What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Accountant position at Our Team?
Responsibilities:
- Areas of accounting to assist with include corporate consolidation, accounting for corporate activities (IT, finance, HR, etc.), accounting for prepaid accounts, workers compensation, and general liabilities, including month-end close and reconciliation of related balance sheet accounts.
- Work closely with corporate and brand teams, balancing excellent customer service with an efficient process.
- Assist in maintaining and updating general ledger account trees. Add new general ledger accounts as necessary.
- Prepare and distribute monthly analyses of variances both to prior month actuals and to forecast for corporate activities.
- Perform balance sheet reconciliations for assigned accounts.
- Prepare monthly analyses of variances both to prior month actuals and to forecast.
- Take on other responsibilities and prepare ad hoc analyses as requested by management team.
Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in accounting or finance.
- Ability to quickly learn and maneuver in systems. Experience with Sage preferred.
- Self-directed, highly organized and able to meet strict deadlines.
- Detail-oriented, yet able to effectively manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to interact effectively in a fast-paced team-oriented environment.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with IT, HR, brand finance and other business groups.
- Strong customer service ethic – must understand and agree that our job is to make the other employees’ lives easier so that they can do a better job serving our customers!
- Positive attitude and patience are REQUIRED!