Staff Accountant

Job Description - Staff Accountant (260009U) Job Description Staff Accountant - ( 260009U ) Description

CONSTRUCTION SPECIALTIES, INC.
Founded in 1948, Construction Specialties (CS) is a specialty building products manufacturer. CS provides solutions to building challenges that architects, designers, building owners, facility managers, and contractors face every day. Since inventing the first extruded louver, CS has become a global leader in all our product categories. Our products are a part of some of the most iconic buildings around the world–from the world’s tallest tower, Burj Khalifa in Dubai, to the Oculus at the World Trade Center Transit Hub in Manhattan.

If you want to work in an inspiring atmosphere and collaborate with customers and colleagues to solve challenges, we're the right place for you. CS:
People. Buildings. Better.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

The Staff Accountant will play an analytical role within Corporate Finance, supporting the monthly close, financial reporting, account reconciliations, management analysis, and business partnering activities. This position is designed for an accounting professional who can move beyond transaction processing to explain financial results, identify trends and risks, strengthen controls, and provide clear, decision-useful insights to finance and business leaders.

• Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules with a focus on accuracy, completeness, and timely resolution of reconciling items.
• Analyze monthly financial results, including departmental spending, accruals, prepaid expenses, and other key accounts.
• Perform variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior periods; investigate drivers of change and communicate clear explanations to finance and business partners.
• Support the month-end and quarter-end close process by preparing close deliverables, identifying unusual activity, and helping ensure reporting deadlines are met.
• Partner with Corporate departments to review expense activity, invoice coding, contract payments, and cost allocations to ensure proper accounting treatment and expense recognition.
• Analyze intercompany invoices, allocations, and related general ledger activity to ensure appropriate coding, documentation, and elimination support.
• Prepare analyses related to accruals, reserves, assets, liabilities, expenditures, and other accounting estimates,
• Support periodic forecasting and annual budgeting by preparing financial schedules, analyzing trends, and translating business activity into meaningful financial assumptions.
• Create and maintain reporting tools, schedules, and analyses that improve visibility into financial performance and help leaders make informed decisions.
• Assist with internal and external audit requests by preparing schedules, gathering support, explaining account activity, and maintaining audit-ready documentation.
• Evaluate internal control considerations within assigned areas, identify process gaps or inefficiencies, and recommend practical improvements.
• Ensure accounting transactions are performed in accordance with company policies, GAAP principles, reporting deadlines, and a sound internal control environment.
• Use Excel and financial systems to organize data, perform account analysis, identify exceptions, and summarize findings in a clear and actionable manner.
• Collaborate with Corporate Finance and cross-functional teams to answer questions, resolve issues, and provide analytical support on special projects.
• Continuously look for opportunities to streamline close activities, improve reporting quality, automate recurring analysis, and strengthen the overall finance operating model.
• Prepare annual census forms.
• Perform additional work as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required; CPA certification, CPA candidate status, or public accounting…