Senior Accountant

Description

Robert Half is currently partnering with a leading financial services firm in need of an experienced Senior Accountant to join their dynamic team for a long-term contract-to-full-time opportunity. As a Senior Accountant, you will be responsible for data mining, account analysis and reconciliations, as well as assisting in the preparation of certain monthly reports. This Senior Accountant opening is located in St.

Paul, Minnesota and will offer you great experience and a great company culture. The ideal candidate will have prior experience with GAAP accounting and also regulatory accounting and reporting. If you are an analytical Senior Accountant with proven data mining skills who enjoys the thrill of working in a fast-paced environment, submit your application today!

Major responsibilities:

- Prepare monthly management reports for key stakeholders.

- Assist with the statutory reporting process, including the interpretation of state and federal statutes and regulations.

- Participate in the review of financial data to detect potential accounting and reporting errors.

- Perform comprehensive data analysis on large data sets utilizing both Excel and various data mining tools.

- Carry out monthly accounting close procedures and deliverables (journal entries, reconciliations, reports) in compliance with GAAP.

- Prepare balance sheet reconciliations.

- Bring a daily dedication to continuously improve the automation of the accounting and reporting process.

- Analyze financial results (benchmarks, trends, performance metrics)

- Function with business partners to ensure compliance with procedures and controls, corporate accounting policies, and provide support on special requests

- Ad-hoc projects as necessary

Requirements

- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance, CPA credentials are highly desired

- 5+ years of overall general accounting experience

- Prior experience working with Oracle, SAP, D365, Net Suite or another well-known ERP system

- Demonstrated experience communicating with high level internal and external stakeholders

- Outstanding skills in financial and data analysis, with the ability to spot inaccuracies in data

- Prior experience with state and federal level statutory reporting and filing preferred

- Demonstrated knowledge of data mining

- Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including VLOOKUPS and pivot tables

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