Senior Accountant Accountant IV

Job Title: Senior Accountant | Accountant IV
Location: Orlando, FL – Onsite training, Hybrid after – Local candidates only
Period: 05/27/2024 to 11/29/2024 – possibility of extension

Hours/Week: 40 hours 

Rate: $45-$50/hour (Hours over 40 will be paid at Time and a Half)

Contract Type: W-2

 
Scope of Services:

The Senior Accountant is a key member of the finance team supporting the consolidation and reporting of monthly results. This team member will work closely with all operational aspects of the business to support day-to-day and month end accounting functions with quality, accuracy and integrity. This individual will own delegated accounts and have an intimate understanding of the financial statements produced to ensure compliance. The role will be challenged to seek, propose, and drive process improvements across their related areas of responsibilities. The ideal candidate is someone who approaches tasks with an innovative, service-oriented mindset, and utilizes in-depth understanding of accounting principles, and company practices to achieve results.

 
Role, Responsibilities, and Deliverables:

• Prepares balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other financial reports.
• Analyzing trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations incurred to predict future revenues and expenses.
• Reports organization's finances to management, and offers suggestions about resource utilization, tax strategies, and assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
• Preparation and review of consolidated financial statements ensuring accuracy and completeness while identifying and researching trends/variances
• Prepares and reviews journal entries
• Deep understanding of financial accounting concepts
• Partners with internal customers to gain comprehensive business knowledge
• Conduct and document complex financial processes
• Interprets results autonomously using a variety of techniques, ranging from simple data aggregation via statistical analysis to complex data mining
• Understands data validation techniques
• Regularly ensures that reporting delivered to internal customers is accurate, rich in actionable content and useful
• Liaison with leaders and present financial reporting on various requests related to variances, cause of changes, or current business needs
• Support ad hoc analysis and special projects on an as needed basis
• Makes recommendations based on analysis and status of reserves, assets, and expenditures
• Reviews journal entries of junior staff ensuring accuracy
• Trains and mentors’ junior staff
• Owns, supports, analyzes, and prepares assigned account reconciliations
• Assists with financial and tax audits
• Aids in documenting and monitoring controls to support audit team
• Coordinates complex accounting projects and initiatives with other members of the finance team and/or other departments

 
Experience:

• Requires a bachelor's degree in accounting and 6-8 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
• Strong G/L accounting (working knowledge of debits and credit, creating journal entries, Heavy experience with G/L shop)
• Experienced with large company ERP systems
• Experience with SAP preferred
• Ability to work independently and communicate timely
• Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Performs a variety of tasks. Leads and directs the work of others. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department.