Staff Accountant

Essential Job Functions

• Interact professionally and effectively through verbal and written communication with all professional contacts with emphasis on company interests
• Efficiently create complex documents and/or reports using spreadsheet, database, and accounting software in a timely fashion.
• Independently prioritize and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes.
• Analyze simple to moderately complex data to determine the appropriate course of action.
• Perform accounting duties and control activities to ensure financial results are reported without error.
• Research and analyze selective data sets and/or accounts pertaining to the duties of the specific functional area of accounting being performed.
• Prepare month-end journal entries, reconciliations, budgets, forms, reports, and schedules relating to the accounts in the specific area of focus.
• Effectively communicate with field partners, corporate support staff, and senior management, ensuring issues related to accounting are communicated to the appropriate impacted partners for action.
• Analyze problems, research the root causes, and overcome roadblocks to functional success.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• A 4 year college degree in Accounting/Finance or a minimum 3 to 5 years of work experience at the level of junior or staff accountant preferred.
• Communicate well in English and convey accounting concepts to non-accounting associates.
• Good interpersonal communications skills and interaction with other department personnel as well as senior management.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of most Microsoft Office Suite applications (e.g. Excel, Word, and Access) and 10-key by touch
• Must be accurate, detail oriented, proficient with personal computer based programs, and trainable on company specific systems
• Interact with peers and leaders of the business with poise and confidence.
• Analyze business decisions critically and engage in constructive conversations regarding alternative points of view when needed.
• Knowledge of the fundamentals associated with different functional areas of Accounting.
• Management of multiple concurrent projects/priorities at one time.