at Robert Half in ITASCA, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Description This full-time Staff Accountant position is with a terrific company. You’ll be interested in this position if strong compensation, excellent benefits, and career advancement are priorities for you. Do you want to work for a thriving, fast-paced company that recognizes talent and effort? Robert Half is looking for ambitious, detail-oriented Staff Accountants. This is a challenging, multi-faceted opportunity in the Itasca, Illinois area, at a company where effort is rewarded. In this role, it will be critical for you to prepare journal entries, monthly and year-end closings, bank reconciliation, fixed asset maintenance, and general ledger reconciliation and be responsible for many aspects of internal reporting during the monthly close. If you’re looking for work where you will participate in compliance, interact with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, and review schedules reporting processes, this role might be right for you. This could be the ideal position for you, if you have a complex understanding of Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets.
Major responsibilities
- Intercompany billings, transactions, and reconciliation
- Take part in various department-wide initiatives
- Ad hoc reporting and performing special projects upon request
- Recurring journal entries maintenance and reconciliation
- Maintain capital lease and monthly payment schedules
- Prepare journal entries and account reconciliations which include, but are 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
- Assemble analyses for monthly balance sheets and income statements for management reporting
- Become well-versed in month end balance sheet account reconciliations
- Survey and organize various financial data, reporting it in a useful and understandable manner
- Implement, maintain, and adhere to internal controls and accounting procedures ensuring compliance with GAAP
- Manage depreciation, fixed asset ledgers, and reconciliation
- Compose journal entries and conduct the month end close with minimal supervision Requirements – Proficient in ERP systems
- Competent with spreadsheets and databases
- Working knowledge of spreadsheets and databases
- Chinese experience
- 2+ years of recent and relevant accounting experience
- Proven analytical skills – defining problems, collecting relevant data, drawing valid conclusions, and recommending improvement/corrective actions
- High attention to detail and possesses excellent organizational and writing skills
- Fully formed organizational, written and verbal communication skills
- BA/BS or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics
- Strong organizational skills and a proven ability to meet deadlines
- Self-starter with efficient time management and organizational skills
- Ability to work in a dynamic and changing environment
Robert Half is the world’s first and largest specialized talent solutions firm that connects highly qualified job seekers to opportunities at great companies. We offer contract, temporary and permanent placement solutions for finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, and administrative and customer support roles.
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All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Benefits are available to contract/temporary professionals, including medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance. Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan. Visit roberthalf.gobenefits.net for more information.
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