Sr. Accountant

There's a career-building opportunity for an experienced Senior Accountant to join an innovative Higher Education company in a permanent role in the TUSKEGEE, Alabama area. As a Senior Accountant, you will be responsible for producing financial statement preparation and consolidation, account analysis and reconciliations, cash flow analysis, budgets and forecasting, audit preparation, and internal control maintenance and regulatory reporting. This position offers a great long-term growth potential, including a strong compensation and benefits package for the candidate. We are seeking an individual with strong analytical skills that excels working in a challenging and fast-paced work environment while contributing to the continued success of the firm. This Senior Accountant role is with a company in the Higher Education field and is located in Tuskegee, Alabama.

What you get to do every single day

- Aid in coordinating quarterly reviews and testing with internal and external auditors

- Present Balance Sheet account reconciliations

- Manage Ad-hoc projects as necessary

- Provide analysis on financial results (trends, performance metrics, benchmarks)

- Produce error-free monthly accounting close procedures and deliverables such as journal entries, reconciliations, reports in compliance with GAAP

- Dedication to continuously improve the automation of the accounting and reporting process

- Apply oneself to various department-wide initiatives

- Uphold company standards when working with business partners to ensure compliance with corporate accounting policies, procedures and controls; while also providing support on special requests when required

- Allocate and prepare monthly consolidated P& L and Balance Sheet flux analysis reports for management- Comfortable working in a changing and dynamic environment

- Detailed and have the ability work independently

- Proven analytical skills - defining problems, collecting relevant data, drawing valid conclusions, and recommending improvement/corrective actions

- ERP system experience

- Self-starter, ability to identify issues and resolve problems

- BA/BS in Accounting, CPA credentials are preferred

- Account reconciliation experience highly desired

- Practical knowledge of financial reporting

- Quality experience with journal entries

- Strong familiarity with general ledger

- Proven knowledge of Balance Sheet Reconciliation

- GAAP Accounting experience

- General familiarity with month end closings

- Well-founded grasp of cash reconciliations

- Command of Accounts Payable (AP)

- Accounts Receivable (AR) experience desired

- Earlier experience in public accounting is highly valued

- Deep understanding of internal controls and SOX compliance

- Vow to meet business deadlines

- Familiarity with corporate performance management (CPM) and business intelligence systems required

- Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines

- 3-5 years of overall general accounting experience, ideally with Big 4 experience

- Excellent verbal, written, and social skills