Staff Accountant

Career Crunch; Brambleton (VA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Crunch is seeking an accounting professional to ensure accuracy in financial records, support budgeting, and collaborate with auditors across a diverse portfolio of client projects.

You will apply GAAP, perform variance analysis, prepare journal entries, and generate reports using Excel and accounting software to guide strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• Job costing experience is required.
• Minimum 2 years accounting experience and GAAP knowledge.
• Proficiency with Excel and accounting software.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accuracy in financial records and reconciliations.
• Prepare journal entries and document transactions in the general ledger.
• Summarize assets, liabilities, and equity in balance sheets and P/L statements.
• Support monthly close and variance analysis for multiple projects.
• Collaborate with external auditors and provide documentation.
• Identify discrepancies and resolve issues promptly.
• Contribute to process improvements of accounting workflows.

Skills

Job costing

GAAP knowledge

Analytical thinking

Microsoft Excel

Accounting software

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Accounting software

Job description

Ensure accuracy in financial records, reconciliations, and compliance with relevant regulations and standards.

Conduct account analysis to identify discrepancies or errors and resolve issues promptly.

Perform budgeting support tasks, including variance analysis and financial data analysis using Excel data tools.

Handle confidential information with integrity while maintaining high standards of accuracy in all accounting functions.

Collaborate with external auditors during audits by providing necessary documentation and explanations of financial data.

Utilize your analytical skills to examine financial data, identify patterns, and generate meaningful reports that guide our business strategies.

Contribute monthly to the close of the financials on a wide array of companies in different industry sectors belonging to the diverse portfolio of client.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve common goals by fostering effective communication and creating effective strategies

Embrace the latest accounting software and technologies, continuously expanding your skills and adapting to industry advancements.

Compile and analyzes financial information to prepare journal entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, documenting business transactions, revenue recognition.

• Distributes expenditures, encumbrances, receipts, and receivables according to schedules.
• Utilize your analytical skills to examine financial data, identify patterns, and generate meaningful reports that guide our business strategies.
• Analyzes financial information detailing assets, liabilities, and capital, and prepares balance sheets, profit, and loss statements, and other reports to summarize and interpret current and projected company financial position for other managers.
• Determines proper handling of financial transactions and approves transactions within designated limits.
• Reviews, investigates, and corrects errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, documents, and reports.
• Makes recommendations regarding the accounting of reserves, assets, and expenditures.
• Supports process improvements related to accounting systems and workflows to enhance efficiency.

Required Qualifications

• Job costing experience is required.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting.
• Minimum of 2 years of accounting experience.
• Strong knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and accounting software.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail.
• Candidates must have experience tracking, analyzing, and reporting project costs, budgets, and variances.

Experience supporting project-based or construction-related accounting environments is highly preferred.