What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. General Accountant position at McMillan Pazdan Smith LLC?
Description
McMillan Pazdan Smith is seeking to hire a dynamic Senior Staff Accountant to join our Greenville, SC office location. The Senior Staff Accountant collaborates closely with the Accounting Supervisor, the Controller and the Director of Finance & Accounting. This position is responsible for a variety of accounting and financial transactions. This includes actively participating in month end closing activities, account reconciliations, financial statements, various account analysis, and the preparation/review of journal entries. This position will be required to perform a wide variety of accounting work and provide opportunities for outstanding experience and exposure in different business areas. This is a hands-on position and should be a strong communicator and skilled financial analyst.
This is an excellent opportunity to grow and contribute in a diverse and fun environment. McMillan Pazdan Smith has 480 employees across eleven studio locations in the Southeast.
Essential Functions
- Responsible for all aspects of the month end close process.
- Manage and monitor all accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems.
- Maintain internal control safeguards for the receipt of revenue, costs and both team and organizational actual expenditures.
- Consistently analyze financial data in an accurate and timely manner with oversight from the Accounting Supervisor.
- Participate in all outside accounting firm’s review/audit and tax activity
- Ad hoc financial analysis of financial and operating metrics to support business requirement.
- Keep abreast of current trends and practices in the accounting field.
- Provides support with any type of tax filing
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in accounting, finance, or related field
- Five years of strong and progressive accounting and analysis experience
- Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, and Excel software
- Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles
- Working knowledge of manual and automated accounting systems
- Superior numeric skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Ability to effectively and confidently prioritize and execute tasks with many competing priorities
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Good analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to provide excellent customer service (internally and externally)
- Strong attention to detail
- Exceptional organizational and follow-through skills
- Ability to manage information with a high level of detail and accuracy
- Self-motivated and ability to work independently
- Proven ability to assess factors, make, and communicate decisions
- Demonstrated cultural awareness and sensitivity
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in an architectural, engineering, or construction firm
- ERP implementation experience
- CPA/CMA
- Experience with Deltek Vision or Vantagepoint software
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to grasp objects; reach with hands and arms; balance, stop, kneel, or crouch; speak or listen. The employee must occasionally lift and/or carry up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job in the office work environment, the employee will not be exposed to hazardous working conditions. The noise level in the office work environment is usually moderate.