What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Accountant position at Spirit Airlines and Careers?
Overview:
Soar with us and enjoy travel perks that bring you closer to what matters. Join a team that empowers you to bring your full self to work, grow personally and professionally, and fuel the communities we serve. At Spirit Airlines, the sky isn’t the limit—it’s just the beginning!
Responsibilities:
At Spirit, we live “More Fly.” It’s not just about getting from point A to B—it’s about feeling fly while you’re at it. For our Team Members, it means thinking BIG, taking action, making connections, and having a blast while doing it. From the station to the cockpit, the cabin to the computer, every day is an adventure as we redefine travel.
Soar with us and enjoy travel perks that bring you closer to what matters. Join a team that empowers you to bring your full self to work, grow personally and professionally, and fuel the communities we serve. At Spirit Airlines, the sky isn’t the limit—it’s just the beginning!
Responsibilities:
Execute accounting and analysis for designated accounts to provide timely and accurate financial data to management. Review the work of other team members to ensure accounting is accurate, complete, and well-documented. Prepare and compile quarterly and annual SEC filings and ensure compliance with US GAAP and SEC requirements. Perform internal control testing over designated accounts in order to verify accuracy and provide for compliance with Sarbanes Oxley. Assist in the annual audit and quarterly review activities of external auditors.
- SEC Reporting: Participate in the reporting process of the 10Q and 10K by preparing financial statement and MDA schedules.
- Partake in the SEC filing tie-out process to ensure the accuracy of the numbers reported.
- Meet all internal and external deadlines for SEC filings.
- Accounting & Analysis: Prepare journal entries and reconciliations to account for financial activity of designated accounts on a monthly basis.
- Ensure accounting is complete, accurate, GAAP-compliant and well documented.
- Review reconciliations prepared by Staff Accountants to confirm that the reconciliations were prepared accurately and are properly documented.
- Close Process: Analyze all designated account activity in order to provide analysis and explanation to management during close meetings.
- Ensure all internal deadlines surrounding the close process are met.
- Prepare external party financial statements on a monthly basis.
- SOX Compliance: Ensure monthly accounting, analysis and close process is compliant with internal control requirements and well-documented.
- Communication with External Auditors: Communicate with external auditors during the quarterly reviews and annual audit.
- Gather and provide documentation/reports requested by the auditors to ensure a timely review/audit.
- 3-5 years' experience in Accounting
- CPA License
- An excellent knowledge of US GAAP and SEC rules and regulations is required combined with the ability to research and propose company positions on accounting issues.
- Ability to execute and follow-through to completion and documentation.
- Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Organizational, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Exerts up to 10 lbs. of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time.
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EEOC Statement:
Spirit Airlines is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All aspects of employment are governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.