Senior Accountant

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Job Description:

Are you looking to work for a company that has been recognized for over a decade as a Top Place to Work? Apply today to become a part of a company that continues to commit to putting our employees first.

Position Summary:  Provides financial support to the organization and its clients. Ensures the integrity of accounting information and transactions, applies principles of accounting to analyze financial information, and prepares financial reports.

COMPETENCIES/Role-Specific Functions: 

COMMUNICATION

Communicates well both verbally and in writing, creates accurate and punctual reports, delivers presentations, shares information and ideas with others, has good listening skills.

• Develops and maintains constructive and cooperative working relationships with others; communicates financial information to supervisors, co-workers, teams, and clients.

PROBLEM SOLVING

Breaks down problems into smaller components, understands underlying issues, can simplify and process complex issues, understands the difference between critical details and unimportant facts.

• Audits own work for accuracy and completeness, and reviews accounting systems for efficiency, effectiveness, and use of accepted accounting procedures to record transactions.

• Promotes and participates in accounting process standardization and process improvement.

• Troubleshoots errors and issues, provides solutions and communicates resolution or change.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT  

Establishes project goals, milestones, and procedures, defines roles and responsibilities, acquires project resources, coordinates projects throughout company, monitors project progress, manages multiple projects.

• Establishes realistic deadlines for completion of month and year end accounting procedures, updates deadlines if necessary, and communicates progress to supervisors and accounting team.

• Identifies duplication of tasks and coordinates with the accounting team to reduce duplication.

• Establishes deadlines and milestones for process improvement. Works with team to implement recommendations.

MENTORING/TRAINING

Acting as subject matter expert for the team and the ‘go to’ person for questions and answers.  Delivering formal and informal training on day to day objectives within the team.

• Identifies areas where team members can improve and provides training. Reviews the work product for accuracy.

CUSTOMER FOCUS

Builds customer confidence, is committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets achievable customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met, solicits opinions and ideas from customers, responds to customers.

• Analyzes business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments and obligations to project future revenues and expenses and to provide interpretation and advice.

• Listens to the business needs of customers, internal or external, and provides recommendations for achieving their requests. Creates a process that meets the customers’ needs and follows up to ensure their business needs are met.

• Advises customers on their budgets and reviews budgets for correct coding and accuracy.

JOB KNOWLEDGE

Understands duties and responsibilities, has necessary job knowledge, has necessary technical skills, understands company mission/values, keeps job knowledge current, is in command of critical issues.

• Develops, maintains and analyzes budgets, preparing periodic and/or ad-hoc reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs. 

• Maintains general ledger systems and related processes, including but not limited to accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, cash management and journal entries.

• Checks and verifies entry data for completeness and accuracy; codes regular entries for distribution to accounts.

• Flexibility to change focus regarding clients, etc.  Ability to adapt/change.

• Reviews transactions for completeness, accuracy and proper authorization.

• Checks and verifies regular entry detail for accounts payable and accounts receivable, prepares bank deposits, posts data to registers and ledgers, totals and reconciles incoming cash and disbursements. 

• Prepares, analyzes and verifies reports, financial statements and other records to assess financial condition and facilitate planning.

• Partake in financial audits