What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Accountant Financial Reporting position at Buckingham Search?
Our client is seeking a Senior Accountant - External Reporting to join their team. The Senior Accountant will support the external reporting process to the highest level of quality, including deliverables for investors and lenders as well as assist in certain technical accounting and reporting matters, improve processes in the area of external reporting, including controls over financial reporting, entity-level controls, and related party processes.
Responsibilities:
- Support the external financial reporting process, including preparation of the consolidated income statement, balance sheet, statement of equity, and statement of cash flows.
- Compile quarterly and annual financial statements, footnotes, and management’s discussion and analysis of results.
- Assist in enhancing the certification processes.
- Review deliverables in detail to ensure the highest quality standard in financial reporting.
- Assist with inquiries from external parties such as auditors, lenders, rating agencies, sponsors.
- Prepare monthly close data, journal entries, and account reconciliation for certain technical accounting areas (e.g., equity accounting and related party balances).
- Analyze operating financials, interpret results and recommend a plan of action to improve the accounting process.
- Provide periodic monthly and quarterly schedules (to support internal and external reporting).
- Contribute to large-scale projects to implement process improvements and internal controls for financial reporting and entity-level controls.
- Work cross functionally to manage change and enhance communications with stakeholders.
- Support/drive new business initiatives, system integrations, and other major change management impacting financial statements and related systems.
- Collaborate with corporate accounting and global reporting/consolidations as needed on financial reporting matters.
- Assist with the implementation of an external financial reporting tool and streamline the external reporting process through automation.
- Support the external audit process globally, providing project management across finance.
Minimum Qualifications:
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
Relevant Work Experience
- At least 2 years of Corporate Accounting experience.
Additional
- Experience applying GAAP knowledge.
- Advanced level skill in Microsoft Excel.
- Able to work with large amounts of data.
Preferred
- Master’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
- CPA strongly preferred.
- At least 2 years of accounting experience with a focus on financial reporting, consolidations, or technical accounting.
- Experience at a public company with SEC reporting requirements (or public accounting experiences with listed clients).
- Experience working with a consolidation system (Oracle EPM, BPC).
- Experience applying advanced knowledge level of accounting practices, controls, and systems.
- Strong technical accounting acumen, with proven ability to perform complex accounting research and analysis.
- Experience with an external reporting tool (e.g., Workiva’s Wdesk platform).
- Experience with balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement preparation/review.
