Staff Accountant Job in Pleasant Grove, UT

Staff Accountant

We are looking for a detail-oriented Staff Accountant to join our team, on a Contract basis. This role will focus on strengthening the accuracy of financial records by resolving historical account issues and supporting a dependable monthly close process. The ideal candidate brings strong reconciliation experience, sound accounting judgment, and the ability to organize incomplete financial information into clear, review-ready documentation.

Responsibilities:

• Examine the general ledger in depth to uncover posting errors, unsupported balances, duplicate activity, and long-outstanding reconciling items.
• Restore and resolve complex balance sheet reconciliations across cash, premium trust, receivables, payables, suspense accounts, and unapplied cash balances.
• Match historical carrier activity, commission-related balances, and payable records to detailed underlying policy transactions, researching discrepancies as needed.
• Prepare clear variance summaries, supporting schedules, and adjusting journal entries for review and approval by accounting leadership.
• Maintain a structured remediation log that tracks open accounting issues, aging status, ownership, and expected completion timelines.
• Manage recurring month-end responsibilities, including reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, prepaid activity, allocations, and supporting close schedules.
• Analyze monthly account fluctuations and document business drivers behind material changes or unusual balances.
• Create and refine process documentation, reconciliation templates, and approved improvements that strengthen controls and streamline accounting workflow