Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant

Our client has an immediate need for a Senior Accountant at their Atlanta location. As the Senior Accountant, you will provide a wide range of services to your clients and often act as an internal consultant or as a Project Manager for financial and accounting projects. Specific accountabilities include:

• Analyzing and explaining productivity and expense variances
• Preparing balance sheet reconciliations
• Identifying errors in service orders and making appropriate correcting journal entries
• Calculating and posting WIP for services
• Monitoring machine projects for budgeted vs. actual margin and explaining variances
• Holding monthly P&L review meetings with department managers
• Running reports in SAP and providing and inputting any missing data
• Monitoring and reporting internal warranty costs
• Coordinating annual and quarterly collection of information for timely tax return preparation
• Preparing deferred tax calculations
• Preparing monthly installation cost tracking spreadsheet
• Preparing internal and external service sales orders for billing
• Ensuring proper revenue recognition for machine contracts
• Preparing for SAP technical closes by correcting settlement rules on work orders
• Preparing special project cost-tracking spreadsheets as needed
• Ensuring high quality and timely economic and financial information reporting to upper management.

Desired Skills and Experience

• A minimum of 5-7 years experience in a manufacturing organizations recognized for developing high-quality Finance/Accounting professionals.
• In-depth knowledge of financial/operational controls and financial statement analysis and preparation.
• Strong Cost Accounting experience and the ability to analyze and solve problems.
• Experience working with IFRS accounting standards and U.S.
  
  -based accounting standards.
• A BS/BA in Accounting.
• A high level of proficiency with MS Excel
• Experience with SAP.
• CPA (or CMA) and/or MBA/MS are strongly preferred