Sr Accountant

Senior Accountant Overview
- Responsible for financial accounting, financial reporting and operating activities
- Activities at the junior levels include settlement accounting; accounts receivable; fixed assets; and at the senior levels preparing budgets and financial reports; conducting financial analyses; and making recommendations to senior management
- The Controller should have oversight and controls in place around the accounting and business processes and assure the accuracy and timely completion of all accounting transactions

Responsibilities
- Performs complex accounting activities (e.g., sub-ledger accounting [SLA] and high level financial statements) in accordance with accounting principles and standards to ensure compliance with all relevant regulations, laws and reporting requirements
- Responsible for analyzing and exercising judgment on financial performance and complex issues
- Independently determines complexity of issues, escalates and makes recommendations to leadership
- Assists with the implementation of process improvements
- Supports SOX compliance and assisting with control improvements
- Supports the business partner relationship and applies a client-service mentality towards all deliverables
- Supports relationship with external and internal auditors

Experiences
- Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of accounting principles, financial statements and financial reporting requirements and consistently delivers accurate work on a timely basis
- Experience reviewing and analyzing work for appropriate accounting treatment
- Experience implementing and suggesting process improvements
- Experience performing basic issue resolution; gains exposure to the resolution of complex issues
- Experience executing controls and assessing their effectiveness, makes recommendations to improve upon areas of concern
- Proactively builds relationships with business partners
- May produce and review internal and external reports with a moderate level of complexity to ensure compliance