Senior Accountant

The candidate should have a minimum of 5 years of experience in a general ledger capacity.  Strong communications skills and a drive to exceed expectation will be characteristics possessed by the successful candidate.  They will need to have strong Excel skills as well as have worked with an automated ledger application such as Microsoft Dynamics.  Experience with Microsoft Access is a plus for this position but not required.  Job Function: Responsible for the completion of financial statement review, analysis, account reconciliation, initial and corrective journal entries.Ensure accurate and timely completion of assigned tasks.Participate in strategic planning sessions to develop and monitor processes and procedures ensuring timely detection of errors and accuracy of information released.

Identify, propose and implement process and or procedure changes to gain efficiencies, strengthen controls, or improve quality of information provided by the department.

An assessment of assigned staff member's areas of opportunity should be completed on a monthly basis and a strategy developed to address those areas.     

It is our intention that every staff member succeed.  In the event that performance is below expectation, informal counseling, formal counseling, and written notices are to be completed with the collaboration of the supervisor's manager and the Human Resource Department."      Examples of specific duties:  Assign locations to be reviewed in detail during the monthly close process.Prepare and review the following high level schedules - Accounts Payable, Bad Debt Expense, Accounts Receivable, Depreciation - all field locations, Funeral Home Intercompany, Interest Expense, Merchandise Cost, and Salaries & Benefits - Other.

 

Compile journal entries and approve for posting.

Propose items to be included in the Notes to Financials. Coordinate the recording of intercompany billing forms submitted.Prepare reports on the status of account reconciliations identifying proposed adjustments and processing errors.