Staff Accountant

Job Description

Do you want to become a critical part of an innovative company? Robert Half has an opportunity for a full-time Staff Accountant. If you are driven by a challenging work environment with many components, you will thrive in this role. Preparing journal entries, monthly and year-end closings, bank reconciliation, fixed asset maintenance, and general ledger reconciliation will be essential for this Staff Accountant role. If you can perform internal reporting during the monthly close, participate in compliance, interact with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, and review schedules reporting processes, you might be a good fit for this role. Based in the Council Bluffs, Iowa area, this role is a career-building, multi-faceted opportunity to work for a company that recognizes and rewards hard work. This could be the ideal position for you, if you are a detail-oriented and analytical thinker with a talent for creating Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets.

What you get to do every single day

- Organize and review a variety of financial data, reporting it in a way that is useful and understandable

- Support the month end, quarter end and year end closing process, which includes monthly financial close workbook preparation

- Maintain fixed asset ledgers, depreciation, and reconciliation

- In-depth experience with month end balance sheet account reconciliations

- Assist in implementation, maintenance and adherence to internal controls and accounting procedures ensuring compliance with GAAP

- Maintain capital lease and monthly payment schedules

- Produce complex journal entries and account reconciliations which include, but are not limited to, cash, prepaid expenses, and payroll

- Ad-hoc reporting and special projects, as requested

- Prepare monthly balance sheet and income statement analyses for management reporting

- Perform the month end close and produce journal entries under minimal supervision

- Recurring journal entries maintenance and reconciliation

- Intercompany billings, transactions, and reconciliation

- Partake in a variety of department-wide initiatives

- BA/BS or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics

- Ability to prioritize work and balance multiple projects and deadlines

- Attention to detail and proven ability to follow standard procedures is a requirement

- Microsoft Excel experience

- QuickBooks experience desired

- Good understanding of Client management