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Position: Accountant - Pittsburgh at Volt in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Accountant IV

Build Your Future With VOLT Volt is immediately hiring for an Accountant IV in Pittsburgh, PA. As an Accountant IV you will:

May be called upon to support a particular line of business, region, or accounting process, as assigned for any accounting processes from the point of transaction through to the close, consolidation, and financial reporting of business outcomes for enterprise.

Provides support for a wide range of end to report (R2R) accounting processes and general ledger events required to transform data into information for reporting purposes. This includes: processing of complex financial transactions; identifying and analyzing exceptions; and providing support for a wide range of R2R activities such as audits, the fulfillment of ad hoc requests, and special project activities.

Prepares and/or posts journal entries for complex general ledger accounts; and reconciles g/l activity to ensure that the trial balance includes expected transactions and reflects the correct balances.

Supports more complex recurring and one time transactions, such as accruals, intercompany, and adjusting transactions in addition to performing more advanced and complex reconciliations of accounts or financial data.

Participate in more complex accounting activities, documenting the detailed processes agreed, documenting the means to perform the more complex reconciliations, accruals, and allocations, taking the technical accounting guidance from the Technical Accounting team and applying it to one time events, or new recurring transactions, supporting ERP and other R2R support tool implementation activities, and any other support requested to develop and sustain common end-state financial and accounting processes in support of their direct supervisor and the global process owners End to End (E2E) General Process Owners (GPOs), Functional Process Owners (FPOs), and Discrete Process Owners (DPOs).

This includes global, regional, and country specific R2R processes.

Supports the day to day capture of performance metrics at the functional, team and individual level, and participates in rotating assignments within the regional and global service centers, associated with lines of business, legal entities and geographies to grow their depth of understanding of the various lines of business, and the unique attributes of the legal entity, regulatory, and in-country requirements, over time.

The ideal candidate:

Has a bachelor's degree, preferably in accounting or finance; or equivalent work.
Has accounting experience in financial services preferred (public accounting experience in US).
Has experience working the full accounting cycle from transaction through consolidation and close to financial reporting.
Has experience with accounting applications such as People Soft.
Has experience with direct customer contact, answering business inquiries.

This is a contract opportunity 4 days onsite 9:00AM - 5:00PM Pay rate: $50.00 - 52.00 per hour based on skill level. Benefits:
Volt offers benefits (based on eligibility) that include the following: health, dental, vision, term life, short term disability, AD&D, 401(k), sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Volt is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits any kind of unlawful discrimination and harassment. Volt is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national origin, citizenship, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the statutes, rules, and regulations in the locations where it operates.

Accountant - Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania