Staff Accountant

GATX Corporation; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 59,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated accounting professional to join their dynamic and collaborative team in a hybrid role. This position offers the opportunity to engage in various accounting functions, including transaction recording, financial reporting, and compliance with accounting policies. With a strong emphasis on employee empowerment and a supportive work environment, this role allows you to make a significant impact from day one. Join a company recognized as one of Chicago's Top Workplaces and take your career to the next level in a thriving organization that values its people.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of accounting experience required.
• Solid understanding of basic accounting and associated skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure monthly activities are recorded as per accounting policies.
• Prepare monthly trend analysis reports and assist in financial reporting.
• Reconcile assigned balance sheet accounts monthly.

Skills

Accounting Principles

Excel

Microsoft Office

SAP

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance

CPA or working towards CPA

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

Job description

Overview

Founded in 1898 and headquartered in Chicago, IL, GATX Corporation (NYSE: GATX) is an industry leader with 125+ years of success—success that is powered by our people. We are proud of our high-performance culture, hard-working and enthusiastic management team, and beautiful office space in the Willis Tower.

At GATX, we hire the best and offer our employees a dynamic, energetic, collaborative environment to enable them to make an impact from day one. Enjoy the perks and benefits of a global company with the close-knit culture and community of a much smaller one. In the same way we strive to empower our customers to propel the world forward, we are dedicated to providing our people with the tools and resources they need to move forward in their careers. And, thanks to our employees, in 2023 we were named one of Chicago’s Top Workplaces by the Chicago Tribune for the fourth time!

This HYBRID position is responsible for performing general accounting functions for GATX’s Rail North America and Corporate segments. This includes the accurate and timely recording of transactions, assisting in maintaining the integrity of the general ledger and applicable subledgers and preparation of monthly reporting requirements.

Responsibilities

• Ensure monthly activities are recorded in accordance with GATX accounting policies and prepare relevant journal entries for areas including recording and tracking of accrued expenses, work in process (WIP), revenue accruals, and prepaid expenses, amongst others.
• Prepare monthly trend analysis reports
• Assist in the preparation of the monthly and quarterly reporting package by investigating and documenting income statement and balance sheet variances and statement of cash flows.
• Display a knowledge of intercompany processes and effectively ensure all intercompany transactions are appropriately offset
• Prepare quarterly and annual supporting schedules as required for financial reporting department in accordance with 10-Q and 10-K disclosure requirements
• Assist with internal and external audit requests.
• Assist in maintaining an effective control environment by executing controls to ensure compliance with established accounting policies
• Reconcile assigned balance sheet accounts monthly
• Effectively document reconciliations and other supporting schedules to enable reviewers to quickly understand and assess them
• Understand the full end to end process for recording transactions and develop and propose process improvements
• Perform analysis of balance sheet accounts to enable others to understand the nature of transactions and key drivers of activity
• Perform adhoc requests and special projects as requested, such as documentation of business processes, process improvement recommendations

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelors Degree in Accounting or Finance required

CPA or working towards one's is desired

2-4 years of accounting experience

Knowledge:

Solid understanding of basic accounting and associated accounting skillsExcel and Microsoft Office products SAP experience.

Posting Duration

This posting will remain open until the role is filled.As of the post date, the salary range for this position is:

Min

USD $59,600.00/Yr.

Max

USD $80,000.00/Yr.This role may be eligible to participate in the Company’s short-term incentive plan, the details of which will be provided to the applicant upon hire.This range is a reasonable estimate and takes into account several factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including, but not limited to, geographic location, skill set, experience, education, training, internal equity, and other business needs.