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Overview:
Our Client, a leading payments company, is searching for a Senior Staff Accountant in Plano, TX to join their team. The Senior Staff Accountant is part of the company's finance organization reporting to the Director of Accounting and Treasury. This role is a key one in the organization and provides support to and interacts frequently with team members across all areas of the company.
Responsibilities:
- Prepares and records asset, liability, revenue, and expense entries by compiling and analyzing account information
- Maintains and balances subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, and reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies.
- Ensures the integrity of accounting information by recording, verifying, consolidating, and entering transactions.
- Responsible for assisting the Accounting Manager with closing the financial statements in a timely and accurate manner.
- Responsible for processing general ledger entries and bank account reconciliations and resolving discrepancies, as necessary.
- Work with the Staff Accountant(s) to ensure that invoices are processed regularly, and the Accounts Payable function is managed effectively. Assist the Staff Accountants as necessary and provide training and support as required.
- Review and post daily bank entries to accounting system.
- Reconcile bank statements as required and resolve exceptions during the process.
- Process daily ACH merchant and partner entries through bank portal and post related general ledger entries.
- Assist Accounting Manager with Netsuite conversion tasks or testing during implementation to achieve successful results.
- Acquisition team member assisting with the integration efforts to coordinate streamlining of work into company's existing accounting processes and financial statements.
- Coordinate month-end close activities and required reports to finalize the finalize the financial statements.
- Perform Balance sheet and Income Statement account analysis for multiple entities.
- Review financial statements and identify account variances to review with management.
- Ensure compliance with GAAP.
- Assist with year-end close and audit fieldwork as required.
- Develop and implement accounting procedures by analyzing current procedures and recommending changes to gain departmental efficiencies.
- Provide cost savings recommendations based on analytical review of financial results.
- Support finance management in monitoring actual results to budget forecast.
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, or a bachelor's degree in business/finance (or equivalent education and experience) with emphasis in accounting, is required.
- The ideal candidate for this role is highly analytical, detail-oriented and collaborative.
- Ability to multitask and meet accounting deadlines
- Experience in the payments industry is helpful.
- Minimum of 8 years of accounting related experience required
- Experience with Netsuite (ERP) is preferred.
- Excellent communication and written/verbal presentation
- Experience with and solid understanding of US GAAP
- Experience with financial reporting requirements
- Must have the ability to develop and maintain strong relationships at all levels of the organization.
- id to Expert level MS Excel proficiency is required.
- Advanced computer skills and proficient in using Microsoft Suite (includes Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
