Staff Accountant Search Profile

Core Requirements:

• Assisting the Controller and leadership team with special accounting projects, data clean-up.
• We are seeking a detail-oriented and motivated Staff Accountant to join our growing finance team.
• The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in accounting principles and experience supporting the month-end close process, preparing journal entries, reconciling general ledger accounts, and assisting with financial reporting.
• This role requires excellent analytical skills, a high level of accuracy, and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.

Core Requirements:

• Full-Cycle Month-End Close Support: Assisting with the closing process, including journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, and maintaining an organized general ledger (GL).
• Bank Reconciliations: Performing daily and monthly reconciliations for multiple bank accounts, identifying variances, and resolving discrepancies in a timely manner.
• High-Volume Data Processing: Handling high-volume financial data with accuracy, specifically managing accounts receivable, collections data, and refund tracking.
• Daily Bank Uploads & Cash Management: Executing daily cash activities, managing positive pay approvals, processing ACH/wire templates, and tracking daily cash positions.
• Email Correspondence & Communication: Managing shared accounting inboxes, responding professionally to vendor and internal inquiries, and coordinating with other departments.
• Ad-Hoc Projects: Assisting the Controller and leadership team with special accounting projects, data clean-up, system migrations, or urgent financial analyses.

Preferred Assets:

• Advanced Excel: High proficiency with intermediate to advanced functions like Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, and logical formulas to manipulate and analyze large datasets.
• Basic Variance Analysis: Ability to compare actuals against budgets or historical periods to identify and explain significant fluctuations.
• Process Documentation (SOPs): Experience drafting clear, step-by-step standard operating procedures to document accounting workflows.
• Multi-Entity Accounting: Working in environments with multiple subsidiaries, intercompany transactions, or complex entity structures.
• NetSuite: Working knowledge.