Senior Accountant

S J Gorowitz Accounting & Tax; Georgia; On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

SJ Gorowitz Accounting & Tax Services, P.C. in Alpharetta, GA is seeking a Senior Accountant with 2+ years in public accounting. The role offers exposure to the entire accounting and tax cycle, including reconciliations, tax preparation, and IRS notice analysis, in a collaborative team environment.

The ideal candidate demonstrates strong QuickBooks proficiency, Excel skills, and a proactive work ethic, with opportunities for professional growth within a supportive firm culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting is required.
• 2+ years current experience in a public accounting firm.
• Experience with QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online.
• Strong MS Office skills (Excel, Word, Outlook).
• Master's degree and/or CPA preferred.
• Ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent references.

Responsibilities

• Perform reconciliations, adjust general journal entries, analyze accounts, depreciation, and trial balance to prepare tax returns.
• Prepare financial statements.
• Prepare personal and corporate tax returns.
• Analyze IRS notices and draft responses.
• Contribute to client service with attentive service.

Skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Deadline driven

Team player

Multi-tasking

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Master's degree and/or CPA preferred

Tools

QuickBooks Desktop

QuickBooks Online

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Job Description

We're Hiring: Senior Accountant

SJ Gorowitz Accounting & Tax Services, P.C. is an award winning, boutique, CPA firm located in Alpharetta, GA supporting expanding and emerging businesses and their owners. We are proud to have been recognized as the Best of North Atlanta, CPA category, in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020! This is not your typical CPA firm. We genuinely enjoy one another and our clients and believe that the best work gets done in a supportive, happy work environment.

We are seeking a Senior Accountant, who enjoys collaboration and wants an opportunity to work in a professional CPA firm environment with diverse clientele. If you are a driven and enthusiastic professional with three years minimum current experience in public accounting, joining the SJG team is a great opportunity to excel and continue your growth.

Why should you join our team?

• Stability: We've been in business since 1991
• Teamwork: Do your best work in a collaborative, supportive, positive work environment
• Professionalism: Engage with clients who value our honesty, dedication and experience
• Connections: Build genuine personal relationships with our people, partners and clients
• Winning: Be part of a team that celebrates the successes of our clients and team
• Empowerment: Be entrusted to seek real solutions to challenges, sticky situations or difficult issues
• Continuous Learning: Take advantage of continued education on critical issues impacting accounting and tax

Senior Accountant - Job Description

This is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic, recent accounting graduate with 2+ years of work experience in a public accounting firm. This is an onsite position, ideal for someone who wants to receive broad exposure to the entire accounting and tax cycle. The candidate must be experienced in QuickBooks Desktop, QuickBooks Online and Microsoft Excel.

This individual is a proactive self-starter with a strong work ethic, a desire to grow professionally and the ability to work with minimum supervision, meet deadlines and adjust to multiple work demands. The selected candidate will be working in a challenging and motivating team environment for a company that is known for the high quality and service they provide to their clients and community.

This individual is well-spoken, polished, professional in manner and appearance, detail oriented with multi-tasking ability, strong work ethic, a desire to grow professionally and be a team player.

Essential Functions

• Performing accounting functions to include: reconciliations, recording and adjusting general journal entries, analyzing accounts, fixed assets and depreciation and completing trial balance to prepare tax returns
• Preparing financial statements
• Preparing personal and corporate tax returns
• Analyzing IRS notices and drafting responses
• Contributing to the client service team by providing attentive service
• Preparing sales tax returns
• Preparing business personal property tax returns
• Preparing Forms 1096 and 1099

Required Experience / Education

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting
• Master's Degree and or CPA preferred
• 2+ years current experience in a public accounting firm
• QuickBooks experience
• Payroll tax, sales tax and income tax preparation experience
• Strong computer and technical skills including, Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word and Outlook)
• At least one year of experience using computerized tax preparation and tax research software
• Little to no travel required

Additional Qualifications

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Eagerness to learn and work in a team-oriented environment
• Ability to meet deadlines and work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to multi-task, think independently and problem solve
• Excellent references

What makes us an Employer of Choice?

Being part of the firm and having a voice

• Involvement in strategy sessions that are crucial to the growth of the firm
• Participation in annual operational efficiencies meeting
• Tax season debriefs
• Two deep-dive strategy sessions each year
• Personalized/Individual development plan
• Assessing professional strengths and opportunities for professional development
• Creating individual 90-day goals and supporting those efforts with additional resources

Work-life balance

• We go hard at our work during the day while still being able to pursue outside