Financial Accountant
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Your Role: Financial Accountant
As a Financial Accountant, you will support the daily financial operations of the organization by maintaining general ledger integrity, leading essential month-end close processes, and administering payroll and expense management workflows. Reporting directly to the Corporate Controller, you will serve as a foundational pillar of our finance team — ensuring accurate reporting, enforcing internal controls, and optimizing financial efficiency.
This role balances hands-on accounting tasks with strategic process improvements. From multi-account reconciliations and fixed asset schedules to payroll support and audit readiness, you will play a vital, high-visibility role in ensuring our financial data is precise, timely, and actionable across all operating regions.
Key Responsibilities
- General Ledger & Month-End Close: Maintain accurate financial records by performing general ledger reconciliations, recording prepaids, accruals, and fixed asset depreciation schedules, and executing month-end and year-end close activities.
- Variance & Financial Analysis: Analyze general ledger account variances, identify discrepancies, and collaborate with team members to safeguard data integrity and support accurate financial reporting.
- Payroll & Expense Administration: Assist with payroll processing, payroll journal entries, and tax reconciliations; manage corporate credit cards, monitor policy compliance, and facilitate employee expense reimbursements.
- Transactional Operations & Tax Support: Support accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) functions, prepare timely sales tax filings, and maintain compliance across operational regions.
- Audit & Internal Controls: Assist with internal and external audits, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow reporting, and the ongoing improvement and documentation of internal control systems.
- Cross-Functional Support: Collaborate cross-functionally with operations, HR, and site leadership to resolve financial queries, streamline reporting, and drive continuous accounting process improvements.
- Drives Accuracy & Detail (Ensures Accountability): Takes absolute personal ownership of data integrity, following through on commitments with precision and rigorous attention to detail.
- Thinks Critically & Analytically (Critical Thinking): Uses structured logic and financial insights to analyze variances, resolve complex reconciliations, and evaluate root causes.
- Communicates Effectively: Delivers clear, concise, and helpful financial updates to cross-functional partners and senior leadership.
- Plans & Prioritizes: Manages competing close schedules, recurring reporting tasks, and administrative priorities with operational discipline and efficiency.
- Solves Problems & Adapts: Uncovers root causes to transactional discrepancies, adapts to evolving software tools, and embraces process improvements with a positive, can-do attitude.
- Partnership: You build collaborative, trust-based relationships across departments — listening actively, communicating transparently, and helping colleagues navigate financial processes.
- Excellence: You hold yourself to rigorous standards of accuracy and precision, constantly seeking ways to improve internal controls and accounting efficiencies.
- Integrity: You act with complete honesty and discretion, maintaining strict compliance with accounting standards (GAAP) and upholding corporate governance.
- Corporate Controller & Leadership: Serves as a trusted accounting partner, delivering timely financial analysis, close support, and forecasting documentation.
- Human Resources & Operations: Collaborates closely on payroll workflows, expense administration, employee onboarding/offboarding, and cross-departmental alignment.
- External Auditors & Financial Partners: Supports audit readiness by providing accurate, well-documented schedules, reconciliations, and audit walk-through materials.
- Experience: 3–5 years of progressive general ledger accounting experience, preferably within a service industry or multi-site environment.
- Education & Accounting Knowledge: Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance preferred, with a strong, practical understanding of GAAP standards.
- Technical Skills: Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUP’s, pivot tables) and enterprise ERP systems. Hands-on experience with systems like QuickBooks Online, Rippling, or ADP/Paychex is highly preferred.
- Core Accounting Expertise: Proven experience in account reconciliations, month-end close procedures, fixed asset management, payroll support, and corporate credit card administration.
- Process Focus: Familiarity with internal control principles, tax filings, and continuous process improvements.
- Communication & Organization: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a collaborative, customer-service-oriented approach to internal stakeholders.
- Job Type: Full-time
- Location: Corporate Office / Hybrid (as determined by leadership)
- Schedule: Standard business hours (Monday–Friday) with flexibility during peak close and audit periods
- Competitive salary
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid time off & holiday pay
- Professional development, mentorship, and career advancement pathways within the finance organization
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