Sr. Accountant

Park Place Technologies in; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Park Place Technologies is seeking a Senior Accountant to support monthly, quarterly, and annual closes, and assist with global audits and tax compliance. The role involves preparing journal entries, reconciling challenging balance sheet accounts, and driving internal controls improvements across 30 legal entities.

You will support operations teams and integration efforts of acquired companies. The candidate should have 3–5 years of public accounting experience, strong accounting knowledge, and

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of public accounting experience in service-oriented industries.
• Proven knowledge of accounting cycle and internal controls.
• Hands-on with data analysis, financial reporting, and GL systems.
• Experience with month-end close, statutory and tax compliance.

Responsibilities

• Complete assigned month-end close activities, journal entries, and reconciliations.
• Prepare/finalize accounts for subsidiaries and holding companies.
• Conduct variance analysis and explain business drivers.
• Analyze Balance Sheet and Income Statement accounts.
• Support global audits and tax return preparation.
• Develop Excel models and reports for management.

Skills

Public accounting experience

D365FO/ Microsoft Dynamics

Financial analysis

Month-end close

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree

CPA preferred

Tools

Microsoft D365FO

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Senior Accountant is responsible for supporting the monthly, quarterly and annual financial closes, annual global and statutory audits, resolving issues by pro-actively reaching out and working with various departments, preparing journal entries for complex transactions, completing reconciliations of challenging balance sheet accounts, and reviewing reconciliations completed by Staff Accountants. This position is expected to independently drive financial projects to their conclusion, identify changes needed to improve internal controls, and support the consolidation process for 30 legal entities. This role will also be expected to support the operations teams and integration efforts of acquired companies.

What you'll be doing:

• Complete assigned month-end close activities by their due dates including journal entries and account reconciliations or analysis of results.
• Prepare/finalize accounts for assigned operating and holding company subsidiaries.
• Variance analysis and determining the business reasons driving them.
• Analyze Balance Sheet and Income Statement Accounts.
• Support compliance efforts including global/statutory audits and tax return report preparation.
• Generate and maintain Microsoft Excel models/spreadsheets, reconciliations or other reports.
• Assist with budgeting, cash flow analysis, contract review, and drive special project as needed.
• Provide guidance and direction to staff accountants as needed.
• Complete inventory analysis, reserve calculations, in-transit validations and month end / physical inventory reconciliations.
• Other duties as assigned.

What we're looking for:

• 3-5 years of public accounting experience within service-oriented industries.
• Proven business and operational knowledge.
• Ability to develop processes, recommend and implement process changes and improvement in internal controls.
• Must have the ability to drive complex projects or issues to conclusion (independently).
• Comprehensive knowledge of the accounting cycle.
• Track record of meeting deadlines.
• Hands on experience with Microsoft D365FO or Microsoft Dynamics.
• Prior experience with data analysis, financial analysis, financial reporting, general ledger systems, month-end close, statutory and tax compliance, and Microsoft Office.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with mergers/acquisitions and integrations, foreign currency and intercompany eliminations is desirable.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• CPA certification is preferred.

Travel:

• <10%

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Park Place Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V.

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