Staff Accountant

Staff Accountant at Discover Staffing Staff Accountant at Discover Staffing in Marietta, Georgia Posted in about 4 hours ago.

Type:

full-time

Job Description:

Summary:

The purpose of this position is to apply principles of accounting to analyze financial information and prepare financial reports by performing the following duties. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties as assigned. Controls daily cash management, including processing of wire transfers and reviewing daily cash activity. Deals directly with banks for all banking problems and issues related to our accounts. Prepare and deposit checks to the depository bank account timely each month, recording the deposit and attaching support. Prepares journal entries for monthly closing of the general ledger. Uses professional experience in preparing schedules that are used in the preparation of these entries. Prepares analysis of general ledger accounts, including bank reconciliations, fixed asset schedules, and inter-company receivables and payables. Reviews, investigates, and makes the necessary adjustments to accounts as needed. Generate monthly tax entry once the trial balance has been reviewed and approved for month. Generates monthly departmental trial balance and prepares analysis of the monthly trial balance, month-over-month, to determine if expenses were coded to the departments and general ledger accounts correctly. Prepare monthly and quarterly financial reports in Stravis (financial reporting package), which is then sent to our parent company. This person uses judgment and professional skill in preparing information for this report. Generates, reviews and distributes departmental budget to actual profit and loss statements to each department head timely each month. Prepares the annual budget worksheets and consolidates budgets from other departments. Additionally, uploads budget data into SAP and Stravis both on a consolidated basis and on a month-by-month basis. Prepares annual audit requests as well as annual tax packages used in the preparation of the financial statements and tax returns. Prepares government census reports. Assists in the preparation and maintenance of corporate procedures manual. Prepares and implements various programs and applications and makes recommendations on how to improve our business process and reporting accuracy.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This job has no direct supervisory responsibilities. Education and/or

Experience:

Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university plus three to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Public or corporate accounting experience a must.

Certificates and Licenses:

CPA preferred but not necessary