Contract Senior Accountant - 100% REMOTE
Covington KY 41011, United States
Job Summary
Occupation
Business and Financial Operations
Specialty
Accountant/Auditor
Location
Ohio, Ohio, United States
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job Description
Last Update:
5/02/23
Janfay Corporate Recruiting is in search of a self-directed and experienced Senior Level Accountant to oversee daily financial and accounting activities. The successful candidate will be responsible for month-end close, complicated reconciliations, budget management, financial analysis of complex records and reports, forecasting.
This is a REMOTE, fantastic opportunity for a professional who thrives in a busy workplace and is well-versed in working closely with senior management.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assisting in the month-end closing process to ensure timely and accurate accounting.
- Ensure journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations are completed timely and accurately.
- Complete proper analysis to ensure that expenditures, profit and balance sheet are properly stated.
- Participating in forecast and budget preparation, using strong analytical skills to develop insightful revenue and expenditure trends and recommend appropriate budget/forecast levels while developing adequate reporting to ensure accountability to budgets/forecasts.
- Developing a broad business knowledge as well as specific knowledge and relationships with selected business units in order to better understand their budgets/forecasts and recommend potential cost savings opportunities.
- Building, maintaining and distributing daily, monthly, and quarterly financial reports with a focus on improved insight into business issues and optimization of reporting processes.
- Ensuring accounting controls are adequate and functioning properly by recommending, implementing and monitoring policies and procedures.
- Participating in various special projects as determined in order to better understand the business operations from a broader corporate scope. Contribute to determining the return on investment of capital expenditures or major projects.
- Performing other duties and projects as assigned.
HIRING PROFILE
- 3 to 4 years of strong experience with month-end close, budgets, forecasts and analysis
- Intermediate MS Excel experience is required
- Experience working with a large ERP system is required
- A strong work ethic: willing to work to ensure deadlines are met (month-end close in particular)
- Strong consulting, problem-solving, and conceptual skills, along with interpersonal skills necessary to work with various levels of management
- A positive attitude and an intellectual curiosity to investigate variance issues
- Must possess keen attention to detail and organization.
- The ability to be a team-player while using initiative and persistence to get results
- The ability to function in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting (preferred) or Finance
- MBA or CPA preferred