Staff Accountant

Staff Accountant

Job Description: The work of staff accountants is the foundation on which the work of others is based. As staff accountants gain experience on proficiency, they are given more difficult assignments and greater responsibility, including some of the duties of the in-charge accountant. In due course, they should be handling entire engagements as an in-charge accountant.

Basic Responsibilities/Functions:

• Work on various audit, accounting, or tax engagements under direct supervision of a superior (depending on the size of the engagement, the superior could be in-charge, supervisor/supervising senior, manager or shareholder)
• Become familiar with the Firm’s policies and procedures, manuals and forms
• Assist/prepare financial statements, using a provided format guide
• Perform any other work assigned by a superior
• Prepare work papers following the Firm policies and procedures
• Bring unusual/significant accounting and auditing questions to the in-charge accountant

Examples of Work Performed:

• Review and test internal control systems
• Prepare working trial balance and adjusting journal entries
• Prepare schedules of assets, liabilities, and related revenue and expense accounts
• Maintain property and equipment records, and calculate depreciation and amortization
• Reconcile subsidiary accounts to control accounts
• Foot columns and test extensions
• Trace entries to original and other sources
• Examine vouchers and other types of source documents
• Prepare and mail confirmation requests
• Perform year-end cutoff procedures, including inventory observation, petty cash counts, and shipping and receiving documentation
• Schedule confirmation returned, list exceptions and follow-up on their disposition
• Prepare statistical and account analyses, including listing of data, recording data from one format to another, and calculating percentage relationships
• Prepare payroll, sales, property and other types of local tax returns
• Prepare simple corporate and partnership income tax returns
• Prepare individual income tax returns

Requirements:

• BS in Accounting
• Minimum 1 year experience in Public Accounting