Sr. Accountant
- Chicago, IL, United States
$100,000 to $105,000 USD / year
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Job details
- Pay
- $100,000 to $105,000 USD / year
- Apply by
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree
- Experience
- 3 to 5 years of experience in an accounting or finance role, ideally in financial services, commercial finance, or public accounting
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
The salary range for this position is $100,000 - $105,000 plus bonus, and it comes with benefits, including medical, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance. To apply to this hybrid role please send your resume to john.sadofsky@roberthalf.c0m.
Duties & Accountabilities
- Prepare monthly journal entries, accruals, and prepayment schedules, and contribute to the preparation and analysis of the monthly management financial statements.
- Prepare balance sheet account reconciliations with supporting documentation, investigating and resolving reconciling items in a timely manner.
- Prepare the bimonthly borrowing base submission to Renasant Bank, analyzing the underlying data, preparing supporting schedules, and resolving questions on its contents with the Operations team.
- Perform cash reconciliations across all bank accounts and multiple operating software platforms, identifying and investigating variances, determining the appropriate resolution, and escalating significant unresolved items, system outages, or data discrepancies to the Controller.
- Work closely with the Manila team on daily reconciliations, serving as their primary point of contact for queries, reviewing completed reconciliations, and investigating and resolving exceptions in a timely manner.
- Oversee the Manila team’s preparation of monthly reconciliations, providing guidance and supporting information, reviewing their work, and ensuring reconciliations are complete, accurate, and finalized within month-end close deadlines.
- Manage treasury activity, including monitoring bank balances and availability under the credit facility, initiating and tracking wire transfers and fund movements between accounts within established approval limits.
- Manage the Accounts Payable process, including reviewing invoice coding for appropriate GL treatment, obtaining approvals, preparing payment runs, and overseeing vendor master records, ensuring that only valid, properly supported payables are paid promptly.
- Prepare, review, and submit bi-weekly payroll information to the payroll provider, reconcile payroll to the general ledger, and investigate and resolve variances.
- Calculate monthly commissions payable to external brokers and the sales team, interpreting commission agreements for Controller approval.
- Reconcile operational finance information from Cadence and NAS to the accounting system, ensuring it is accurately reflected in the financial statements.
- Maintain the fixed asset register, including evaluating whether additions meet capitalization criteria, recording disposals, and calculating monthly depreciation.
- Perform assigned SOX controls, retaining evidence of performance and review, and update process and control documentation, recommending improvements where gaps are identified.
- Support third-party risk management by reviewing vendor due diligence documentation for completeness and risk issues and contributing to quarterly, annual, and Bank-requested vendor reviews.
- Contribute to monthly budget and forecast updates by preparing actual-versus-budget analysis and explaining significant variances.
- Prepare audit schedules and supporting documentation, and respond directly to requests from internal and external auditors.
Key Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting (or Finance with substantial accounting coursework) required; CPA or progress toward CPA certification preferred
- 3 to 5 years of experience in an accounting or finance role, ideally in financial services, commercial finance, or public accounting
- Solid knowledge of GAAP, the month-end close process, and account reconciliations, with the ability to apply GAAP to non-routine transactions
To apply to this hybrid role please send your resume to john.sadofsky@roberthalf.c0m.
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Skills
- Financial statements
- Account reconciliation
- Documentation
- Month-end close
- Accounts payable
- Payroll
- General ledger
- Sales
- NAS
- Risk management
- Arrange audit
- CPA