Staff Accountant

Description We are looking for a detail-focused Staff Accountant to support core accounting operations for a growing organization in Saint Paul, Minnesota. This role plays an important part in maintaining accurate financial records, overseeing close activities, and turning financial data into useful business insight. The ideal candidate brings strong experience in general ledger accounting, reconciliations, and cost accounting, along with the initiative to improve processes and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities:

- Manage daily cash activity across multiple accounts and legal entities, ensuring transactions are recorded accurately and discrepancies are addressed quickly

- Complete monthly bank reconciliations and investigate variances through to resolution with minimal oversight

- Maintain balance sheet account reconciliations and ensure supporting documentation is accurate, organized, and current

- Prepare and record journal entries during month-end close for multiple entities while meeting reporting deadlines

- Monitor financial performance indicators, analyze fluctuations, and communicate meaningful trends or exceptions to leadership

- Assist with inventory-related accounting and support the accuracy of cost-related financial reporting

- Review monthly financial results and summarize notable movements, risks, and operational trends in writing

- Respond to vendor documentation needs and ensure requested financial or compliance materials are submitted on time

- Contribute to audit readiness by assembling schedules, reconciling accounts, and preparing supporting documentation

- Recommend and implement improvements to accounting procedures while supporting reporting requests and special projects as needed Requirements - Experience in staff accounting with hands-on responsibility for general ledger activity, journal entries, and account reconciliation

- Working knowledge of month-end close processes, including preparation of entries and review of financial statements

- Background in cost accounting and manufacturing-related accounting practices

- Ability to reconcile balance sheet accounts independently and resolve discrepancies accurately

- Proficiency in analyzing financial data, identifying variances, and explaining trends clearly

- Experience supporting audit preparation and maintaining organized accounting documentation

- Familiarity with vendor documentation workflows and cross-functional coordination

- Knowledge of corporate tax return processes is preferred

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