Senior Accountant

Role: Senior Accountant
Compensation: Up to $100,000 DOE
Location: Chicago, South Suburbs
Work Schedule: On-Site
Excellent Benefits: BCBS Medical, Free Dental and Vision, 401K with company match 

As a Senior Accountant, you will contribute to the overall success of the organization by improving processes and procedures, maintaining the general ledger, providing financial information and analyses as well as supporting other areas of the accounting function. Reporting to the Controller, the Senior Accountant will help ensure that policies and procedures are being followed and adequate controls are in place.
 
Responsibilities

• Record financial transactions on a timely and accurate basis in support of the company's monthly accounting close process.
• Execute month end general ledger procedures, roll-forwards and reconciliations as well as other recurring accounting processes in accordance with proper accounting controls.
• Prepare financial statements for review by accounting department management.
• Analyze and report financial information including identification of trends, patterns, variances and exceptions.
• Support the company's monthly management reporting and debt compliance processes through preparation of accurate and timely supporting schedules.
• Support accounting onboarding of acquired companies and related purchase accounting.
• Support and provide information associated with the financial statement audit and tax compliance.
• Support Treasury operations as required.
• Monitor and report Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) around processing performance and exceptions.
• Identify opportunities to improve process / systems effectiveness and work across functional teams to execute improvements and the ability to scale.
• Support operations by answering accounting and financial questions and providing analyses by researching and interpreting data.

Requirements

• B.S. Degree in Accounting.
• 3+ years experience in accounting, public accounting preferred.
• Familiar within a retail transaction environment preferred but not required
• Proficient in MS Excel.
• Possess effective technical knowledge related to work assignments.
• Excellent organizational, problem solving, critical/analytical thinking, written and oral. communication, interpersonal and computer skills
• Demonstrate understanding and proper application of accounting fundamentals.

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