Senior Accountant
Description
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Produce accurate, timely, recurring month-end reports for locations, lines of business, and corporate functions.
- Identify and address questionable data within the assigned reports to validate accuracy.
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of the firm’s data flow and overall processes.
- Conduct a meticulous analysis of consolidated financials as well as individual offices, departments, and profit/cost centers to ensure accuracy.
- Identify and propose process improvements in collaboration with the Supervisor.
- Execute monthly bank reconciliations, promptly addressing any discrepancies in the bank reconciliations timely by collaborating with Finance team members and communicating unresolved items to the supervisor.
- Identify and review potential fraudulent checks/transactions for the Accounts Payable Manager’s review.
- Rectify errors in the check registers and specific general ledger accounts in collaboration with team members.
- Maintain meticulous records for journal entries, reconciliations, monthly reports, and IOLTA accounts.
- Develop and execute complex firm-wide allocations for month-end processes.
- Prepare and input routine recurring general ledger entries.
- Propose non-routine, complex GL entries for the Supervisor’s consideration.
- Generate daily cash application reports for timely review by the Supervisor.
- Facilitate training for team members on tasks, ensuring proper backup procedures and fostering the development of new team members.
- Prepare PBC items for the year-end annual review conducted by independent accounting firm.
- Prepare and analyze assigned annual budgets for the Finance department and other departments as needed.
- Scrutinize the annual budget, pinpointing discrepancies between actual expenses and budget.
- Assist the CFO by preparing partner draw and distribution reports, as well as setting up payments.
- Update the monthly debt covenant testing schedule for the CFO.
- Assist the Manager of Financial Reporting with insurance renewals.
- Prepare quarterly and annual tax support schedules used for various tax filings throughout the year.
- Handle annual state license and registration renewals, as well as bar registrations.
- Prepare US Census Bureau surveys.
- Prioritize responsibilities to meet strict deadlines.
SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Undertake additional duties and projects as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 6 years of increasing responsibilities in the accounting department preferably in the legal or professional services industry
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
- Comprehensive knowledge of accounting and finance concepts as well as ERP systems.
- High proficiency with advanced MS Excel functionality to work efficiently with large amounts of data with multiple sources.
- Excellent written, verbal, quantitative, collaborative, and organized.
- High proficiency with advanced MS Excel functionality to work efficiently with large amounts of data with multiple sources.
- Experience with Aderant, Intellistat, and Fixed Assets software a plus.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and non-uniform workloads.
- Motivated and well-organized individual with a robust work ethic.
- Possesses strong organizational skills, customer service orientation, attention to detail, and a collaborative team spirit.
- Demonstrates the capacity to work independently, delivering timely and accurate results even with limited supervision.
- Flexible availability for overtime work, particularly during year-end and Q1 periods.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Able to sit and work at a computer keyboard for extended periods of time.
Able to stoop, kneel, bend at the waist and reach on a daily basis.
Able to perform general office administrative activities: copying, filing, delivering and using the telephone.
Able to lift and move up to 25 pounds occasionally.
Regular and on-time attendance.
Must be able to prioritized, schedule and complete testing required for multiple applications with overlapping schedules.
A certain degree of creativity and flexibility is required.
Hours may exceed 40 hours per week.
Occasional travel by conventional means including aircraft, motor vehicle and the like within the region and to other locations as required.
Note: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or qualifications associated with this job.
Berry Appleman & Leiden is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of BAL to ensure an equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, alienage or citizenship status, marital status, creed, genetic predisposition or carrier status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law. BAL prohibits and will not tolerate any such discrimination or harassment.
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