Accounting Specialist

If you're looking for full-time Staff Accountant work, Robert Half has an opportunity for you to become a critical part of an innovative company. If you are driven by a challenging work environment with many components, you will thrive in this role. This Staff Accountant position is for candidates who can prepare journal entries, monthly and year-end closings, bank reconciliation, fixed asset maintenance, and general ledger reconciliation. The ideal candidate for this position can perform internal reporting during the monthly close, participate in compliance, interact with our external auditors for quarterly reviews and annual audits, and review schedules reporting processes. This Hazel Park, Michigan area-based position is a challenging, multi-faceted opportunity to work for a company that recognizes and rewards hard work. You might be our ideal candidate, if you are a detail-oriented and analytical thinker with a talent for creating Financial Statements, Cash Flow projections, and Budgets.

How you will make an impact

- Support the month end, quarter end and year end closing process, which includes monthly financial close workbook preparation

- Survey and organize various financial data, reporting it in a useful and understandable manner

- In-depth knowledge of reconciling month end balance sheet accounts

- Produce journal entries and perform the month end close under minimal supervision

- Produce analyses for monthly balance sheets and income statements for reporting by management

- Prepare journal entries and account reconciliations which include, but are not limited to, cash, prepaid expenses, and payroll

- Arrange schedules for capital lease and monthly payments

- Partake in a variety of department-wide initiatives

- Handle intercompany transactions, billings, and reconciliation

- Special projects and impromptu reporting, upon request

- Oversee depreciation, fixed asset ledgers, and reconciliation

- Periodic maintenance and reconciliation of journal entries

- Maintain, implement, and adhere to internal controls. Also ensure that accounting procedures comply with GAAP