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Description If you're looking to build your career in accounting, there's currently a Staff Accountant position through Robert Half that you may want to check out. Based in the Parsippany, New Jersey region, this company offers an engaging and mulit-faceted long-term contract / temporary opportunity where effort is rewarded. The Staff Accountant plays a major role in the preparation of monthly and year-end closings, journal entries, fixed asset maintenance, bank reconciliation, and general ledger reconciliation. The majority of time spent will be dedicated to producing Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets. During the monthly close, many aspects of internal reporting will be your responsibility. You'll also communicate with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, take part in compliance, and look over schedules for the reporting processes.

What you get to do every single day

• Aid in implementation, maintenance and adherence to internal controls and accounting procedures ensuring compliance with GAAP

• Support fixed asset ledger, depreciation, and reconciliation

• Be responsible for account reconciliations including prepaid expenses, payroll, and other assignments

• Maintain monthly payment schedules

• Ad-hoc tasks and special projects, as needed

• Be a part of various initiatives spanning multiple departments

• Commentate on a wide variety of financial data and communicate it in a useful and understandable manner

• Play a role in the month end, quarter end and year end closing process including monthly financial close workbook preparation

• Prepare monthly balance sheet and income statement analyses for management reporting

• Complete month end close, journal entries, without supervision Requirements - BA/BS or equivalent in Accounting, Finance or Economics

• Competent with spreadsheets and databases

• Working knowledge of spreadsheets and databases

• Recent and relevant accounting experience

• Experience working in a dynamic and changing company environment a plus

• Takes action on items beyond formal job responsibilities

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

• Proven knowledge of Record Journal Entries

• Knowledge of month end closings

• Previous experience working with Excel Formulas

• Quality experience with accruals

• Experience with financial statement preparation

• Earlier work involving VLOOKUP

• Wide ranging experience with debits

• Practical knowledge of Monthly Accruals

• Well-founded grasp of Recurring Journal Entries

• Account reconciliation experience

• Experience with Prepare Journal Entries

• General familiarity with Prepaid Expense

• Comprehension of Microsoft Excel

• Good understanding of Pivot Table

• Solid understanding of bank reconciliations

• Skills in Excel VBA

• Posting Journal Entries experience preferred

• Dedication and requisite skills to meet critical business deadlines

• Skilled with ERP systems

• Strong organizational, written and verbal communication skills required

• High attention to detail and possesses excellent organizational and writing skills

Robert Half is the world’s first and largest specialized talent solutions firm that connects highly qualified job seekers to opportunities at great companies. We offer contract, temporary and permanent placement solutions for finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, and administrative and customer support roles.

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All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Benefits are available including medical, vision, dental, life and disability insurance. Employees hired for our FTEP Program are also eligible to enroll in our company’s 401(k) or deferred compensation plan (if eligible). FTEP employees also earn paid time off for vacation, personal needs, and sick time and paid holidays. The amount of Choice Time Off (CTO) received varies based on years of service and is pro-rated based on the hours worked per week. A new FTEP employee earns up to 13 days of CTO and up to 10 paid holidays per calendar year. Learn more at roberthalfbenefits.com/Resources.

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