Associate Accountant Job Description
Associate accountant
provides professional accounting services in the interpretation and application of accounting principles, policies and procedures in support of Audit Readiness.
Associate Accountant Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Utilize knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles, company accounting policies and professional judgment while defining, preparing, reviewing and analyzing various monthly schedules supporting the balance sheet and income statement
Responsible for applying accounting principles and procedures to analyze financial information, prepare accurate and timely financial reports and statements and ensure appropriate accounting control procedures
Analyzes and performs maintenance to the General Ledger system on a routine basis such as posting entries, clearing reject items
Plan, organize and maintain the accuracy of all financial information recorded and reported
Maintain effective communication with other departments as a basis for assuring complete and accurate financial information and appropriate documentation
Prepare daily, monthly and quarterly journal entries
Prepare bank reconciliations, analyze reconciling items and propose corrections to the general ledger as necessary
Review general ledger coding to ensure accuracy for both accounts payable and wire transfers
Serve as contact for inquiries, problems, and exceptions related to the review of account reconciliations
Prepare analyses and ad hoc requests for management
Associate Accountant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Associate Accountant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPA, CA, NACM, APS
Education for Associate Accountant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the associate accountant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Accounting, Finance, Communication, Bookkeeping, Business, Education, Human Relations, Accounting and Financial Management, Management, Business/Administration
Skills for Associate Accountant
Desired skills for associate accountant include:
Excel
Accounting principles
Prior related experience
Accounting and securities processing procedures
Usually acquired through accounting/finance coursework
SAP
Word
Excel and Outlook
Microsoft Office
To review and audit reports
Desired experience for associate accountant includes:
Perform month-end expense variance review and analysis
Provide explanations for monthly, quarterly and annual analytical reviews for the corporate business units balance sheet and results of operations
Prepare analyses and supporting schedules for parent company quarterly and annual reporting requirements
Prepare quarterly and annual consolidated and consolidating financial statements and related footnotes
Provide support schedules used in budgeting, debt covenant compliance, and other analyses as needed
Perform accrual analysis and take an active part in efforts to ensure proper accruals for unrecorded liabilities
Associate Accountant Examples
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Associate Accountant Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for an associate accountant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for associate accountant
- Prepare financial analyses and other financial reports
- Lead departmental improvement activities, initiate projects, identify and resolve needs
- Develop and maintain portion of department files
- Assist in preparing and coordinating department forecasts and budgets
- Quarterly consolidation process
- Working closely with local finance and local consolidation teams worldwide to work through issues and problems
- Data input, processing, and output
- Supporting the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts
- Conduct administrative tasks in support of maintaining the company's books
- Oversees all travel-related expenses and serves as primary liaison with campus travel office and Sun Devil Athletics (SDA) travel agency
Qualifications for associate accountant
- Studying towards a professional ACA, ACCA, CIMA qualification
- Must be highly self-motivated, well-organized, and oriented toward generating results
- CPA preferred, Bachelors in Accounting or related, 1-4 years of experience in large national, or regional CPA firm and experience performing accounting/audit for a service or retail or distribution industry
- Audits travel expenditures and claims
- Reviews and approves travel authorization requests
- Records and monitors travel expense reimbursements
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Our company is looking for an associate accountant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for associate accountant
- Analyze information by developing and reviewing spreadsheet reports
- Assists in the preparation of general ledger entries by maintaining records and files
- Work collaboratively with other departments within the company to ensure accuracy of the supporting data used to record transactions to the ledger
- Perform monthly account reconciliations and work with various departments to clear open reconciling items
- Contribute to the compilation of audit requests
- Research data requests and provide supporting details on account balances
- Recommend systems and business process changes/improvements to support the processing o accurate financial data
- Prepare annual state property tax reports
- Process and monitor accounts payable such as HOA payments, eviction fees, dispute and settlement letters, and other misc
- Confirms that proposed obligations or expenditures for services, facilities supplies and equipment expenses, those pertaining to personnel, are in accordance with the Financial Regulations and Rules of the UN, relevant appropriations and staffing tables and corresponding approved allotments
Qualifications for associate accountant
- Minimum one (1) year of directly related work experience
- Associate’s degree in a field such as accounting, business, finance, or other related field
- Minimum of One (1) years directly related work experience
- Must be able to work independently with technical competence in accounting/finance
- Minimum of two (2) years experience in accounting, bookkeeping or payroll
- Experience with 10-key calculator and other standard office machines
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Our company is looking to fill the role of associate accountant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for associate accountant
- Share knowledge and ensure consistency with others in the department
- Determine if funds are available for expenditures or requisitions and post to proper accounts
- Understand SLA requirements
- Process petty cash reimbursements, accept and record payments for shipping, copies
- Recommends ways to improve processes and standards
- Prepares and records various journal entries by analyzing data, making adjustments as needed, and preparing and distributing reconciliations and reports
- Assists in preparation of schedules for quarterly and annual audits
- Performs cash and payroll reconciliation among other duties
- Prepare national returns (VAT, EC Sales, Intrastats for review and filing)
- Participate in cycle counts and physical inventories as required
Qualifications for associate accountant
- Associate's degree in accounting or finance desired
- 1 - 2 years accounting experience preferred but not required
- 1+ year of Related experience in accounting preferred
- Three years general accounting experience or Associates degree in business or accounting desired
- Self motivated with ability to perform, with minimal direct supervision, the required and expected duties
- Working knowledge of Lawson preferred
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of associate accountant. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for associate accountant
- Examines general ledger accounts for accuracy and compliance
- Reconciles reports and general ledger accounts on file and reports inconsistencies
- Cost Reports
- Intercompany AR
- Research or analyze variances as compared to budget and last year
- Balancing and verifying the accuracy of monthly allocations for assigned areas
- Analyze financial statement items
- Serve as first point of contact for business partners
- Prepare working papers for audit support
- Attend to ad-hoc requests
Qualifications for associate accountant
- Basic knowledge of accounting functions and related concepts
- Minimum two (2) years of directly related accounting experience
- Ability to work limited overtime and some weekends as needed
- Familiarity with understanding of Government contracting requirements such as Forward Pricing Proposal, Disclosure Statement, FAR, CAS
- Intermediate knowledge of computer software and hardware
- Or Bachelor's in Accounting and 2 years’ experience in tax and/or accounting
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Associate Accountant Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for an associate accountant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for associate accountant
- Utilizes Excel and other MS Office applications daily
- Review reports, fund or account statements and bank statements
- Record revenues, disbursements, expenses or other transactions by posting to records or ledgers
- Issue approved credit and debit memos to customers
- Prepare general ledger account reconciliations for customer and intercompany AR accounts
- Review billing exception reports and make corrections as required
- Distributor commissions
- Sales tax credits
- Incorrect shipping credits
- Credit and re-bill for account managers
Qualifications for associate accountant
- Or Bachelor’s degree with 15 hours college level tax and 2 years’ experience in tax / accounting
- Must have strong accounting fundamentals
- Requires an undergraduate degree from an accredited university in Accounting, Finance, Business or related
- 18 course hours in Accounting OR Graduate degree in Accounting are strongly preferred
- Ability to communicate well in writing verbally
- Associate’s degree in Accounting or Finance required – Bachelor’s degree in Accounting a plus