Senior Accountant

Job Title: Senior Accountant

Location: Edison NJ 08837

Duration: 6 months contract (Possible extension)

Need Active CPA License.

Duties:

Job Summary:

• Prepares, analyses, and reviews financial statements using accounting principles.
• Reconciles accounts from general ledger, and prepares journal entries, budgets and month end reports.
• Identifies complex accounting problems, researches solutions and corrects problems.
• Examines financial statements and documents for conformance with accounting requirements and principles.
• May have lead responsibility for special projects.
• Participates in all levels of accounting activities within the finance department.
• Applies GAAP to carry out the core responsibilities of all assigned duties.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Reconciliation, analysis and adjustment of general ledger accounts are completed on a timely basis.
• Ensures accuracy of account balances.
• Ensures account activity complies with accounting standards.
• Use online research and review of original record sources to evaluate appropriateness of account balance.
• Maintains accurate detail in support of the balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other documents that project the organization's financial position.
• Provides completed account analysis and reconciliation of cash on a daily basis and investigates to supervisor/manager for review any discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Routinely review vendor statements for key vendors to identify any potential delays in payment or other issues.
• Ensures that credits detailed on the vendor statements are utilized.
• Inputs accounts payable data and verifies for accuracy.
• Computer input is performed completely, accurately and in a timely manner.
• All information is verified and open invoice register is presented to manager for approval of the check runs prior to printing.
• Ensure that information input is verified a Products the invoice.
• Match the invoice, check request and check copy to cancel the voucher package and prepare for filing.
• Ensure check runs are performed in accordance with the established scheduled days and that checks are sealed and mailed.
• Maintain and review vendor master file to ensure that information is current, not duplicative and complete and accurate.
• Prepares assigned areas of annual budget, including capital budget, portions of operating budget, analysis of the budget, and the budget package in accordance with due dates.
• Upload the annual budgets into the accounting software.
• Written and verbal communication is done in a manner that is clear, concise, timely, and accurately conveys the message.
• Language and content should be grammatically correct and presented in a way that it easily understood.
• Communicates with financial institutions, tax authorities, external auditors, corporate office, and others to correctly account for and report financial information.
• Prepare and distribute monthly close calendar communicating when deliverables are expected.
• Provides customers with timely, accurate, and thorough responses to their inquiries.
• All audit work papers are completed and analysed within appropriate time frames to allow for effective and efficient audits.
• Interacts with internal and external auditors as necessary.
• Maintains accurate accounting of all cash on hand as well as detailed records pertaining to cash transfers between accounts and wires to outside agencies.
• Prepares and completes accurate journal entries by closing date on monthly basis:
• -Ensure approvals are obtained prior to filing.
• -Entries entered timely in general ledger.
• Identifies accounting problems and internal control weaknesses, research possible solutions and presents recommendations and conclusions to Senior Accountant and/or Management for further evaluation.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Senior Accountant applicants must have a minimum of four years prior accounting experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals while performing a variety of complicated tasks.
• Demonstrates knowledge and application of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), standards and procedures.
• A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected along with leading the work of others.
• Must be able to lift a minimum of 5 lbs., push and pull a minimum of 5 lbs. and stand a minimum of 1 hour per day.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Prior hospital or healthcare accounting experience highly preferred.
• Prior experience with ERP software: PeopleSoft Financial and/or Lawson.