Staff Accountant
Classification: Staff Accountant
Compensation: DOE
If you're looking to build your career in accounting, there's currently a Staff Accountant position through Robert Half that you may want to check out. The company offering this terrific short-term contract / temporary opportunity is based in the Studio City, California region and provides rewards for hard work. The Staff Accountant is responsible for preparing monthly and year-end closings, journal entries, fixed asset maintenance, bank reconciliation, and general ledger reconciliation. This position will require a time commitment, since it produces Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets. You'll also have responsibility over various aspects of internal reporting during the monthly close. In addition, you will be in charge of communicating with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, playing an active role in compliance, and looking over schedules for the reporting processes.
What you get to do every day
- Carry out fixed asset ledger, depreciation, and reconciliation
- Ready complex journal entries and account reconciliations including but not limited to cash, prepaid expenses and payroll
- Commentate on a wide variety of financial data and communicate it in a useful and understandable manner
- Take part in various department-wide initiatives
- Assist in implementation, maintenance and adherence to internal controls and accounting procedures ensuring compliance with GAAP
- Complete month end close, journal entries, without supervision
- Ad-hoc tasks and special projects, as needed
- Maintain monthly payment schedules
- Play a role in the month end, quarter end and year end closing process including monthly financial close workbook preparation
- Create monthly statement analysis to be used for management reportings
- Ability to work within spreadsheets and databases
- Working knowledge of spreadsheets and databases
- Demonstrated analytical abilities, tendency to quickly connect dots and surmise logical outcomes
- Journal entries experience desired
- Bank reconciliations experience
- Proficiency in month end closings
- Mature organizational, written and verbal communication skills
- BA/BS or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics
- Ability to prioritize deals and adapt to quick changes while remaining diligent, and to thrive in a dynamic, high pressure environment
- 2+ years of recent and relevant accounting experience
- Attention to detail and demonstrated ability to follow standard procedures is a requirement
- Ability to complete multiple tasks and projects within deadlines
- Seizes opportunities to produce results without direct supervision
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