Senior Accountant
Job Description
Position Summary: Senior Accountant
Open opportunity for a Senior Accountant within the General Accounting team. The Senior Accountant will be responsible for monthly, quarterly and yearly closes, preparation of financial statements and a variety of management reports that are properly controlled and in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
The Senior Accountant will be part of the General Accounting group and will report directly to the Accounting Manager of General Accounting.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Review, process, gather, and compile accounting transactions and documents throughout the month for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with general accounting principles and established internal control policies and procedures.
- Prepare general ledger activity (including journal entries), various state filings, reconciliations and accounts payable transactions
- Ensure financial integrity and timely monthly, quarterly and year end close processes.
- Partner with stakeholders across Divisional Finance and Accounting COE’s to improve financial and accounting accuracy.
- Review and investigate reconciliation variances, assisting management to develop appropriate action plans addressing issues identified.
- Provide support for internal and external audits including control walkthroughs, documentation support and inquiry response.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously and coordinate cross-functionally to meet strict project execution deadlines.
- Resolve complex finance and accounting challenges.
- Improve processes and deliverables by automating and refining tasks to ease workload during periods of peak volume.
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Job Requirements
About You
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting
- minimum of 3 years experience in accounting
- Requires broad knowledge of accounting practices/principles and preparation of strategic recommendations to management
- Proficiency in Excel/MS Teams
Preferred:
- Good working knowledge of insurance industry
- Excellent verbal, written, computer, financial data, internal consulting, and customer-focused communication and presentation skills.
- Strong organizational skills with proven ability to follow through on multiple tasks and priorities.
- Good working knowledge of accounting standards, account reconciliations, and month end close experience.
- Ability to multitask, prioritize, and work independently with precise detail and follow-up reporting.
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or partial progress.
- Public accounting audit or Industry accounting experience
Additional Information
Compensation and benefits
On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.
Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:
- Medical/dental/vision plans
- Life and accident insurance
- 401(K)
- And more...
Meet Your Recruiter
Mike Podlasek
Senior Recruiter
Responsible for recruiting the CPS division that specializes in Accounting, Finance, Audit and Tax. CPS is a highly specialized, full cycle recruiting firm, placing top talent with the best companies. We've been in business since 1973 and over the years we've placed more than 40,000 of the best and brightest candidates with our clients.
If you are looking for a position in Accounting, Finance, Audit or Tax or if your company is looking for someone to provide you with good candidates for hire, please don't hesitate to contact me.