What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Accountant position at What Goes Around Comes Around?
Overview:
The Senior Accountant role will be responsible for overseeing complex accounting functions, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, and assisting with financial reporting process.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepare general ledger entries by maintaining records and files, including reviewing journal entries and reconciliations prepared by junior staff.
- Lead complex account reconciliations and general ledger management, including sales and subledger account reconciliations.
- Analyze financial statements for discrepancies by performing periodic analysis of key accounts or expense categories.
- Mastery of company chart of accounts to ensure GAAP compliance of financial reporting.
- Preparation of workpapers for rent based on ASC 842 standards, fixed asset depreciation, prepaid expense amortization.
- Maintain accurate reporting through month end close process: including but not limited to review of variance vs budget to identify missing entries and errors, booking of necessary accruals and/or reserves, and ensuring completeness and accuracy of the month end close process.
- Ownership, maintenance, and reconciliations of balance sheet accounts (Cash, Prepaids, Accrued Liabilities, Lease Liability, etc.)
- Sales tax processing and compliance, including but not limited to filing of monthly sales tax returns, ensuring company compliance with regulatory requirements, analyzing variances, and preparing related journal entries.
- Assist with audit process (financial, bank, sales & use tax), preparing schedules, gathering audit support and investigating variances.
- Assist with the compilation of monthly, quarterly and annual management reporting packages.
- Developing and updating accounting processes within new financial system.
- Support Accounting & Finance teams with ADHOC analysis and reporting.
Required Skills / Experience:
- 4-6 years of related accounting experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Expert level skills of Excel
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
- Strong technical, problem solving, and analytical skills
- Ability to work in a collaborative culture
- Intermediate level understanding of US GAAP and IFRS
- Experience with financial systems implementation
- Public Accounting/Audit experience preferred
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with constantly changing demands
- Ability to juggle multiple demands with strong time management skills
Salary : $95,000 - $110,000