Senior Accountant
Cypress, TX - USA
Job Summary
GHJ Search & Staffing is partnering with an established international organization to identify a Senior Accountant for its growing accounting team in Cypress CA.
This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on accounting professional who enjoys working across the full accounting cycle and wants exposure to a product/inventory-driven environment. The Senior Accountant will play an important role in month-end close general ledger accounting account reconciliations AP/AR tax compliance financial reporting and process improvement.
The organization offers a stable collaborative environment with significant opportunity for professional growth.
- Perform month-end quarter-end and year-end close activities including journal entries accruals and account reconciliations
- Reconcile general ledger and balance sheet accounts and investigate discrepancies
- Support and review Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable activities
- Assist with sales/use tax and property tax reporting and reconciliations
- Maintain fixed asset records depreciation schedules and related reconciliations
- Support financial reporting variance analysis and management reporting
- Assist with inventory accounting including inventory reconciliations cycle/physical counts and related analysis
- Partner with operations and other departments to resolve accounting issues and improve reporting accuracy
- Support external audits and provide schedules and supporting documentation
- Identify opportunities to streamline automate and improve accounting processes
- Assist with ERP enhancements and other accounting projects
- Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance or related field
- Approximately 5 years of progressive corporate accounting experience
- Strong hands-on experience with month-end close general ledger accounting journal entries and account reconciliations
- Experience working with AP and AR
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP
- Strong Excel skills
- Detail-oriented with the ability to investigate discrepancies and independently solve accounting issues
- Comfortable working in a hands-on deadline-driven accounting environment
- Experience within manufacturing distribution consumer products inventory or another product-based environment
- Sales/use tax and/or property tax experience
- Inventory or cost accounting exposure
- ERP experience particularly JDE or Oracle
- Experience improving or automating accounting processes
- CPA or prior public accounting experience
- Multi-currency or international accounting exposure
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
GHJ is a national advisory, accounting and tax firm that partners with clients to help grow their businesses.