Senior Accountant

Raymond James Financial, Inc.; Saint Petersburg (FL); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Raymond James Financial, Inc. is seeking an experienced accountant to prepare journal entries, maintain general ledgers, and produce financial statements, budgets, and reports.

The role will involve allocating costs across entities and analyzing the impact on financials. The candidate should have strong knowledge of GAAP, accounting software, and the ability to identify process improvements while ensuring accuracy and timely closes.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of GAAP and accounting principles.
• Experience applying cost allocation to financial statements.
• Ability to review and analyze financial statements and reports.

Responsibilities

• Prepare journal entries, ledgers, financial statements, budgets and reports using accounting software.
• Allocate costs to entities and analyze impact on financial statements.
• Investigate irregular transactions and GAAP implications.
• Review property-level financials and inputs into accounting systems.

Skills

GAAP knowledge

Cost allocation concepts

Financial statement analysis

Journal entries and general ledger

Accounting procedures/processes

Communication skills

Training others

Tools

Accounting software packages

Job description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Uses accounting software to prepare journal entries, general ledgers, financial statements, budgets and reports.

• Allocates costs to individual organizational entities and analyzes the impact of cost allocation on financial statements.

• Researches and makes recommendations to resolve unusual or irregular transactions.

• Reviews property level financials and inputs into accounting software.

• Reconciles general ledger accounts, prepares analyses and completes other monthly general ledger closing procedures.

• Prepares and reviews reports of financial information for management.

• Responds to internal/external auditor inquiries and requests.

• Research issues regarding application of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to allocating costs and preparing financial statements.

• Identifies and recommends process improvements to increase efficiency in processing or analyzing financial information.

• Assists in training others.

• Resolves complex accounting problems.

• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Knowledge of

• Advanced accounting concepts, practices and procedures.

• Accounting software packages.

• Cost allocation concepts and practices.

• Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

Skill in

• Reviewing, interpreting and analyzing financial statements.

• Resolving unusual transaction and accounting discrepancies.

• Preparing financial statements, budgets and management reports.

• Allocating costs and evaluating the impact on financial statements.

• Preparing and posting journal entries.

• Researching GAAP issues.

• Operating standard office equipment and using required software applications to produce correspondence, reports, electronic communication, spreadsheets and complex databases.

Ability to

• Implement changes to standard procedures when required by specific situations and circumstances.

• Make independent decisions and solve more complex accounting problems.

• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with all organizational levels.

• Explain or clarify financial information to all levels of management.

• Provide training to others.

• Organize, manage and track multiple detailed tasks and assignments with frequently changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment.

• Provide a high level of customer service.