a strong ability to understand and solve creative challenges
- Ability to work in a dynamic and changing environment
- Recent and relevant accounting experience
- Fully formed organizational, written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Great attention to detail
- Competent with spreadsheets and databases
- Spreadsheet and database capabilities
- ERP system experience