Senior Accountant - Payroll Emphasis (Remote)

Essential Functions

• Performs complex accounting activities to maintain complete and accurate general ledger. This includes researching, as necessary, new pronouncements for reporting. Review and identify trends or issues and the related sources to make recommendations for change.
• Prepares journal entries and reconciles ledger accounts, and performs monthly and quarterly fluctuation analysis.
• Interface and assists with internal and external audit
• Leads special projects including process improvement initiatives
• Plays key role in monthly and quarterly close process
• Perform account analysis to assist with ensuring accurate financial reporting
• Perform high level review of account balances.
• Ability to demonstrate critical thinking by calling out assumptions and identifying root cause.
• Identify errors and risks that could have a financial impact on the company's financial statements in accordance with company policies, US GAAP and in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley.
• Communicate with multiple levels in the organization and escalate issues to appropriate management.
• Partner with Training or Subject matter experts to develop desktop procedures and training material
• Train or assist the Trainer in conducting offshore and onshore training
• Analyzes offshore production against Service Level Agreements (SLA) to identify issues with substandard quality, turn-around time and productivity and suggest solutions to management team
• Prepares and analyzes monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and reports; ensures financial information has been recorded accurately
• Prepares integrated revenue/expense analyses

Job Complexities

• Assignments are broad and complex in nature, usually requiring significant originality and ingenuity. Has significant latitude for un- reviewed actions or decisions.
• Complexities associated with large company, multiple locations in a global environment.
• Influences department processes and procedures
• Act in an advisory capacity, making recommendations which have an important bearing on the conduct of the organization's business
• Uses professional concepts and company policies and procedures to solve a wide range of difficult problems in imaginative and practical ways.
• Exercises judgment to determine appropriate action.
• Unidentified errors could have a business and/or financial impact.

Supervision Received or Extended

• Works under general direction relying on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish tasks
• A wide degree of creativity and latitude is required.
• Needs to be able to work with minimal supervision.
• No responsibility for the supervision of others.
• May provide functional advice or training to less- experienced team members
• May lead and direct the work of others but is not a supervisor

Impact

Knowledge and Skills/Technology Used

• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field
• Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work - Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Excellent analytical, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Advanced knowledge in the interpretation and application of accounting principles and practices under US GAAP. Knowledge of IFRS a plus.
• Strong computer skills including MS Office. Ability to query data using data extraction tools.
• Large ERP Software experience, Oracle preferred.
• Hyperion experience preferred.
• Excellent analytical, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Critical Thiing - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Complex Problem Solvi - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Judgment and Decision Maki - Consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree in accounting.
• MBA preferred

Typical Range of Experience

• 4+ years of experience in the field or in a related area
• Prefer 2+ years of experience working with non-domestic based accounting teams.

License or Certification

• CPA desired but not required

The pay range for this role is $65,600.00-$109,200.00

This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.

Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal work hours and/or responsibilities from time to time, as needed.