What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Accountant position at MCS?
Job Description
Job Description
Senior Accountant
Summary :
The role of the Senior Accountant is to coordinate and review all accounting functions and financial statements in a timely fashion.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities :
- Generate daily cash and other periodic management reports
- Responsible for the integrity of general ledgers.
- Coordinates the completion of the balance sheet account analysis
- Reviews variance analysis.
- Assists in controlling expenditures and streamlines the data processing support required during month-end.
- Evaluates subsidiary journals for obvious errors and omissions and enters corrected data into the general ledger. Performs all tasks associated with the general ledger (e.g : enters monthly journal entries, executes monthly closing entries, executes month-end general ledger.)
- Reviews monthly balance sheet and profit-and-loss statements
- Coordinates monthly closing and production of financial statements to guarantee timely reporting
- Reviews, redesigns, and enhances the financial statements to ensure that the information reported properly reflects the company's financial position
- Assists in reviewing and updating monthly closing procedures
- Reviews and documents present accounting practices and procedures.
- Assists outside auditors at year-end to include preparing schedules, invoices, providing explanation of supporting materials and procedures, and preparing any other necessary data
- Provides support on various ad-hoc tasks as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
Competencies :
Education and Experience :
Education : BS in Accounting
Experience : Minimum of 5 years relevant general ledger and financial analysis experience
Previous experience in Great Plains Software, preferred
Process improvement experience a plus
Physical Requirements and Work Content :
Americans with Disability Specifications : 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 occasionally required to stand, move, operate with hands and arms, and lift up to 15 pounds. The employee is regularly required to use hands to operate or feel objects, tools or controls, communicate, distinguish or identify, adjust or focus.
Work Environment :
Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. This position is a sedentary position that requires 8 hours of sitting at a desk in a climate controlled environment with frequent computer, mouse, 10 key touch and phone work.
Additional Comments :
These declarations are not to be an “all-inclusive” list of the duties and responsibilities nor of the skills and abilities required to do the job. They are intended only to describe the general nature of the job and a reasonable representation of its activities. Additional essential functions and / or tasks may be identified by the company and listed as such in the incumbent’s performance appraisal. Various tasks may be assigned under each task or function. The incumbent performs other job-related duties as assigned and required.
This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at-will” employment relationship.
EOE, including disability / vets
