Accountant, Senior Job Description
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Accountant, Senior Job Description
- Supervising the preparation of the 990 tax returns and ensures that tax regulations are being adhered to
- Interpreting the meaning of accounting records, reports, and statements
- Advising operating officials on accounting matters
- Participating in developing and managing program budgets with supervisor's oversight
- Performing other duties as necessary to support department and organization
- Participating in shared responsibility and collaboration with the volunteer and internal and external constituents
- Fixed asset & depreciation schedules and related journal entries
- Equipment & loan amortization schedules and related journal entries
- Account analysis and adjusting journal entries
- Reconciliation of sub ledgers to trial balance
- Analysis of location Profit & Loss
- Salesperson profit & loss statements
- Salespersons commissions calculations
- Calculation and payment of 3rd party commissions
- Calculation of vendor rebates for specific salespeople accounts
- Preparation of all support schedules for annual Financial Statement Review
Accountant, Senior Job Description
- Compile, analyze and prepare of Funds financial data and operating metrics
- Be responsible for the completion of quarterly investor questionnaires
- Be responsible for due diligence information requests from investors during fundraising
- Support marketing team with data collection and ad hoc requests
- Assist and coordinate with other departments to answer inquiries from investors
- Be responsible for investor expense allocation and tracking
- Assist with compliance and regulatory filings
- Timely and accurate completion of quarterly and annual statutory financial statements
- Variance analysis and reconciliations of various balance sheet accounts
- Maintaining and updating compliance diary for state reporting
- Quarterly and annual compliance filings
- Preparing miscellaneous monthly and quarterly journal entries
- Assisting in the preparation of quarterly and annual internal management reports, and analysis
- Responding to requests from state regulatory authorities
- Assisting preparing information for external auditors interim and annual audit reviews
- Prepare financial statements for foreign subsidiary companies
Accountant, Senior Job Description
- Produce monthly analysis of consolidated inventory adjustments, including gathering of affiliate data, analysis of variance to budget/projection and communicate to management summary of findings
- Perform Inventory Adjustment product line reporting for Actual/Projection/Budget
- Design and deliver various ad-hoc requests/projects
- Participate in the annual budgeting process, focused on development of Inventory Adjustments, Inventory and associated reserves
- Contribute in the development of strategic plan as it relates to IA and inventory
- Administrate and maintain internally generated projection tool utilized for inventory and budget preparation report key drivers of variances
- Perform monthly Excess & Obsolescence reserve analysis
- Assist Accounting Manager in the development and execution of monthly financial processes, to include month-end closing and month-, quarter- and year-end financial reporting
- Assist Accounting Manager in ensuring accurate and timely recording of stand-alone and consolidated financial results both internally and externally
- Provide information and assistance to other departments within the organization regarding the financial results
- Assist the Accounting Manager during year-end audits
- Provide additional analysis and reporting as needed
- Provide feedback to Accounting Manager in preparing staff performance appraisals
- Keep abreast, through continuing education, of changes and new technologies in the field of finance and accounting
- Practice and comply with all regulations promoting a safe and healthy workplace
- All aspects of accounting and financial reporting
Accountant, Senior Job Description
- Develop and implement procedures to streamline monthly closings and other financial activities
- Coordinating 10-K and 10-Q disclosure for all of our world-wide plans
- Developing appropriate forecasts and allocations across the various IPG entities and establish a process to implement FAS 157 for year-end disclosures
- Working closely with auditors during year-end benefit plan audits
- Working closely with Corporate Treasury and Human Resource departments on matters related to plan administration
- Working closely with Corporate External Reporting group on quarterly and year-end disclosures
- Generate all month, quarter and annual reports using report writer software (FRX) and prepare complimentary reports needed to complete reporting packages
- Oversee Project Module within Dynamics Accounting software used for reporting and cost tracking of a diverse collection of capital improvement and operations projects
- Assist with General Ledger maintenance as needed (chart of accounts maintenance, ledger entries)
- Prepare several standalone reports (bi-weekly cash flows, real estate related schedules, charitable foundation, projects)
- Assist with the compilation and reporting of annual budgets
- Assist in preparation of information required for annual tax filings
- Assisting in the preparation of tax-related schedules and projects completing sales and using tax returns on a monthly and quarterly basis
- Prepare Journal Entries (High volume)
- Prepare Account Analysis
- Perform detailed research
Accountant, Senior Job Description
- Analyze and produce improvements to processes, practices and policies
- Complete monthly account reconciliations and journal entries for certain areas of Corporate Accounting, including equity and capitalized software development
- Assists in preparing financial statements and related reports including Form 10-Q, Form 10-K, earnings releases, press releases, 8-K’s, and proxy filings and assists in providing support for the external audit of these documents
- Completes selected footnotes and financial statement disclosures as assigned
- Ensures that all disclosures are properly supported and have been reviewed in accordance with company policies, including SOX
- Assists in preparing the Company’s 401K benefit plan financial statements and assists in the external audit of these financial statements
- Assists in review of XBRL documentation to ensure elements selected are appropriate
- Assists in researching new accounting pronouncements for inclusion in various accounting write-ups
- Participates in various special accounting projects, including documenting or enhancing accounting policies, presentation preparation, etc
- Process month-end journal entries
- Collaborate with the Finance department on month-end variance analysis for Actuals vs
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet extremely tight deadlines
- Willing to provide assistance to colleagues regardless of whether it has to do with the cost centers they oversee
- Four plus years related work experience
- MS Office knowledge required (Excel, Access, Word)
- AS400 and Lawson experience beneficial/preferred