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Staff Accountant
Classification: Staff Accountant
Compensation: $60000.00 to $65000.00 yearly
This terrific company is seeking a full-time Staff Accountant. This position can offer you strong compensation, excellent benefits, and career advancement. Robert Half is looking for an ambitious, detail-oriented Staff Accountant for a thriving, fast-paced company that recognizes talent and effort. Located in the West Allis, Wisconsin area, this position is a challenging, multi-faceted opportunity to work for a company that recognizes and rewards hard work. To succeed in this role, you will need 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. This position will participate in compliance, interact with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, and review schedules reporting processes. You will be preferred for this role if you have a complex understanding of Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets.
Your responsibilities
- Partake in various department-wide initiatives
- Implement, maintain, and adhere to internal controls and accounting procedures ensuring compliance with GAAP
- Assist in the month end, quarter end and year end closing process including monthly financial close workbook preparation
- Organize and review various financial data, then report it in a manner that is useful and understandable
- Produce journal entries and perform the month end close under minimal supervision
- Upon request, take part in special projects and impromptu reporting
- Manage intercompany reconciliation, billings, and transactions
- In-depth experience with reconciling month end balance sheet accounts
- Prepare journal entries and account reconciliations which include, but are not limited to, cash, prepaid expenses, and payroll
- Manage depreciation, fixed asset ledgers, and reconciliation
- Regular maintenance and reconciliation of journal entries
- Manage schedules for monthly payments and capital lease
- Prepare monthly balance sheet and income statement analyses for management reporting
- BA/BS or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics
- Dedication and requisite skills to meet critical business deadlines
- Spreadsheet and database capabilities
- Critical thinking skills and the ability to retain complex work directions
- Proficient with spreadsheets and databases
- Self-driven motivator who takes initiative on projects with a strong ability to understand and solve creative challenges
- Recent and relevant accounting experience
- Ability to work well in matrix organization and dealing with ambiguity
- Outstanding organizational, written and verbal communication skills required
- Strong attention to detail
- Solid understanding of Accounts Payable (AP)
- Proficiency in bank reconciliations
- Journal entries experience required
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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