General Ledger Accountant

Design, Marketing
New York
October 19, 2024
Full Time

Job Overview

  • Date Posted
    October 19, 2024
  • Location
    New York
  • Expiration date
    May 5, 2026
  • Experience
    4 Year
  • Gender
    Both
  • Qualification
    Master’s Degree
  • Career Level
    Student

Job Description

As a General Ledger Accountant, you will play a crucial role in supporting the Controller and Director of Accounting by ensuring the accuracy of our financial records. Your primary responsibilities will include reconciling general ledger transactions, maintaining account balances, and performing month-end closing duties. You will also assist with internal and external audits, support periodic physical inventory counts, and participate in the budgeting and forecasting processes. This hybrid role requires you to be in the office three times a week, allowing for collaboration with your team while also providing flexibility.

Key Responsibilities

  • General Ledger Reconciliation: General Ledger Accountant You will perform thorough account analyses to ensure that journal entries and ending balances are accurate. Regular critiques and reconciliations of sub-ledger debts can be important to validate that payments and clearing files are efficiently implemented to corresponding accruals.
  • Transaction Management: Regularly carry out manual clearing of fashionable ledger transactions to preserve accurate statistics of open objects. You will compare inner monetary statements at the general ledger degree to become aware of capability inaccuracies and take corrective movement as wished.
  • Journal Entries: General Ledger Accountant Timely posting of mag entries to record accruals, deferrals, reclassifications, and corrections can be an important part of your characteristic, helping the month-surrender, vicinity-surrender, and 12 months-stop methods.
  • Audit Coordination: You will acquire assisting documentation and coordinate record guidance for inner and outside auditors. Responding to auditor queries and collaborating with the Controller may be key to ensuring compliance and accuracy.
  • Inventory Support: General Ledger Accountant Participate in periodic physical stock counts by using support with coordination, offering administrative useful resources, and performing variance assessment to ensure correct reporting.
  • Ad-Hoc Reporting: General Ledger Accountant Prepare ad-hoc critiques and analyses as needed to assist preference-making processes within the finance crew.

Qualifications

To be taken into consideration for this function, applicants have to personal the subsequent qualifications:

  • Experience: A minimum of 5-10 years of progressively accountable accounting enjoy in an SAP environment is needed.
  • Education: An undergraduate degree in Business or a related area is vital, along aspect a CPA designation (or in development).
  • Language Proficiency: Proficiency in English, each spoken and written, is needed. Fluency in French is taken into consideration as an asset.
  • Technical Skills: Strong accounting information and proficiency with accounting systems, as well as Microsoft Office, in particular Excel, are important. You need to have robust analytical and organizational abilities, with an eager interest in detail.
  • Interpersonal Skills: Effective verbal exchange and interpersonal competencies are vital, as you will collaborate with numerous internal departments and outdoor auditors.
  • Team Player: A robust capability to art work as a part of a group, manipulate time effectively, and handle stress in quick-paced surroundings is vital.

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