What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Accountant position at Secretariat?
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The Company
Secretariat is your source for independent expert advisory services. Secretariat specializes in international arbitration, general commercial arbitration/litigation, forensic accounting, economic damages, construction, and government contracting. Secretariat’s experts maintain integrity, quality, and objectivity when solving complex disputes, delivering detailed analyses, and articulating meaningful results in a clear and concise manner.
We are looking for a Staff Accountant to join our rapidly growing international firm. The Staff Accountant supports the month-end close process, account reconciliations, and day-to-day accounting operations. This role ensures accurate and timely financial information by preparing journal entries, analyzing variances, maintaining schedules, and assisting with audits. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, proactive, and eager to grow in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
Month-End Close
There are a lot of fine consulting firms out there. But when everything is on the line, it takes a unique combination of skill and savvy to succeed under pressure.
Our culture and people are driven by passion, pride, and performance. Passion for the clients we serve, the work we deliver, and the communities we live in. Pride in our cohesive team recognized for excellence and trusted to perform in the most challenging situations. And our track record of outstanding performance across all of our disciplines speaks for itself.
Our people are motivated to be the best in everything they do – from our approach to making the complex simple to the way we mentor our up-and-coming talent to become trusted experts early in their careers.
To learn how Secretariat collects, uses, and protects your personal information during the recruitment process, please review our Privacy Policy
From a collaborative culture to teammates who will always be by your side, find a career that will grow with you. Deliver your impact at Secretariat.
The Company
Secretariat is your source for independent expert advisory services. Secretariat specializes in international arbitration, general commercial arbitration/litigation, forensic accounting, economic damages, construction, and government contracting. Secretariat’s experts maintain integrity, quality, and objectivity when solving complex disputes, delivering detailed analyses, and articulating meaningful results in a clear and concise manner.
We are looking for a Staff Accountant to join our rapidly growing international firm. The Staff Accountant supports the month-end close process, account reconciliations, and day-to-day accounting operations. This role ensures accurate and timely financial information by preparing journal entries, analyzing variances, maintaining schedules, and assisting with audits. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, proactive, and eager to grow in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
Month-End Close
- Prepare and post journal entries, including accruals, prepaids, amortization, and reclasses.
- Reconcile key balance sheet accounts (cash, AR, AP, fixed assets, accruals).
- Assist in P&L variance analysis and prepare supporting schedules.
- Ensure all close tasks are completed in accordance with the internal calendar.
- Reconcile bank accounts to cash ledgers
- Review bank deposits, withdrawals and record ad-hoc transactions as needed
- Follow-up on outstanding items and communicate discrepancies or undocumented transactions with the appropriate team
- Organize customer and supplier invoices and collaborate with Tax Manager for filing
- Reconcile monthly/ quarterly tax filings by tying tax files to ledger accounts
- Investigate and report discrepancies between filings and ledger accounts
- Assist with year-end financial audit requests
- Help ensure adherence to internal controls and company accounting policies.
- Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and improve accuracy.
- Partner with Operations, Billing, FP&A, and HR on accounting inquiries.
- Help implement new systems, processes, or automations as the business scales.
- 1 year of previous job experience in accounting
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field
- Strong understanding of GAAP principles
- Intermediate experience with proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office Suite
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
- Ability to work in a team setting, both in person and remotely
- Organizational skills and attention to detail
- Excellent time management skills with an ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to function well in a high-paced and adapt to shifting priorities
- Ownership mentality and willingness to take initiative
- Analytical mindset with a process-improvement orientation
- Public accounting audit background
- Experience with Workday and/or other ERP systems
- Experience with multiple currencies and translations
- CPA or CPA-track coursework
There are a lot of fine consulting firms out there. But when everything is on the line, it takes a unique combination of skill and savvy to succeed under pressure.
Our culture and people are driven by passion, pride, and performance. Passion for the clients we serve, the work we deliver, and the communities we live in. Pride in our cohesive team recognized for excellence and trusted to perform in the most challenging situations. And our track record of outstanding performance across all of our disciplines speaks for itself.
Our people are motivated to be the best in everything they do – from our approach to making the complex simple to the way we mentor our up-and-coming talent to become trusted experts early in their careers.
To learn how Secretariat collects, uses, and protects your personal information during the recruitment process, please review our Privacy Policy