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Accountant, Accounting Examples
Accountant, Accounting Job Description
- Liaise with tax agents on tax issues and audits
- Oversee month end closing for Asia subsidiaries
- Involve in new system implementations
- Involve in Bill of Materials (BOM), WIP, Finished goods and transfer prices
- Financial and costing analysis
- Prepare financial statements in accordance with each deal’s contract and issue to management and/or venture partner as appropriate
- Analyze, develop, validate and execute variety of financial reports to communicate results, trends and issues, incorporating statistical and ration analysis other necessary management accounting review
- Calculate monthly expense accruals and prepare related journal entries
- Interpret detailed expense/employment contracts
- Facilitate and record monthly legacy stock and other cash programs
- Travel to Asia countries every quarter for new set up
- Minimum of 1 year of business experience
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with all levels of management
- Knowledge of GAAP, financial reporting
- Conduct work with high degree of independence, managing conflicting deadlines and priorities as assigned
- Three (3) or more years of progressively responsible related experience
Accountant, Accounting Job Description
- Perform monthly analytics (P&L and balance sheet flux analysis, margin analysis, working capital forecasts)
- Work closely with key Finance and HR personnel
- Interprets accounting data, analyzes reports and recommends action to
- Assist with General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Fixed Asset systems for a growing healthcare organization
- Assist with billing and revenue cycle management
- Manage timely financial reporting including monthly financial statement, management P&Ls, and weekly liquidity reports
- Budget projections and budget variance analysis
- Analyze healthcare reimbursement and provide guidance on trends
- Liaise with external auditors and lenders
- Participate actively in month-end and year-end closing activities including preparation of journal entries, gathering information, producing documentation to support transactions and resolve inquiries received from Business Units and Corporate team
- Invest One, and SAUV knowledge
- Assist in the timely preparation of client reports taxation, equalization, performance fees, funds under custody/admin
- Commission adjustments include Off cycles, Holds, manual deposit, analysis of invalid transactions
- Sox activities include random manual calculations to validate commission system results, payee reconciliation, and performing other control related tasks
- Reconciliations includes Commission Extract validation, Commission Detail Reports and Payfile Checklists
- Ad hoc reporting also includes research and analysis of discrepancies, including monthly deficits, to support business related inquiries
Accountant, Accounting Job Description
- Prepare audit schedules received from Corporate Team, always coordinated with the lead
- Working with a relatively high level of supervision, this position verifies records that are processed, corrects data job errors and prepares accounting related reports
- Run allocation models and update data tables
- Prepares and analyzes journal entries
- Assists with the preparation of general ledger account reconciliations
- Assists in reviewing for accuracy of journal entries and accounting classifications assigned to various records, as required
- Reviews posting issues and resolves errors
- Compares accounting system outputs with daily input verifying for accuracy and resolves discrepancies
- Assists with the monthly, quarterly and year end close activities as assigned by his/her supervisor
- Assists in preparation of financial and operating reports including trial balances, adjustments and closing entries
- Document current and ongoing Commission Accounting processes, policies and procedures, understand data flow and system architecture
- Utilize the TrueComp Manager application to research participants setups, payment history, hierarchies, and other commission related information
- Serve as a subject matter expert in various Commission Accounting processes, including selected upstream processes
- Work with team and provide analytical expertise and identify opportunities for improvements
- Participate and support UAT activities
- Collaborate with business groups across the pay cycle process, including Worldwide Sales Compensation, Geo Compensation and Payroll
Accountant, Accounting Job Description
- Assist in the month end close process including but not limited to preparation of journal entries and reconciliations
- Work with Capital Accounting Operation Manager on ad hoc analyses and special projects, including Capital Accounting Debt Management System (CADMS) system testing and development
- Assist in preparation of financial and operating reports including trial balances, adjustments and closing entries
- Assist in the analysis and interpretation of accounting records for use by management, as required
- Support the company’s efforts to comply with the requirements of Sarbanes Oxley
- Assist in the documentation of simple accounting projects under direct supervision
- Assist in the monthly closing and reporting activities, the quarterly and annual testing of the financial close’s controls
- Act as a business partner between the GL group and our operational departments such as Marketing, R&D, IT, HR, and Facilities to review actuals against forecast in preparation of the monthly close
- Monitor and analyze balance sheet and expense trends within business departments
- Incorporate ongoing system reporting improvements in the monthly close process
- Strong PC expertise essential including Microsoft Excel and Word
- 3-5 years of previous experience in the field of audit/assurance services and/or corporate accounting
- College Degree with accounting/finance coursework and/or major preferred 2-3 years comparable work experience
- Exceptional attention to detail, a good problem solver who is organized, flexible, self-directed and possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Exceptional ability to follow procedures and adhere / perpetuate departmental policies
- Must possess the ability to work with confidential reports and information with complete discretion
Accountant, Accounting Job Description
- Identify process improvements in the month-end close process
- Review coding of invoices and update as needed
- Review posting issues and resolves errors
- Preparing journal entries to facilities the close process
- Perform monthly depreciation actual to budget variance analysis and report results at monthly close and balance sheet meetings
- Represent Plant accounting at operational and finance department meetings
- Perform bi-weekly payroll import from ADP into Oracle projects
- Prepare all supporting documentation to properly record plant transactions for PNG within the Oracle Fixed Assets system
- Act as back up for setting up capital projects
- Prepare the annual depreciation expense budgets and forecasts
- Good oral and written communication skills and ability to use good judgment in the delivery of information get the deadlines, and problem resolutions (low and medium complexity)
- Requires a Bachelor's accounting, finance or a related degree and some experience in accounting, financial analysis, budgets, balance sheets, income statements, or other directly related experience
- Qualified accountant (2+ years of experience in position Accountant)
- Process of obtaining professional accountancy Qualification such as CPA, CIMA,ACCA, ACA is a plus
- Must be self-driven and resourceful to meet deadlines , achieve goals, by working independently work well in teams/groups
- 5+ years of relevant GL accounting experience, multi-currency accounting experience is a plus