Staff Accountant

Description

This could be the ideal position for you, if you're looking to advance your career while receiving strong compensation and excellent benefits. Robert Half is seeking a Staff Accountant to join a thriving, fast-paced company that recognizes talent and effort. Based in the Rochester, New York area, this is a hybrid position. The role is a career-building, multi-faceted opportunity to work for a company that recognizes and rewards hard work. You will succeed in this position if you have the ability to prepare journal entries, monthly and year-end closings, bank reconciliation, fixed asset maintenance, and general ledger reconciliation and be responsible for many aspects of internal reporting during the monthly close. If you want to participate in compliance, interact with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, and review schedules reporting processes, this role might be right for you. This could be the ideal position for you, if you have a complex understanding of Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets.

For confidential consideration, please apply or email your resume to Deanna Palumbo out of the Rochester, NY Robert Half office.

What you get to do every day

• Participate in various department-wide initiatives

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

• Maintain intercompany transactions, billings, and reconciliation

• Impromptu reporting and special projects, when requested

• Organize and review various financial data, then report it in a manner that is useful and understandable

• In-depth experience with reconciling month end balance sheet accounts

• Organize schedules for monthly payments and capital lease

• Regular maintenance and reconciliation of journal entries

• Manage reconciliation, depreciation, and fixed asset ledgers

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

• Assist with the month end, quarter end and year end closing process by preparing monthly financial close workbooks

• Produce journal entries and perform the month end close under minimal supervision

• Assemble journal entries and thorough account reconciliations that include, but are not limited to, cash, prepaid expenses, and payroll

Requirements

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

• Proficient with spreadsheets and databases

• Outstanding organizational, written and verbal communication skills required

• Ability to prioritize work and balance multiple projects and deadlines

• Demonstrated ability in exemplary analytical, quantitative and social skills

• Demonstrated ability to work in a dynamic and constantly changing company environment

• Knowledgeable of ERP systems

• Ability to work within spreadsheets and databases

• 1+ years of recent and relevant accounting experience

• High attention to detail and possesses excellent organizational and writing skills

• Foundational knowledge in general ledger

• Solid understanding of bank reconciliations

• Experience with Accounts Payable (AP)

• Adjusting Journal Entries experience

• Command of Cash Flow Analysis

• Self-starter with efficient time management and organizational skills

Robert Half is the world's first and largest specialized talent solutions firm that connects highly qualified job seekers to opportunities at great companies. We offer contract, temporary and permanent placement solutions for finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, and administrative and customer support roles.

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