If you're an experienced Senior Accountant, Robert Half needs your professional know-how and leadership for an exciting long-term contract / temporary opportunity. As a Senior Accountant, you will be responsible for account analysis and reconciliations, financial statement preparation and consolidation, cash flow analysis, budgets and forecasting, audit preparation, and internal control maintenance and regulatory reporting. This Senior Accountant opportunity is located in the Oregon City, Oregon area and will offer a great you a great professional experience. The ideal Senior Accountant will be someone seeking to succeed in a challenging environment and who has demonstrated success doing so before. Apply today!

Responsibilities

- Achieve compliance with corporate accounting policies and procedures and controls by working with business partners

- Manage monthly accounting close procedures and deliverables (journal entries, reconciliations, reports) in compliance with GAAP

- Assist in coordinating quarterly reviews and testing with internal and external auditors

- Ad-hoc projects as necessary

- Participate in various department-wide initiatives

- An endless desire to improve the automation of the accounting and reporting process

- Provide analysis on financial results (trends, performance metrics, benchmarks)

- Compose Balance Sheet account reconciliations

- Ability to effectively interact, verbally and in writing, with functional department managers

- Corporate performance management (CPM) and business intelligence systems experience a plus

- BA/BS in Accounting, CPA credentials are desired

- Outstanding skills in analyzing financial data and promptly generating accurate reports

- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail are a must

- Minimum 5-7 years of overall general accounting experience

- Deep understanding of internal controls and SOX compliance

- Proficient in ERP systems

- Skillful in analytical, quantitative and social skills

- The ideal candidate for this position can demonstrate proficiency in financial reporting systems

- Knowledge of Government Grants

- Process Documentation experience highly desired

- Oracle PeopleSoft experience desired

- Accounts Receivable (AR) experience

- Proven knowledge of year end closings

- Strong familiarity with grant accounting

- Commitment and abilities to meet critical business deadlines

- Comfortable working in a changing and dynamic environment

- Self-starter, ability to identify issues and resolve problem