Staff Accountant - Now Hiring

If you're an experienced accountant with a knack for accuracy, Robert Half has a terrific opportunity for you to check out at an organization in the Non-Profit industry. The responsibilities of the Staff Accountant include preparing journal entries, monthly and year-end closings, bank reconciliation, fixed asset maintenance, and general ledger reconciliation. During the monthly close, you'll have responsibility over many aspects of internal reporting. This position will also require you to participate in compliance, as well as communicate with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, and review schedules for the reporting processes. This position involves a good deal of time spent on producing Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets. The Elk Grove, California based company offering this multi-faceted, challenging long-term contract / temporary to hire opportunity provides a thriving environment where innovation is encouraged and effort is rewarded.

Key responsibilities

- Help with the implementation, maintenance and adherence to internal controls and accounting procedures ensuring compliance with GAAP

- Ad-hoc tasks and special projects, as needed

- Perform month end close, journal entries with minimum supervision

- Create monthly statement analysis to be used for management reportings

- Carry out fixed asset ledger, depreciation, and reconciliation

- Participate in various department-wide initiatives

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

- Assist in monthly financial close workbook preparation, including annual closing process

- Maintain capital lease and monthly payment schedules

- Analyze and coordinate a variety of financial data, and report it in a useful and understandable manner- Recent and relevant accounting experience

- Proven analytical skills - defining problems, collecting relevant data, drawing valid conclusions, and recommending improvement/corrective actions

- Efficient in ERP systems

- Proven knowledge of account reconciliation

- Comprehensive knowledge of Financial Statement

- General ledger experience preferred

- Experience with bank reconciliations

- Well-founded grasp of Accrued Expenses

- Expertise in financial statement preparation

- Strong familiarity with financial statements consolidation

- Mature organizational, written and verbal communication skills

- Takes action on items beyond formal job responsibilities

- BA/BS or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics

- Ability to complete multiple tasks and projects within deadlines

- Proficient with spreadsheets and databases

- Ability to work well in matrix organization and dealing with ambiguity

- Attentive, ability to work independently and prioritize tasks

- Ability to work within spreadsheets and databases