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Robert Half Staff Accountant in Mclean, Virginia
Description
There is an opportunity with a terrific company for a full-time Staff Accountant. This position can offer you strong compensation, excellent benefits, and career advancement. Ambitious and detail-oriented candidates will be interested in Robert Half's opportunity to join a thriving, fast-paced company that recognizes talent and effort, as a Staff Accountant. Based in the Mclean, Virginia area, this role is a career-building, multi-faceted opportunity to work for a company that recognizes and rewards hard work. This position is for candidates with the ability to prepare journal entries, monthly and year-end closings, bank reconciliation, fixed asset maintenance, and general ledger reconciliation and be responsible for many aspects of internal reporting during the monthly close. If you're looking for work where you will participate in compliance, interact with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, and review schedules reporting processes, this role might be right for you. You will be preferred for this role if you have a complex understanding of Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets.
Key responsibilities
Oversee depreciation, fixed asset ledgers, and reconciliation
Regular maintenance and reconciliation of journal entries
Assist with the month end, quarter end and year end closing process by preparing monthly financial close workbooks
Prepare monthly balance sheet and income statement analyses for management reporting
Ad hoc reporting and performing special projects upon request
Produce complex journal entries and account reconciliations which include, but are not limited to, cash, prepaid expenses, and payroll
Become well-versed in month end balance sheet account reconciliations
Conduct month end close and compose journal entries with minimal supervision
Maintain, implement, and adhere to internal controls. Also ensure that accounting procedures comply with GAAP
Handle intercompany transactions, billings, and reconciliation
Organize schedules for monthly payments and capital lease
Coordinate and analyze a variety of financial data, then report it in a way that is useful and understandable
Partake in various department-wide initiatives
Requirements
BA/BS or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics
3+ years of recent and relevant accounting experience
Competent with spreadsheets and databases
Account reconciliation experience
Bank Account Reconciliation experience highly desired
Accounts Payable (AP) experience preferred
Comprehensive knowledge of Accounts Receivable (AR)
Strong organizational skills and a proven ability to meet deadlines
Outstanding organizational, written and verbal communication skills required
Ability to work well in matrix organization and dealing with ambiguity
Proficient in ERP systems
Spreadsheet and database capabilities
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