Certified Public Accountant -- FGDC5689172

Job Title: Accountant

Duration: 12+ Months/Can be Extended

Location: Purchase NY 10577

Pay Rate: $40 to $45/Hour on W2

Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-5:00 PM

Responsibilities:

Description of Job Duties & Required Skills:

• Review and prepare/process period journal entries in accordance with month end close – example: cross charges, prepaid amortizations, accruals, leases etc.
• Ensure all spending (capital and expense) and support complies with GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles)
• Manage labor accrual process for vendors and ensure proper accounting and upload periodic entries.
• Aid in issue resolution with vendors, Finance Managers and Project Managers.
• Submit period invoices for contract labor vendors to AP.
• Provide accounting guidance to Project and Finance Managers. Review expense and capital spend through project life cycle and contracts to make accounting recommendations as appropriate.
• Prepare project accounting analytics for the Period Operation Review Report.
• Query and perform financial statement analysis for period close.
• Validate, approve and release projects for spend during Out of Cycle (OOC) and Annual Operating Plan (AOP) process.
• Perform project-related SOX controls for Capital Spend and Prepaid Expenses.
• Ad hoc project and reconciliation requests.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or related business degree.
• 2+ years of relevant accounting/financial experience.
• Strong accounting knowledge/ability to understand and reconcile financial data.
• Ability to exercise sound independent judgment and make decisions autonomously.
• Effectively communicates and provides insights to cross functional teams.
• Microsoft Excel experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• SAP FICO and Project Systems.
• SOP 98-1 Knowledge: Capitalization/ Amortization of Software and Cloud Computing Arrangements.
• Experience in SAP ledger and Business Warehouse (BW) Reporting for data analytics is a plus.
• CPA preferred/CPA candidate.