Senior Accountant
Classification: Sr. Accountant
Compensation: DOE
Robert Half has an opening for an experienced, driven Senior Accountant to provide leadership and know-how to a growing team. This is a permanent opportunity in the NAPERVILLE, Illinois area. As a Senior Accountant, you will be responsible for producing financial statement preparation and consolidation, account analysis and reconciliations, cash flow analysis, budgets and forecasting, audit preparation, and internal control maintenance and regulatory reporting. This position offers you great long-term potential and a strong compensation and benefits package. We are seeking an individual with strong analytical skills that excels working in a challenging and fast-paced work environment while contributing to the continued success of the firm.
Responsibilities
- Engage in various department-wide initiatives
- Provide assistance in coordinating quarterly reviews and testing with internal and external
- Coordinate Ad-hoc projects as necessary
- When working with business partners, ensure compliance with corporate accounting policies, procedures and controls. Additionally, be able to provide support on special requests
- Prepare financial analysis on trends, performance metrics, benchmarks, etc.
- Adherence to continuously improve the automation of the accounting and reporting process
- Assemble monthly consolidated P& L and Balance Sheet flux analysis for management reporting
- Produce error-free monthly accounting close procedures and deliverables such as journal entries, reconciliations, reports in compliance with GAAP
- Present Balance Sheet account reconciliations
- 3+ years of overall general accounting experience, ideally with Big 4 experience
- Able to manage time well
- Be detailed, flexible, and organized
- Excellent verbal, written, and social skills
- Current and relevant ERP system experience
- Exemplary analytical, quantitative and social skills
- Self-starter, ability to identify issues and resolve problems
- BA/BS in Accounting, CPA credentials are preferred
- Ability to prioritize deals and adapt to quick changes while remaining diligent, and to thrive in a dynamic, high pressure environment
- Prior work done in public accounting is desired
- Foundational knowledge in US GAAP
- Expertise in journal entries
- Strong familiarity with general ledger
- Comprehensive knowledge of budgeting
- Ability to handle multiple projects within strict deadlines
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