Sr. Accountant

Description

Robert Half currently has a permanent position open for an experienced Senior Accountant with drive and know-how to join a rapidly-growing team in the St. Louis Park, Minnesota area. As a Senior Accountant, your responsibilities will include financial statement preparation and consolidation, account analysis and reconciliations, cash flow analysis, budgets and forecasting, audit preparation, and internal control maintenance and regulatory reporting. This position comes with a strong compensation and benefits package, including a long-term potential opportunity for the candidate. We are currently looking for an individual who possess excellent analytical skills and thrives working in a challenging and fast-paced environment while contributing to company growth.

Your responsibilities in this role

• Engage in various department-wide initiatives

• Successfully collaborate with business partners to ensure compliance with corporate accounting policies, procedures, controls and provide support on special requests when necessary

• Delegate resources to Ad-hoc projects as necessary

• Commitment to continuously improve the automation of the accounting and reporting process

• Provide assistance in coordinating quarterly reviews and testing with internal and external

• Allocate and prepare monthly consolidated P& L and Balance Sheet flux analysis reports for management

• Present Balance Sheet account reconciliations

• Present analysis on financial results such as trends, performance metrics, benchmarks, etc.

• Complete monthly accounting close procedures and deliverables that includes journal entries, reconciliations, and reports in the compensation area in compliance with GAAP

Posted by Rick Harrison at Robert Half

Requirements - Familiarity with corporate performance management (CPM) and business intelligence systems required

• Demonstrated analytical abilities, tendency to quickly connect dots and surmise logical outcomes

• Comfortable working in a changing and dynamic environment

• BA/BS in Accounting, CPA credentials are preferred

• Ability to complete multiple tasks and projects within deadlines

• Strong communication and social skills and able to receive criticism well

• 3-5 years of overall general accounting experience, ideally with Big 4 experience

• Deep understanding of internal controls and SOX compliance

• Great attention to detail

• Skilled at time management

• Self-driven motivator who takes initiative on projects with a strong ability to understand and solve creative challenges

• Solid understanding of month end closings

• ERP system experience

• Previous experience in public accounting is highly valued

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