Senior Accountant

As a Senior Accountant, you will maintain financial records and ensure that financial transactions are properly recorded. You will maintain the accuracy of entries to ledger accounts and reconcile subsidiary ledger accounts to the general ledger. You will prepare complex balance sheets, profit and loss statements and other financial reports. You will analyze current costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations incurred to predict future revenues and expenses. You may guide lower-level accountants.

Responsibilities:

• Prepares journal entries, analyzes accounts, prepares statements, and assists accounting manager with monthly closing and accounting reports.
• Manage the accrual process for variable compensation programs, including monthly and quarterly accruals for annual incentive bonuses.
• Compiles and analyzes financial information to prepare entries for accounts, including general ledger and document business transactions.
• Maintains and coordinates implementation of accounting and control procedures.
• Prepares documentation of processes and procedures and recommends improvements.
• Prepares general ledger account reconciliations. 
• Researches and explains general ledger account variances to trend, budget, and prior year.
• Monitors and reviews accounting and related systems’ reports for accuracy and completeness.
• Prepares and reviews budget, revenue, expense, payroll entries, invoices, and other accounting documents.
• Analyzes revenue and expenditure trends and recommends appropriate budget levels, and ensures expenditure control.
• Explains accounting policies to staff.
• Recommends, develops, and maintains financial databases, and software.
• Supervises input and handling of financial data and reports for company automated financial systems.
• Interacts with internal and external auditors in completing audits.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related field required
• CIMA/ACA/ACCA/ICAEW/CPA qualified preferred
• 3 years required, 5 years preferred, of accounting experience
• Accounting theory, and application of principles and practices
• Principles and practices of financial record keeping and reporting
• Analysis and interpretation of complex financial and statistical data
• Assembly and preparation of data for reports
• Strong office and computer skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Able to prepare, examine, and verify financial reports
• Able to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships
• Able to research and analyze varieties of information