Staff Accountant

Are you an experienced accountant with a keen eye for accuracy? Robert Half has an exciting opportunity at a rapidly-growing organization in the for a Staff Accountant. The company offering this terrific long-term contract / temporary to hire opportunity is based in the West Chester, Ohio region and provides rewards for hard work. The duties of Staff Accountant include fixed asset maintenance, bank reconciliation, general ledger reconciliation, journal entries, and the preparation of monthly and year-end closings. This position is very involved as it will produce Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets. During the monthly close, you will be responsible for many aspects of internal reporting. In addition, you will take part in compliance, communicate with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, and review schedules for the reporting processes.

What you get to do every single day

- Support capital lease and monthly payment schedules

- Report on a wide variety of financial data and communicate it in a useful and understandable manner

- Create monthly statement analysis to be used for management reportings

- Execute month end close, journal entries, with little supervision

- Help with the implementation, maintenance and adherence to internal controls and accounting procedures ensuring compliance with GAAP

- Ad-hoc reporting and special projects, as needed

- Carry out fixed asset ledger, depreciation, and reconciliation

- Maintain intricate journal entries and account reconciliations including but not limited to cash, prepaid expenses and payroll

- Participate in the month end, quarter end and year end closing process including monthly financial close workbook preparation

- Be a part of various department-wide initiatives

- Current and relevant ERP system experience

- Seizes opportunities to produce results without direct supervision

- 2+ years of recent and relevant accounting experience

- Ability to handle multiple projects within strict deadlines

- BA/BS or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics

- Competent with spreadsheets and databases

- Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft Excel

- Payroll experience

- Deep understanding of general ledger

- Command of journal entries

- Foundational knowledge in account reconciliation

- Bank reconciliations experience highly desired

- Adeptness in Financial Statement

- Remarkable analytical, quantitative and social skills

- Ability to work in a dynamic and changing environment

- High attention to detail and possesses excellent organizational and writing skills

- Fully formed organizational, written and verbal communication skills

- Spreadsheet and database capabilities