Staff Accountant

Ref ID: 02670-0012612711

Classification: Staff Accountant

Compensation: $25.00 to $30.00 hourly

If you're looking to build your career in accounting, there's currently a Staff Accountant position through Robert Half that you may want to check out. Based in the Bridgewater, New Jersey area, this exciting long-term contract / consulting opportunity is set in an engaging work place where hard work is rewarded. 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 be in charge of communicating with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, playing an active role in compliance, and looking over schedules for the reporting processes.

What you get to do every day

- Support capital lease and monthly payment schedules

- Participate in various initiatives spanning multiple departments

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

- Take part the in implementation and adherence to internal controls and accounting procedures, ensuring compliance with GAAP

- Manage the design and creation of balance sheet analysis and communicate reports to management

- Carry out fixed asset ledger, depreciation, and reconciliation

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

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

- Partake in annual closing processes

- Ad-hoc reporting and special projects, as requested