Staff Accountant

Company: Robert Half Finance & Accounting
Location: Norfolk
Posted on: January 16, 2020

Job Description:

DescriptionYou could find the perfect full-time Staff Accountant position working for this terrific Retail company. You could receive strong compensation and excellent benefits in this position, all while advancing your career! A thriving, fast-paced company that recognizes talent and effort is working with Robert Half Finance to find ambitious, detail-oriented Staff Accountant candidates. This Norfolk, Virginia area-based position is a challenging, multi-faceted opportunity to work for a company that recognizes and rewards hard work. This role's duties will require you to prepare journal entries, monthly and year-end closings, bank reconciliation, fixed asset maintenance, and general ledger reconciliation and be responsible for many aspects of internal reporting during the monthly close. Consider this role if you want to participate in compliance, interact with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, and review schedules reporting processes. To be preferred for this position, you will need to have a complex understanding Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets. Please forward resumes to stacy.booth@roberthalf.comResponsibilities

• Organize schedules for monthly payments and capital lease
• Impromptu reporting and special projects, when requested
• Regularly maintain and reconcile journal entries
• Maintain, implement, and adhere to internal controls while ensuring that accounting procedures comply with GAAP
• Oversee depreciation, fixed asset ledgers, and reconciliation
• Coordinate and analyze a variety of financial data, then report it in a way that is useful and understandable
• Support the month end, quarter end and year end closing process by preparing monthly financial close workbooks
• Conduct month end close and compose journal entries with minimal supervision
• Maintain intercompany transactions, billings, and reconciliation
• Assemble analyses for monthly balance sheets and income statements for management reporting
• Prepare complex journal entries and account reconciliations including but not limited to cash, prepaid expenses and payroll
• Thorough experience with month end balance sheet account reconciliations
• Take part in various department-wide initiativesRequirements
  • Outstanding organizational, written and verbal communication skills required
  • Self-starter and strong ethical standards
  • Be detailed, flexible, and organized
  • Efficient in ERP systems
  • Ability to work within spreadsheets and databases
  • 2+ years of recent and relevant accounting experience
  • BA/BS or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics
  • Excellent analytical, quantitative and social skills
  • Proficient with spreadsheets and databases
  • Account reconciliation experience desired
  • Expertise in general ledger
  • Strong familiarity with journal entries
  • Ability to work in a dynamic and changing environment
  • Ability and willingness to meet business critical deadlinesRobert Half Finance & Accounting, the world's leader in specialized financial staffing, provides exciting full-time opportunities in the areas of accounting, bookkeeping, finance, audit, taxation and more. We pioneered the professional staffing industry, and we've been successfully matching professionals with employers since 1948. Our proven proprietary processes, along with our relationships in 325 locations worldwide, allow us to provide you unparalleled access to exciting career opportunities. But don't take our word for it. Our company has appeared on Fortune magazines list of World's Most Admired Companies since 1998, and 9 out of 10 of our customers would recommend our service to a colleague.Apply for this job now or contact our nearest office at 888.490.5461 for additional information.All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be authorized to work in the United States. All applicants applying for Canadian job openings must be authorized to work in Canada. 2019 Robert Half Finance & Accounting. An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Disability/Veterans.By clicking 'Apply Now' you are agreeing to Robert Half Terms of Use.Salary: $45,000.00 - $50,000.00 / YearlyLocation: NORFOLK, VADate Posted: December 24, 2019Employment Type: Full-timeJob Reference: 04550-0011260730Staffing Area: Finance

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