Accountant, Accounting Manager, Financial Reporting

Overview

This position will fill a key role within the finance group. The position will support various aspects of finance and accounting for the company. The successful candidate will be effective and experienced in the general accounting and payroll functions and possess solid accounting and payroll experience combined with strong analytical skills. The candidate should fit in an environment that rewards bright, self-starting, energetic, focused individuals with increasing responsibility and challenge.

The candidate will have strong problem-solving, reasoning, work ethic, organizational, attention to detail, and decision-making skills, and will be able to work with others to complete accounting analysis. This role supports various aspects of the financial cycle, including payroll processing and reconciliations, and will involve collaboration with internal department employees, leadership, audits, and monitoring metrics to aid daily operational decisions.

General accounting responsibilities include payroll processing and reconciliations, journal entries, intercompany transactions, account reconciliations, and accruals. A key component of this role includes analytical analysis of accounting information that provides a basis for internal audit review of general ledger and payroll activities.

• Report, verify, reconcile, and import biweekly and special payroll processing.
• Process fixed and general journal entries for three entities.
• Reconcile monthly general ledger accounts directly associated with payroll and other general ledger activities.
• Reconcile quarterly and annual payroll tax returns.
• Assist in the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing processes, ensuring transactions are under GAAP and GASB pronouncements and guidelines.
• Assist with ensuring internal policies and procedures are followed and communicate exceptions to department management.
• Work as a team member with other staff members in standardizing practices and procedures.
• Discrepancy resolution: ability to research and resolve discrepancies.

• Graduate from an accredited college with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or Finance.
• Two years of experience in a corporate accounting setting.
• Two years of experience processing payroll, taxability of benefits, and reconciliation of payroll-related functions, ensuring accuracy of financial statement reporting.
• Any equivalent combination of experience and training provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities considered.
• Demonstrated skills and experience in managing goals through collaboration and teamwork.
• Required interpersonal, solid oral, and written communication skills since often communicating to non-accountant professionals about accounting information.
• Excellent mathematical and computational skills.
• Ability to apply solid problem-solving techniques.
• Experienced and skilled in reconciliations.
• A valid Georgia driver’s license with a clean driving record.

• Occasional bending, stooping, crouching, climbing, or balancing
• Ability to lift to waist level, pull, and push up to 40 pounds.
• Use hands for simple grasping, writing, drawing, and operating office equipment.