Robert Half is looking to find a talented, efficient Staff Accountant to join an esteemed organization. In this position, the Staff Accountant prepares journal entries, monthly and year-end closings, bank reconciliation, fixed asset maintenance, and general ledger reconciliation. During the monthly close, you'll have responsibility over many aspects of internal reporting. In addition, you will look over schedules for the reporting processes, participate in compliance, and keep in touch with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits. The majority of time spent in this position involves producing Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets. This multi-faceted, challenging long-term contract / temporary to hire opportunity is at a Santa Barbara, California based company where effort is rewarded and the environment is thriving.
Responsibilities:
- Produce complex journal entries and account reconciliations including but not limited to cash, prepaid expenses and payroll
- Assist in the month end, quarter end and year end closing process including monthly financial close workbook preparation
- Assist in implementation, maintenance and adherence to internal controls and accounting procedures ensuring compliance with GAAP
- Maintain monthly payment schedules
- Report on a wide variety of financial data and communicate it in a useful and understandable manner
- Carry out month end close, journal entries, without supervision
- Oversee the creation of monthly balance sheet and income statement analyses for reporting to management
- Participate in various initiatives spanning multiple departments
- Ad-hoc reporting and special projects, as needed
Requirements:
- Exceptional analytical, quantitative and social skills
- Self-driven motivator who takes initiative on projects with a strong ability to understand and solve creative challenges
- Experience with ERP systems
- Experience with ADP - Payroll
- Strong familiarity with general ledger
- Proven knowledge of journal entries
- NetSuite experience desired
- Payroll experience
- 2+ years of recent and relevant accounting experience
- BA/BS or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics
- High attention to detail
- Strong organizational, written and verbal communication skills required
- Spreadsheet and database capabilities
- Ability to complete multiple tasks and projects within deadlines
- Comfortable working in a changing and dynamic environment