Job Description

Robert Half is offering a permanent position for a skilled Staff Accountant to join their dynamic, rapidly-growing team. The Staff Accountant will prepare journal entries, monthly and year-end closings, bank reconciliation, fixed asset maintenance and general ledger reconciliation. You will also be responsible for various aspects of internal reporting throughout the monthly close. You will lend your skills to developing and implementing accounting policies. In addition, you will review schedules for the reporting processes, take part in compliance, and interact with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits. This position is very complex as it plays a part in the production of Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets. This company, based in the Louisville, Kentucky area, offers a challenging and multi-faceted opportunity where effort is rewarded.

What you get to do every single day

- Maintain intercompany transactions, billings, and reconciliation

- Prepare journal entries and account reconciliations which include, but are not limited to, cash, prepaid expenses, and payroll

- Survey and organize various financial data, reporting it in a useful and understandable manner

- Prepare monthly financial close workbooks to support the month end, quarter end and year end closing process

- Periodically maintain and reconcile journal entries

- Maintain depreciation, fixed asset ledgers, and reconciliation

- Compose journal entries and conduct the month end close with minimal supervision

- Partake in a variety of department-wide initiatives

- Maintain, implement, and adhere to internal controls. Also ensure that accounting procedures comply with GAAP

- Impromptu reporting and special projects, when requested

- Arrange schedules for capital lease and monthly payments

- Assemble analyses for monthly balance sheets and income statements for management reporting

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

Requirements

- Great Plains (GPAC) experience

- Extraordinary analytical, quantitative and social skills

- Recent and relevant accounting experience

- Strong organizational, written and verbal communication skills required

- Attention to detail and ability to follow standard procedures is a requirement

- Seizes opportunities to produce results without direct supervision

- Working knowledge of spreadsheets and databases

- Ability to work within spreadsheets and databases

- Knowledgeable of ERP systems

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

- Ability to work in a dynamic and changing environment

- Ability to handle multiple projects within strict deadlines

Robert Half