Staff Accountant

Job Summary:

This position is responsible for a variety of accounting functions such as but not limited to preparation of month-end journal entries, daily cash reconciliation, monthly balance sheet reconciliations, management of fixed asset and for the integrity of financial statements and reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for daily cash reconciliation and resolution of any reconciling items in a timely manner.

• Responsible for the fixed assets controls and procedures for maintaining fixed assets in both the general ledger and subledger.

• Administer Capital Expenditure Request process, including logging requests submitted, tracking, verifying, and communicating approvals, setting up projects in Sage FAS (subledger) and JDE (general ledger), reporting on projects' status and closing projects upon completion.

• Record corporate and plant fixed asset acquisitions and dispositions in Sage FAS and reconcile the balances from Sage to the fixed assets in JDE.

• Calculate and record depreciation for all fixed assets and maintain the detailed schedule of fixed assets and accumulated depreciation.

• Prepare journal entries and perform month-end close duties in conjunction with the corporate and plant accounting staff.

• Responsible for the timely preparation, filing and payment of sales and use tax.

• Review and post AP batches for accuracy in terms of GL coding, banking account and transaction period.

• Provide back up for AP specialist.

• Prepare and analyze monthly general ledger account analyses, account reconciliations, and bank reconciliations.

• Assist with maintaining and managing leases in LeaseQuery and record monthly lease journal entries.

• Assist with preparing and analyzing monthly reports, such as advertising, trade spending, prepayment and capital expenditures and the according journal entries.

• Ad hoc analysis preparation and review of account reconciliation

• Prepare audit, tax, and budget projection schedules for fixed assets.

• Assist with year-end audit work, including preparation of the audit schedules and responding to auditor requests and auditor questions.

• Other duties and projects as assigned.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting with at least 2 years of experience.

• Strong knowledge of the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

• CPA or CPA track preferred.

• Experience with Fixed Assets, Month End Close, and Account Reconciliations required.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and intermediate skills in MS Excel.

• Strong organizational and analytical skills with attention to detail.

• Good verbal and written communication skills

• Desire to learn and motivated to excel.

Other details

• Pay Type Salary

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• Oil-Dri Corporation of America, 410 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America