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Accountant

• Monitor, analyze and reconcile general ledger accounts and financial statements.
• Review and understand assigned accounts for accuracy and ensure that transactions are properly recorded.
• Perform reconciliation, research and resolve discrepancies using finance systems.
• Perform analysis related to areas as assigned to identify and minimize discrepancies.
• Monitor systems and accounts to ensure accurate and timely financial systems and accounts are processed within GAAP and business unit and regulation guidelines.
• Perform account reconciliation and post journal entries, as needed.
• Lead regular month-end closing activities including reconciliations, analysis, journal entries, accruals and reporting.
• Lead the maintenance of procedural and control documentation.
• Accurate application of GAAP (including regulatory specific accounting guidance).
• Apply understanding of GAAP to operational accounting functions.
• Review and verify the accuracy of account coding.
• Provide income tax and transaction tax support.
• Prepare and analyze monthly income and balance sheet statements that are used for internal and external reporting purposes.
• Respond to financial inquiries; provide requested information for use in effective management of the business and/or meeting external reporting needs.
• May be assigned one or more finance functional areas below: Operational Accounting.
• Prepare and/or review journal entries in accordance with regulatory and/or GAAP requirements.
• Reconcile, research and resolve discrepancies of balance sheet accounts.
• Perform monthly income statement and balance sheet analysis to support internal and external reporting.
• In addition to the above, Fixed Asset assignments include: Reconcile quarterly and annual physical counts. Monitor, analyze and record construction projects.
• Provide and effectively communicate financial information for internal and external audit.
• Prepare certain external regulatory filings and reporting.
• Lead certain accounting activities as assigned.
• Validate work product is accurate and appropriate.
• Provide feedback, including sharing best practices, to other team members.
• Cash Accounting: Lead the monitoring of cash general ledger accounts and reconciliation of bank accounts and statements for completeness and accuracy.
• Analyze the cause of over/shorts related to bank deposits where more complex analysis is required; work with leaders to minimize these discrepancies.
• Lead daily reconciliation of all cash and non-cash receipts.
• Lead the maintenance of procedural and control documentation for Cash Accounting activities.
• Provide support and guidance to team.
• Assist in the development and maintaining team procedures and documentation.
• Help represent team at project meetings.
• Contribute towards the accomplishment of team goals and objectives.
• Assist in reviewing the work of others, as well as training and mentoring team members.
• Participates on cross-functional teams as required (e.g. acquisition/merger support, billing conversion).
• Identify business process improvement opportunities; assist in development and implementation of effective solutions.

Senior Accountant