General Accountant

Job Title: General Accountant

Job Location: Highland IL

Job Type: FullTime.

Overview: This role provides diverse exposure to various accounting functions within the company involving daily monthly and annual finance department processes such as closings budgeting physical inventory tax accounts receivable accounts payable fixed assets and cost accounting. Primary tasks include managing business taxes (property sales/use) and preparing data analysis for thirdparty CPA tax return preparation.

Summary: The position offers broad exposure to company accounting functions encompassing monthly and annual closings budgeting physical inventory and potentially payroll tax and cost accounting functions.

Duties:

• Prepare and process specific monthly and annual financial close processes accurately and promptly. This may involve monthly financial statement preparation for distribution to ownership and senior management.
• Provide detailed account and activity analysis for certain general ledger journal entries.
• Maintain monthly analysis and reconciliations for the yearend financial close process.
• Prepare and maintain audit schedules for yearend audit procedures.
• Participate in the budget process preparing relevant schedules and analysis.
• Ensure accurate and timely recording and classification of certain general ledger transactions.
• Additional responsibilities may include tracking and maintaining fixed assets cost accounting tasks (analyzing cost of sales variances profitability analysis product mix analysis etc.) and preparations/filings of corporate tax returns.
• Support International divisions with monthly close.
• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree in Accounting or related Business field.
• Preferred minimum of one year of experience.
• Ability to apply broad knowledge of accounting principles to various corporate accounting activities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office; experience with Oracle software is a plus.
• Willingness to travel as needed.

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