Job Description
General Ledger Accountant
Department: Corporate/Administrative
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Jackson, MS
Reporting To: Alyssa Blackwell
Compensation: $77,000 - $85,000 / year
Waggoner Engineering, Inc. is seeking an experienced General Ledger Accountant to join our Finance and Accounting team in either Jackson, MS or Baton Rouge, LA This hands-on individual contributor role will own key general ledger and month-end accounting activities, including bank and balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, cash activity, Accounts Payable accounting review and posting, and other general ledger functions.
The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, takes ownership of assigned accounts and processes, and is comfortable working within an ERP to research transactions, identify discrepancies, and carry issues through resolution. Experience with Deltek Vantagepoint or Deltek Vision and within a project-based environment is strongly preferred.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare monthly bank reconciliations for assigned operating and other cash accounts and timely research and resolve reconciling items.
- Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations with complete supporting documentation.
- Prepare and post recurring and non-recurring journal entries, including accruals, prepaid expenses, reclassifications, intercompany activity, and correcting entries.
- Own assigned general ledger accounts and ensure transactions are complete, accurate, appropriately classified, and recorded in the proper period.
- Perform assigned month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities within established deadlines.
- Review daily bank and cash activity and ensure transactions are accurately reflected in the general ledger.
- Assist with routine cash management, cash balance monitoring, and identification of transactions requiring accounting entries or follow-up.
- Provide accounting oversight of cash receipt activity, including reconciliation of deposits and assistance with unidentified or unapplied cash.
- Review Accounts Payable transactions for appropriate general ledger, entity, project, organization, and other required accounting coding.
- Review and post approved Accounts Payable transactions or batches as assigned.
- Maintain and reconcile schedules supporting accruals, prepaid expenses, intercompany balances, and other assigned assets and liabilities.
- Research unusual transactions, account fluctuations, aged reconciling items, and general ledger discrepancies and follow them through resolution.
- Assist with reconciliation of project-related, indirect, and overhead accounts as assigned.
- Support annual financial statement audits and other external audit requests by preparing reconciliations, schedules, and transaction-level supporting documentation.
- Assist with annual FAR/AASHTO indirect cost and overhead audit support, including general ledger reconciliations and supporting documentation.
- Work collaboratively with Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Project Accounting, Treasury, and other team members to resolve accounting issues and maintain accurate financial records.
- Identify opportunities to improve recurring accounting processes, documentation, and account reconciliations.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 4+ years of progressive accounting experience with meaningful hands-on responsibility for general ledger accounting, reconciliations, and month-end close.
- Demonstrated experience preparing bank reconciliations and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Experience preparing and posting journal entries.
- Strong understanding of accrual accounting and general ledger accounting principles.
- Experience working within an ERP or other integrated accounting system.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including experience working with accounting data, reconciliations, lookups, and pivot tables.
- Ability to independently research accounting discrepancies and resolve reconciling items.
- Strong attention to detail, organization, and documentation.
- Ability to manage recurring responsibilities and meet monthly close deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications
- Deltek Vantagepoint or Deltek Vision experience.
- Experience with another project-based ERP/accounting system.
- Architecture and engineering, engineering consulting, professional services, government contracting, construction, or other project-based industry experience.
- Multi-entity accounting experience.
- Project accounting or job-cost accounting exposure.
- Experience with FAR Part 31, AASHTO overhead audits, indirect cost accounting, or allowable/unallowable cost classifications.
- External financial statement audit support experience.
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Why Join Our Team
We know work isn't only about what you do, it's also about who you work for and with! Waggoner Engineering provides a fun, family-friendly, and multicultural work environment that supports a work life balance, including:
- WEI Incentive Program
- Healthy Workplace Program
- Employee Referral Bonus
- Competitive Health Benefits
- Career Development and Training
- Flexible/Hybrid Schedule
- Community Service Opportunities
Waggoner Engineering, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.
Pay Transparency
The base salary range for this role is indicated in the posting. This range reflects the company’s good faith estimate of the compensation for this position at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, internal equity, and geographic location.
