General Ledger Accountant

Job Title: General Ledger Accountant

Location: New York, NY 10281

Duration: 3 months -Possible for extension

Shift: M-F 8-5

Summary:

• As a GL Accountant, you will be responsible for accounting activities relating to the maintenance of a complete and accurate general ledger. Responsible for the medium-to-complex accounting activities associated with maintaining ledger accounts and for developing financial statements and reports.

What You'll Do:

• Analyze records of financial transactions to determine accuracy and completeness of entries.
• Close month-end accounting books. Reconcile balance sheet and profit and loss statement.
• Prepare income statements, balance sheets and various other accounting statements or financial reports for field and management reference for mid-to-large size customers or markets including reconciliations & variance analysis.
• Analyze accounting variances and prepare variance explanation reports.
• Examine financial statements and documents for conformance with accounting requirements and principles.
• Create month-end accounting entries and reconcile discrepancies, posts to GL and reviews variances to budget.
• Other duties may be assigned.