ProductLife Group is looking for an Accountant to join our Accounting department:
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of reporting costs, productivity, margins and expenditures for companies and organizations.
- Perform administrative tasks such as data gathering, balance sheet population or updating journal entries.
- Utilizing hands-on accounting experience and an in-depth understanding of accounting principles and company practices, perform complex accounting activities and financial analyses.
- Assist with financial and tax audits
- Document and monitor internal controls in support of auditing team
- Coordinate more complex accounting projects and initiatives with other members of the accounting and finance team or with other departments
- Ready and maintain financial and business transactions
- Analyze the effects of transactions upon account relationships
- Plan the manner in which account structures should be developed or modified
- Consider the need for new or changed controls
- Ensure the adequacy of the accounting system as the basis for reporting to management
- Analyze complex financial reports and records
- Review journal entries of junior accountants to ensure accuracy
- Train and mentor junior staff
- Perform variance analyses and prepare account reconciliations
- Maintain the general ledger, prepare tax returns, assist with audit preparations, and perform other accounting duties as assigned
- More than 5 years of general accounting experience, either in a public accounting firm or in a private corporate environment
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, math, business administration, or a related field
- Master’s degree in accountancy is required in many cases
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license, not always mandatory, but having one could give you an edge
- Highly detail-oriented and organized
- Ability to meet a constant stream of deadlines
- Proven ability to work both independently and collaboratively with different levels of employees
- Superior analytical and problem-solving skills
- Familiarity with accounting software and program