Job description
If you're looking for full-time Staff Accountant work, Robert Half Finance has an opportunity for you to become a critical part of an innovative Real Estate Property/Facilities Mgt company. To thrive in this position, you will need to be driven by a challenging work environment with many components. Preparing journal entries, monthly and year-end closings, bank reconciliation, fixed asset maintenance, and general ledger reconciliation will be essential for this Staff Accountant role. Other responsibilities include internal reporting during the monthly close, participation in compliance, interaction with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, and reviewing schedules reporting processes. Based in the Bloomington, Minnesota area, this role is a career-building, multi-faceted opportunity to work for a company that recognizes and rewards hard work. This is a position you will thrive in, if you are a detail-oriented and analytical thinker with a talent for creating Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets.
Responsibility
- Preparing journal entries, monthly and year-end closings, bank reconciliation, fixed asset maintenance, and general ledger reconciliation will be essential for this Staff Accountant role
- Other responsibilities include internal reporting during the monthly close, participation in compliance, interaction with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, and reviewing schedules reporting processes
- Organize and review various financial data, then report it in a manner that is useful and understandable
- Produce complex journal entries and account reconciliations which include, but are not limited to, cash, prepaid expenses, and payroll
- Compose journal entries and conduct the month end close with minimal supervision
- Support the month end, quarter end and year end closing process by preparing monthly financial close workbooks
- Upon request, take part in special projects and impromptu reporting
- Thorough experience with month end balance sheet account reconciliations
- Oversee depreciation, fixed asset ledgers, and reconciliation
- Manage schedules for monthly payments and capital lease
- Participate in various department-wide initiatives
- Assemble analyses for monthly balance sheets and income statements for management reporting
- Regularly maintain and reconcile journal entries
Qualifications
- Self-starter with efficient time management and organizational skills
- Commitment and abilities to meet critical business deadlines
- Fully formed organizational, written and verbal communication skills
- Comfortable working in a changing and dynamic environment
- High attention to detail and possesses excellent organizational and writing skills
- Working knowledge of spreadsheets and databases
- Demonstrated ability in exemplary analytical, quantitative and social skills
- 3+ years of recent and relevant accounting experience
- BA/BS or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics
- Efficient in ERP systems
- Ability to work within spreadsheets and databases
- Fund accounting experience