Senior Accountant

Summary   

The Senior Accountant plays a critical role in maintaining financial integrity and ensuring compliance with accounting standards. This position involves recording financial transactions, preparing complex account reconciliations, and supporting various accounting functions. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong understanding of accounting principles, possess excellent analytical skills, and contribute to the overall efficiency of the accounting department. This position requires an ability to function in a fast-paced deadline driven environment. This role is responsible for complex account reconciliations, including research and understanding of the account activity, learning and understanding all aspects of the revenue/expense cycle within The IIA. This role will participate in month end close by preparing required schedules and journal entries; will also be responsible for preparing audit documentation and researching issues as they arise.  This role requires extensive experience working in cloud-based accounting software and is responsible for building reports and troubleshooting issues within the tool. This team strives to cross train and support each other in meeting deadlines, hence the ability to collaborate and communicate effectively is very important. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Financial Record Management: Maintain and update financial records, ensuring accuracy and compliance with accounting standards.
• Work with Large and Complex Data Sets: This involves handling and analyzing extensive and intricate financial data to support revenue recognition journal entries. This task requires proficiency in managing large data sets using analysis tools and software.
• Complex Account Reconciliations: Perform regular reconciliations of general ledger accounts, such as, deferred revenue, accounts receivable, and cash to ensure accuracy of account balances.
• Reporting: Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports, including balance sheets and income statements, and assist with variance analysis.

• Create and Update Reports and Queries: Develop reports and queries in accounting software for all team members to use. 
• Troubleshoot issues in accounting software: Ability to research and resolve issues with reports and data to support team inquiries.
• Provide Accounting Support: Be well-versed in department policies and systems to answer accounting-related questions from colleagues in various departments and at all organizational levels.
• Resolve Unprecedented Issues: Proactively Identify, research, and resolve complex and unusual accounting issues that may arise during financial operations. 
• Special Projects and Ad-Hoc Reporting: Assist the Senior Manager, Financial Reporting and the Controller with special projects and provide ad-hoc reports as needed. 
• Document and Update Processes: Effective documentation of processes and procedures to ensure seamless coverage for team members. 
• Audit Support: Assist with internal and external audits by providing supporting documentation and addressing inquiries.

• Process Improvement: Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency within the accounting function.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other departments to provide financial insights and support decision-making. 

Supervisory Responsibilities                                                  

No direct supervisory responsibilities.  

Qualifications 

• Education: A bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field. 
• Experience: Minimum Five years accounting experience, including general ledger account analysis. Three-five years of audit experience is preferred. 

      Required Skills:

• Advanced Microsoft Excel abilities
• Proven ability to meet critical deadlines.
• Strong personal time management skills
• Self-motivation and ability to work with limited supervision.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with sharp attention to detail
• Ability to interpret data, identify and resolve issues
• Hands on experience with Net Suite Accounting system is preferred.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, capable of effectively interacting with various stakeholders. 
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, and percentages.   Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as financial terms in leases and contracts, policies, and procedure manuals.  Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.  Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of an organization.  Multiple language ability is an asset in any role with The IIA.

Physical Demands 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk and sit. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and color vision.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

This position will require work in our Headquarters office in Lake Mary, FL 40% of the time.