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Staff Accountant, Accounting Job Description
- Write offs and adjusts sundry and damage claim invoices as per company policy
- Assist internal and external auditors by providing information requested through PBC lists
- Participate monthly pre-close calls and ensure all new transactions or issue related to upcoming close are timely identified and approach agreed with the manager
- Work to contribute towards teams’ objective of achieving top quartile KPI’s by completing all activities timely and ensuring accuracy
- Complete other projects, as assigned by the manager from time
- Prepare monthly closing journal entries and schedules for the Firm and its foreign subsidiaries
- Prepare the annual Firm Budget and monthly Firm Forecast
- Prepare management and department reports of firm revenue and expenses
- Assist in the preparation of the Firm’s financial statements and coordination of annual audits for the Firm’s various offices and Profit Sharing Plan
- Review vendor invoices for payment and ensure proper coding and allocations
- Ability to maintain high level of accuracy
- Ability to communicate both verbally and through written mediums in a clear and concise manner
- Requires a very organized and detailed oriented individual with ability to juggle multiple tasks
- Assist with tracking of market data & research contracts/subscriptions, forecast files and exchange/user reporting
- Track the Firm’s fixed assets inventory and maintain depreciation database and calculations
- Maintain general ledger and financial reporter software, upgrades and reporting templates
Staff Accountant, Accounting Job Description
- Assist with accounts payable and accounts receivable
- Assist with implementation of internal controls
- Serve as primary contact for all internal and external business partners for any credit card reconciliation related issues or needs
- Reconcile credit card settlement to POS on a daily basis for all brands and sales channels
- Reconcile all credit card receivable accounts on a monthly basis
- Review and provide guidance related to company policies/procedures as it relates to our credit card reconciliation process
- Provide various analyses to leadership regarding trends, cardholder base, loyalty programs
- Propose solutions to correct credit card receivable reconciliation issues
- Audit support for credit card processes, system testing as needed
- Record direct report center counter deposits receipts
- Batching and coding tickets into general ledger system
- Some manufacturing cost accounting
- Financial accounting reports
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance(4-year degree
- 1-3 years accounting experience in complex, global environment
- Superior knowledge and experience with Microsoft Excel
Staff Accountant, Accounting Job Description
- Quarterly Schedule preparation for SEC reporting
- Ensure company compliance with internal policies, GAAP and SOX
- Assistance with Financial System maintenance
- Other GL functions such as journal entry preparation for accruals and adjustments, account analysis
- Responsible for monthly and quarterly analysis and reconciliations of a variety of executive incentives including, defined benefit and defined contribution plans
- Manage several databases designed to track and distribute plan data
- Assist in the forecasting and budgeting process for agencies and Corporate departments
- Understand and apply relevant GAAP literature and be able to answer questions from Business Units, Auditors, managers, and other departments related to this field
- Understand and apply relevant Sarbanes-Oxley requirements in order to ensure proper business controls remain in place
- Submit journal entries using SAP
- Experience with YARDI is beneficial
- Min 2 years of previous experience in the accounting field, and
- SAP, and/or
- Verbal/Written Chinese language skills preferred
- Minimum of one year of accounting experience
- 1-3 years accounting experience required, experience handling credit card settlement reconciliation
Staff Accountant, Accounting Job Description
- Create detailed reports to support performance and strategic business initiatives
- Provide reporting to identify & interpret revenue trends and explain fluctuations
- Prepare communications such as memos, charts, graphs and process documentation
- Identify efficient and standardized methods for recurring processes and reporting
- Collaborate with teammates throughout the village to develop and implement revenue related processes
- Identify and investigate data inconsistencies to ensure the integrity of revenue data in the GL
- Review and record daily loan funding
- Review and record daily loan sales at the pool and correspondent level
- Daily Journal entry preparation of loan-level transactions and multiple transaction imports
- Handle daily deposits at corporate level
- Comprehensive knowledge of accounting and financial principals
- Attention to detail and sound judgment related to routine decisions
- Confidentiality and discretion on both internal and external matters
- Strong ability to follow written and oral directives as related to assigned duties
- Experience with both internal and external audits
- Bachelor’s Degree (emphasis in Accounting) strongly preferred!
Staff Accountant, Accounting Job Description
- Prepare monthly & quarterly financial schedules (BS9s, Variance Analysis, Gain & Loss Rec, HFM & FA Reserve -30%
- Provide cross-function support
- Record journal entries in the company’s general ledger (SAP)
- Perform remeasurement for all foreign currency denominated balance sheet accounts on a monthly basis
- Upload monthly trial balances from foreign subsidiaries
- Support the consolidated quarterly reviews and annual audit
- Investigate budget vs
- Run reports and analyze information in SAP and BW
- Support testing of enhancements within SAP as needed
- Monitor and reconcile inter-company transactions
- Experience with Month-End close preferred
- 3 - 6 years of experience in journal entries, accruals, intercompany AP and AR, supporting AP, AR, collections, data extraction and report preparation
- Strong Excel - must be able to create reports out of large amounts of data
- Team player attitude with initiative and strong attention to detail
- You must be a good listener and communicator
- Must be professional and polished in communication and presentation (this is a tie environment)