Staff Accountant

Description Do you want to become a critical part of an innovative company? Robert Half has an opportunity for a permanent Staff Accountant. You might be our ideal candidate, if you are driven by a challenging work environment with many components. This Staff Accountant role's duties will require preparing journal entries, monthly and year-end closings, bank reconciliation, fixed asset maintenance, and general ledger reconciliation. This role is for someone who wants to perform internal reporting during the monthly close, participate in compliance, interact with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, and review schedules reporting processes. Based in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area, this role is a career-building, multi-faceted opportunity to work for a company that recognizes and rewards hard work. This is a job where a detail-oriented and analytical thinker with a talent for creating Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets can thrive.

Major responsibilities

• Partake in various department-wide initiatives

• Compose analyses for income statements and monthly balance sheets for management reporting

• Conduct month end close and compose journal entries with minimal supervision

• Manage schedules for monthly payments and capital lease

• Coordinate and analyze a variety of financial data, then report it in a way that is useful and understandable

• Assist in the month end, quarter end and year end closing process including monthly financial close workbook preparation

• Impromptu reporting and special projects, when requested

• Produce complex journal entries and account reconciliations which include, but are not limited to, cash, prepaid expenses, and payroll

• Manage intercompany reconciliation, billings, and transactions

• Maintain, implement, and adhere to internal controls while ensuring that accounting procedures comply with GAAP

• Regularly maintain and reconcile journal entries

• Become well-versed in month end balance sheet account reconciliations

• Oversee depreciation, fixed asset ledgers, and reconciliation Requirements - Ability to work within spreadsheets and databases

• Self-starter with efficient time management and organizational skills

• Fully formed organizational, written and verbal communication skills

• Efficient in ERP systems

• Notable analytical, quantitative and social skills

• Ability to handle multiple projects within strict deadlines

• Financial analysis experience

• Proficient with spreadsheets and databases

• Recent and relevant accounting experience

• Ability to work well in matrix organization and dealing with ambiguity

• Be detailed, flexible, and organized

• BA/BS or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics

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