Lease Accounting Clerk - Room for Advancement

Are you looking to contribute your skills at a well-respected organization as an Accounting Clerk? Robert Half is in need of an Accounting Clerk for a company in the Retail industry who is experienced in supporting a department. The Accounting Clerk will match invoices to purchase orders/ vouchers, data entry, and assist with Accounts Payable (A/P) and Accounts Receivable (A/R). We offer a dynamic, team-oriented workspace, great benefits, and future career advancement opportunity. This is a long-term contract / temporary to hire position located in the Saint Louis, Missouri area.

Your responsibilities in this role

- Support Accounts Receivable: apply cash receipt, help with collection of past due balance, and process daily invoices/credit

- Put together statements and reports that require utilization of a variety of sources

- Overall accounting: help with G/L account reconciliation and month-end closing, other ad hoc projects

- Support Accounts Payable: A/P invoice matching & filing, vendor invoices and disbursement filing

- Circulate financial information to journals and ledgers

- Patch up discrepancies by checking all possible sources of disagreement, reconstructing probable actions, and recognizing the effect on other accounts; prepare correction documents as required

- Group documents that require knowledge in determining proper classification of accounting codes and expenditure codes- AA or BS/BA in Accounting or related field preferred

- Excellent data entry skills

- Accounts Payable (AP) experience required

- Solid understanding of journal entries

- Spreadsheet and ERP system experience is a plus

- Ability to multitask effectively