What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Accountant position at Summit Clinical Research?
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Summit - TX - Texas, TX Full Time 4 Year Degree None Accounting
Description
Overall responsibility
Responsible for maintaining core accounting functions, financial statement preparation, and providing comprehensive accounting support across Summit’s departments and business operations. This role ensures accuracy, compliance, and continuous improvement of financial processes.
Key Tasks:
Requirements:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Language Ability:
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
Math Ability:
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
Reasoning Ability:
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Computer Skills:
To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, web-based enterprise solutions, and project management software.
Specialized Training:
Valid driver’s license and personal auto insurance
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 regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to adjust focus, and ability to see color.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing 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 rarely exposed to bloodborne pathogens.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Summit - TX - Texas, TX Full Time 4 Year Degree None Accounting
Description
Overall responsibility
Responsible for maintaining core accounting functions, financial statement preparation, and providing comprehensive accounting support across Summit’s departments and business operations. This role ensures accuracy, compliance, and continuous improvement of financial processes.
Key Tasks:
- Manage and review monthly accounting transactions, analyzing variances against forecasts and budgets. Effectively communicate and explain variance to stakeholders at all levels. Partner with the finance team to identify and assess business risks and opportunities for process improvement.
- Lead monthly balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring accuracy and timely resolution of discrepancies while maintaining proper documentation and audit trails. Demonstrate strong understanding of accounting principles through analysis of transaction impacts on both P&L and balance sheet, providing insights for business decisions. Direct and executes month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring adherence to deadlines and maintaining high standards of accuracy.
- Provide mentorship and oversight to team members, fostering professional development and ensuring quality of work. Drive daily accounting operations, including preparation and analysis of GAAP compliant financial statements
- Develop and present comprehensive Budget vs Actual reports, including detailed cost variance and profitability analyses.
- Coordinate internal and external audit processes, including documentation preparation, cross functional communication, and maintenance of robust audit trails.
- Ensure timely and accurate completion of all journal entries, subsidiary ledgers, and bank reconciliations, to maintain financial integrity of the organization.
- Support strategic financial initiatives including budget preparation and monitoring, and special accounting projects.
- Perform detailed account analyses and create comprehensive financial summaries for management review. Develop, Implement, and monitor internal controls and accounting policies to ensure compliance and operational efficiency.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting
- Master’s degree in accounting preferred
- 5-7 Years’ Experience
- Experience with general accounting, GAAP accrual
- Excel knowledge that includes Pivot Tables, SUMIF’s and V Lookups
- Experience with NetSuite system
- This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Language Ability:
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
Math Ability:
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
Reasoning Ability:
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Computer Skills:
To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, web-based enterprise solutions, and project management software.
Specialized Training:
- GCP Training
Valid driver’s license and personal auto insurance
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 regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to adjust focus, and ability to see color.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing 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 rarely exposed to bloodborne pathogens.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
