Accountant II

3M HEALTHCARE; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

3M HEALTHCARE is seeking an experienced accounting professional to apply GAAP principles and manage a variety of accounting responsibilities autonomously. You will work with minimal supervision to ensure accuracy and compliance across the finance function.

You'll prepare and review journal entries, reconcile trial balances, post monthly entries, validate upload accuracy, and support audits with documented processes and summaries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field required.
• Minimum two years corporate accounting experience.
• Experience with SEC reporting and consolidation accounting.

Responsibilities

• Prepares, review, and reconcile journal entries, trial balances, schedules, and reports.
• Monthly, post journal entries and validate upload accuracy.
• Retains work papers supporting balance sheet detail.
• May prepare financial statements.
• Summarizes period-over-period variances and supports audit documentation.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Self-prioritization

Verbal and written communication

Time management

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Tools

Excel

MS Office Suite

ERP Accounting Software

Job description

Our associates celebrate lives. We celebrate our associates.

Apply GAAP accounting principles and corporate accounting experience to autonomously perform a variety of accounting responsibilities.

Performs works with general instructions and complying with company policies and procedures.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Prepares, review, and reconcile a variety of journal entries, trial balances, schedules, and reports.
• Monthly, post journal entries and validate upload accuracy.
• Retains work papers that support balance sheet detail.
• May prepare financial statements.
• Collaborates within team to understand the industry and accomplish quality work that meets expectations and deadlines.
• Performs work with general instructions and within company policies and procedures.
• Ability to research and resolve routine and non-routine work; escalates and discusses unusual issues with peers or management.
• Runs enterprise accounting reports as needed to support work.
• Validates report output.
• Peer Review documents for mathematical accuracy, working papers, and compliance with GAAP, processes, and company policies.
• Summarizes period over period variances, trends data, identifies data anomalies, researches disparities, validates backup paper work, resolves errors, and escalates issues to management.
• Drafts summaries and trends for power point presentations adding charts to illustrate conclusion.
• Gathers requested audit documentation and provides to staff member-coordinating audit.
• Document processes and procedures.
• Recommend efficiency and controls improvements.
• Learns project management skills, techniques, and skill application.
• Focus is small scope team projects.
• Develops timeframes, Gantt charts, and activity logs.
• Discusses assignment responsibilities with manager and communicates responsibilities to team members.
• Schedules and facilitates team project meetings ensuring on-time project delivery.
• Communicates and status project status and risks with management and stakeholders.
• May test software releases against test scripts.

Minimum Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related discipline
• Experience: At least two (2) years corporate accounting experience
• SEC reporting and consolidation accounting experience
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: Demonstrate knowledge of GAAP accounting principles; Demonstrate analytical thinking and analysis skills; Ability to self-prioritize work to meet expectations and deadlines; Proficiency with ERP Accounting & finance software; Advanced Excel skills; proficiency with MS Office Suite; Professional verbal and written communication skills.

Postal Code: 77019

Category (Portal Searching): Finance and Accounting

Job Location: US-TX - Houston