Seeking to hire a Senior Accountant for our client in Chicago, IL. They will consider contract to hire or direct hire.
This role is responsible for general accounting operations of all financial transactions; reconciling account balances and bank statements, maintaining general ledger and assisting in month-end close procedures; ensures accuracy and effectiveness in all accounting tasks.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Verify, allocate, post and reconcile accounts payable and receivable
- Prepare monthly financial and various detailed analyses
- Prepare Sales and Tax returns
- Responsible for daily cash management reporting
- Maintains company checking account – keeps a running total of available funds, maintains petty cash and reimbursements
- Collections – reviews status of delinquent accounts and initiates collection action as well as sending to collections
- Generates timely financial statements
- Creates general ledger weekly, as well as at month end
- Monthly journal entries
- Monthly closings – distributes necessary reports to appropriate personnel
- Approves and determines credit limit for open account customers
- Prepare monthly reports, including accounts receivable reports, head counts, monthly sales reports, complete financial reports, etc.
- Review and recommend improvements and modifications to accounting systems and procedures; develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
- Engaged in the more critical and confidential aspects of accounting
- Duties require broad conceptual judgment, initiative and ability to deal with complex accounting issues
- Works with confidential data, which if disclosed, might have significant internal effect minor external effect
Competencies:
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to work and interact with departments throughout the organization
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook); Excel skills including VLOOKUP’s and pivot tables preferred
- Thorough knowledge and skills of general accounting concepts, techniques and principals
- Familiarity with financial accounting statements
- Accuracy and attention to detail; aptitude for numbers and quantitative skills
