Position: General Staff Accountant II
Reports to: Accounting Manager
Department: Accounting
Purpose: Responsible for day-to-day accounting functions, assigned monthly close responsibilities, and the preparation of accurate, complete, and review-ready accounting support. This role assists with the timely execution of monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes; prepares account reconciliations, journal entries, analyses, and supporting schedules; and supports the Company’s GAAP financial reporting, audit, and tax-compliance requirements.
The General Staff Accountant II is expected to understand the purpose of assigned procedures, maintain appropriate documentation, identify discrepancies or unusual items, and escalate accounting, process, or control issues that require further review.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Independently own assigned processes and close workstreams through completion.
- Proactively manage assigned deliverables to meet close, reporting, audit, and tax deadlines; communicate potential delays, dependencies, or unresolved issues early, along with a proposed path to resolution.
- Maintaining financial reports, records, and general ledger (GL) Accounts.
- Prepare complete and audit-ready journal entries and account reconciliations that agree to the general ledger and trial balance, identify and explain reconciling items, support the ending balance with appropriate evidence, and appropriately resolve or escalate open items.
- Contributing to the development and review of annual operating budgets and performance projections.
- Follow established accounting processes and controls while exercising judgment regarding whether the procedure, documentation, and result appropriately address the underlying accounting objective and risk.
- Assist with the preparation of GAAP financial reporting schedules, audit support, tax workpapers, and other accounting support requested by management or external advisors.
- Ensuring compliance and understanding of federal, state, and municipal tax codes.
- Perform variance analysis and investigate unusual balances, trends, transactions, or fluctuations. Escalate issues when the underlying accounting treatment, support, process, or control appears incomplete or inappropriate.
- Research routine accounting questions using available accounting guidance, internal policies, prior-period support, and other reliable resources; summarize findings and escalate matters requiring technical accounting judgment or management review.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Accounting required. Equivalent related work experience or combination of experience and education may be considered in lieu of Bachelor’s degree.
- 2-4 years of accounting or audit experience required, including hands-on responsibility for preparing workpapers for at least one annual external audit cycle. Experience must include preparing audit-ready deliverables and GAAP financial reporting schedules. Public accounting audit experience strongly preferred.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to clearly document accounting support, open items, findings, and conclusions in a clear, focused and concise manner.
- Working knowledge of GAAP, including the ability to apply established accounting policies and recognize when an accounting matter requires additional research or escalation.
- Demonstrated ability to prepare account reconciliations and supporting schedules that agree to the general ledger and trial balance and are sufficiently documented for management, audit, and tax review.
- Understanding of basic internal control concepts, including the purpose of documentation, review evidence, reconciliations, approvals, segregation of duties, and timely resolution of exceptions.
- Ability to analyze accounting procedures critically, identify missing support or inconsistencies, and raise questions when a prescribed process does not appropriately address the underlying accounting objective.
- Good problem-solving and time management skills.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented.
- Excellent computer skills, including experience with Microsoft Office Products, especially Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Experience working in and managing an ERP system, NetSuite experience is a plus.
- Ability to function effectively and positively within a team environment and proactively seek guidance and support when needed.Ability to maintain confidentiality.
Supervisory Responsibility: This position does not have supervisory responsibilities but contributes to team development through cross-training and knowledge sharing within the Accounting department.
Work Environment: This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that a Team Player must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Regularly required to talk and hear.
- Frequently required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
- Occasionally required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
- Must frequently lift and move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and move objects up to 25 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: This is a full-time, exempt position. Under the Regulations, Part 541, an exempt Team Player is one who is not entitled to the minimum wage or overtime pay protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
Standard work days and hours are Monday through Friday, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. This position may work outside of normal business hours, including evenings and weekends.
Travel: 5-10% travel is expected for this position. Must be willing to travel based on company need. Overnight trips may be necessary.
EEO Statement: Excel Fitness is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to the policy of equal employment opportunity in recruitment, hiring, career advancement, and all other employment practices.
Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the Team Player for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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