Staff Accountant

Staff Accountant Opportunity

Amanda Warren is looking for a detail-oriented Staff Accountant to join a fantastic team in Sacramento, California. This role supports core financial operations across general accounting, receivables, payables, and payroll while contributing to an accurate and timely close process. The position also offers the opportunity to strengthen internal procedures, assist with reporting, and take part in process improvement initiatives across the department.

Responsibilities:

• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities by preparing entries, reconciling accounts, and maintaining accurate supporting documentation.

• Review general ledger activity, investigate unusual balances, and help resolve outstanding accounting issues in a timely manner.

• Contribute to financial reporting and analysis by assembling schedules and responding to audit, tax, banking, and other external information requests.

• Provide backup assistance for billing and accounts receivable operations, including customer account research, aging review, collections support, and cash application tasks.

• Assist accounts payable functions during peak periods by reconciling vendor accounts, researching open items, and helping maintain accurate vendor records.

• Serve as a cross-trained backup for payroll by supporting reconciliations, recording payroll transactions, and investigating discrepancies when needed.

• Help document accounting procedures and support the creation of standard operating practices that improve consistency across the team.

• Identify opportunities to streamline manual work, strengthen controls, and improve workflows across close, AR, AP, payroll, and bank reconciliation activities.

• Participate in special projects such as historical account cleanup, reporting enhancements, percentage-of-completion accounting support, and future accounting system evaluations or implementation efforts.