Burroughs, Inc Hiring for Accountant Job at Elmhurst, IL Full Time

Description

The Accountant role has high visibility into the Finance function, and serves as a critical role within the team to help manage the month-end close process and day-to-day accounting activities, as well as assist with various ad-hoc requests. This position can be a Remote or Hybrid opportunity and maintains a wide variety of responsibilities, including areas such as balance sheet reconciliations, revenue recognition, inventory, costing/management, fleet, among other responsibilities.

• Responsible for revenue recognition, inventory, costing, fleet, and ASC842
• Primary interface with operations for inventory and parts costing /pricing
• Responsible for financial analysis on an adhoc basis
• Conduct monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Produce error-free accounting reports and present their results
• Analyze and summarize financial information on a weekly and monthly basis.
• As part of month-end close, provide variance analysis and explanations
• Responsible for Excess and Obsolescence & Allowance for Doubtful account calculations & reconciliation on a monthly basis
• Capital Asset management and forecasting
• Suggest ways to improve process efficiency & continuous improvement
• Work closely with the Company’s external auditors to facilitate an efficient annual audit
• Support the month-end and year-end close process
• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
• Ensure compliance with GAAP principles
• Assist in quarterly forecasting and annual planning process for fleet, capital, balance sheet, and other adhoc requests

• In-depth understanding of generally accepted accounting principles and accounting software, preferably NetSuite
• Advanced MS Excel skills
• Acute attention to detail
• Sense of urgency and the desire to work in a fast pace environment
• Strong personal computer and business solutions software skills
• Strong interpersonal skills for interacting with the internal accounting team and upper management
• Good communication skills for communicating with support personnel and management
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Solid presentation skills for educating internal clients on accounting principles
• Good planning and organizational skills to balance and prioritize work

• This role requires the use of typical office equipment such as a computer, laptop and cell phone.
• This job operates in a professional office environment, either in Elmhurst, Illinois or Farmington Hills, Michigan, with Hybrid options available

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• Two or more years of broad and proven accounting experience
• Above average skills in Microsoft applications; Excel and PPT
• CPA or MBA preferred