Senior Accountant
Employment Type: Full-Time
Minimum Experience: 5 years
Location: Washington, D.C
Description
We are seeking a full time employee to prepare and analyze financial statements and reports, validating appropriate disclosures and developing supplemental content for management and external stakeholders such as auditors, tax preparers, and government agencies. This senior role will provide direction and coaching to junior staff and new hires.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s (Required)
- US Work Authorization (Required)
- Corporate Accounting: 5 years (Required)
Benefits Include:
- Health, dental, and vision
- 401(k) and Profit Sharing
- Bonus packages
- Paid holidays and PTO
- Life insurance
- Generous professional development benefits
- Short & Long-term disability
- And more!
Position Responsibilities:
- Reviewing and preparing journal entries and other accounting transactions while ensuring general activity is processed following GAAP and other regulatory requirements. Responsible for processing employee time and expenses
- Preparing monthly financial statements, footnotes, and associated reconciliations
- Drafting, validating, and adhering to standard operating procedures as well as identifying gaps, making recommendations, and presenting solutions to address internal control weaknesses
- Researching and correcting errors and anomalies identified in various financial reports
- Making presentations to various levels of personnel
- Providing reviews of financial information for accuracy and compliance with standards
- Managing the list of items to be provided during the annual audit and assisting with any corrective action plans
- Supporting efforts to review and analyze related business processes and recommending new and innovative solutions
- Preparing, reviewing, submitting, and briefing on various ad-hoc reports, summaries, and other information to members of management, both internally and client representatives
- Supervising the work of the Staff Accountant including semi-monthly payroll preparation, monthly client invoicing and bill payments
Position Duties:
- Monitor the performance and capacity, availability and recoverability of systems;
- Schedule and perform modification, configuration and application testing/installation of new hardware, operating systems and peripherals;
- Install new software releases and system upgrades, evaluate and install patches, and resolve software-related problems;
- Maintain data files and monitor system configuration to ensure data integrity; maintain and test/confirm regular data backups;
- System vulnerability assessment and management; Response to security threats, attacks, and similar events; Development of threat prevention strategies
- Maintain and support security measures and make changes to address the threats and exposures that may arise;
- Responsible for cybersecurity and systems training for users;
- Create/deactivate accounts and configure hardware as part of on-boarding/off-boarding process; Account management, network rights/permissions, access network shares, password resets;
- Manage electronic mail credentials, access and use (Office 365 administration);
- Printer setup and deployment;
- Provide primary interface with vendor support service groups or provides internal analysis and support to ensure appropriate notification during outages or periods of degraded system performance.
- Follow up on outstanding requests and ensure timely resolution;
- Show initiative in providing great customer support, guiding and troubleshooting with people of varied technological levels;
- Responsible for collecting IT inventory, decommissioning unused assets, setting up, configuring, imaging, and deploying PCs, laptops, printers, and other desktop IT assets, performing data transfers, recovery, and setup, assisting end users, and managing user accounts;
- Develop new strategies and IT procedures to increase efficiency, enhance workflow, and improve customer satisfaction;
- Develop and monitor policies and standards related to the use of computing resources, performance, disaster recovery and project planning;
- Manage Information Technology related budget and expenses.
Candidate Requirements:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance, with 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in accounting and financial management.
- Advanced Knowledge of QuickBooks Pro. Proficient in the use of the MS Office suite, specifically, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Ability to work well in a team environment.
- Experience in Federal Financial reporting. Federal Accounting experience is preferred but not required.
- Ability to occasionally work extra hours to meet deadlines
