Staff Accountant

at  Robert Half

A terrific company could have the perfect full-time Staff Accountant position for you. You’ll be interested in this position if strong compensation, excellent benefits, and career advancement are priorities for you. Staff Accountants looking to join a thriving, fast-paced company that recognizes talent and effort will be interested in Robert Half’s opportunity for ambitious and detail-oriented candidates. This Louisville, Kentucky area-based position is a challenging, multi-faceted opportunity to work for a company that recognizes and rewards hard work. In this role, it will be critical for you 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. To succeed in this role, you will need to be comfortable participating in compliance, interacting with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, and reviewing schedules reporting processes. This could be the ideal position for you, if you have a complex understanding of Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets.

Key responsibilities

• Participate in various department-wide initiatives
• Assist with the month end, quarter end and year end closing process by preparing monthly financial close workbooks
• In-depth experience with month end balance sheet account reconciliations
• Ad-hoc reporting and special projects, as requested
• Maintain depreciation, fixed asset ledgers, and reconciliation
• Manage schedules for monthly payments and capital lease
• Survey and organize various financial data, reporting it in a useful and understandable manner
• Assemble journal entries and thorough account reconciliations that include, but are not limited to, cash, prepaid expenses, and payroll
• Maintain intercompany transactions, billings, and reconciliation
• Prepare analyses for monthly balance sheets and income statements for management to report on
• Regularly maintain and reconcile journal entries
• Assist in implementation, maintenance and adherence to internal controls and accounting procedures ensuring compliance with GAAP
• Compose journal entries and conduct the month end close with minimal supervision
• Self-starter and strong ethical standards
• Ability to work in a dynamic and changing environment
• Skilled with ERP systems
• Strong analytical capabilities and discernment
• High attention to detail and possesses excellent organizational and writing skills
• Ability to handle multiple projects within strict deadlines
• BA/BS or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics
• Mature organizational, written and verbal communication skills
• 1+ years of recent and relevant accounting experience
• Solid understanding of month end closings
• Journal entries experience preferred
• Experience with Microsoft Great Plains Accounting
• Knowledge of financial statement preparation
• Deep understanding of account reconciliation
• Competent with spreadsheets and databases
• Ability to work within spreadsheets and databases

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• Participate in various department-wide initiatives
• Assist with the month end, quarter end and year end closing process by preparing monthly financial close workbooks
• In-depth experience with month end balance sheet account reconciliations
• Ad-hoc reporting and special projects, as requested
• Maintain depreciation, fixed asset ledgers, and reconciliation
• Manage schedules for monthly payments and capital lease
• Survey and organize various financial data, reporting it in a useful and understandable manner
• Assemble journal entries and thorough account reconciliations that include, but are not limited to, cash, prepaid expenses, and payroll
• Maintain intercompany transactions, billings, and reconciliation
• Prepare analyses for monthly balance sheets and income statements for management to report on
• Regularly maintain and reconcile journal entries
• Assist in implementation, maintenance and adherence to internal controls and accounting procedures ensuring compliance with GAAP
• Compose journal entries and conduct the month end close with minimal supervision
• Self-starter and strong ethical standards
• Ability to work in a dynamic and changing environment
• Skilled with ERP systems
• Strong analytical capabilities and discernment
• High attention to detail and possesses excellent organizational and writing skills
• Ability to handle multiple projects within strict deadlines
• BA/BS or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics
• Mature organizational, written and verbal communication skills
• 1+ years of recent and relevant accounting experience
• Solid understanding of month end closings
• Journal entries experience preferred
• Experience with Microsoft Great Plains Accounting
• Knowledge of financial statement preparation
• Deep understanding of account reconciliation
• Competent with spreadsheets and databases
• Ability to work within spreadsheets and database