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Job Title: Accountant III - Bank Reconciliations
Job Description:
This position reports to the Bank Reconciliation Supervisor and assumes a variety of responsibilities within the Bank Reconciliation Team. This team performs a variety of routine technical and transactional accounting work using the application of accounting theory and practices. Key responsibilities are building strong working relationships, communicating effectively (verbal and written), analyzing data and drawing conclusions, maintaining quality assurance, and impeccable time management skills.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Technical and Compliance
- Review monthly account reconciliations
- Prepare and review end of month journal entries
- Research reconciliation issues and identify resolutions
- Provide guidance to offshore team and field locations
- Examines a variety of accounting documents for accuracy and completeness
- Ensures transactions and process are handled in accordance with applicable SOX controls, accounting standards and policies
- Demonstrates a high level of understanding of accounting practices and procedures
- Prepare analytic reports and schedules
- Collect and organize support documentation for external and internal audit requests as needed
- Maintain and build solid relationships with other corporate teams, field locations and management
- Participate in special projects including developing project plans, testing, training and deployment
- Achieve quality, accuracy and timely delivery of assigned tasks
- Maintain process workflows and ensure documentation is current
- Operate in accordance with internal and external regulations and procedures
- Identify and communicate process improvement opportunities
- Provide status updates regularly
Functional Competencies
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to multi-task
- Ability to work independently, prioritizing and meeting multiple deadlines
- Ability to prepare and present reports and supporting documentation
- Ability to express ideas clearly and effectively in both written and oral communications
- Strong internal and external customer focus
Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related discipline required with and understanding of accounting
- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in a degreed accounting role required
- 5+ years of cash or general ledger reconciliation experience required
- Experience with BlackLine and Oracle preferred
- Experience in special projects and process improvements preferred
- Advanced Knowledge Microsoft Office – Outlook, Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and SQL (preferred)
Personal Attributes
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to the gain confidence and cooperation of others; must be able to interact with individuals of varying levels, abilities and locations.
- Strong work ethic with an ability to work in a high-volume, fast-paced, frequently changing environment
- Ability to work in teams across international borders
- Innovative, forward-thinking and results-driven
Salary : $30 - $32