Reconciliation Specialist

Role Description

Execute high-level general ledger account reconciliations, accurate reporting, and data verification, enabling senior staff to analyze options and make financial decisions aligned with company objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Business Accounting or Finance desired.
• Minimum 5 years of professional accounting experience.
• Superior organization and time management skills for prioritizing and managing multiple projects.
• Strong written and oral communication skills as well as proficiency in MS Excel and MS Word, and General Ledger Accounting systems.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage competing deadlines.
• Thorough knowledge of accounting principles and procedures.
• Experience in Audit accounting process.
• Knowledge of GAAP a plus.

Requirements

• Monitor policies and procedures for assigned departments, and identify and suggest improvements for reconciliation processes, accounting reporting and procedures.
• Journal Entries: adjustments and reclassifications.
• Accruals.
• Balance Sheet reconciliations.
• Audit reports.
• Month end Close process.
• Ad Hoc reports.
• Perform high-level general ledger account reconciliations, verify accuracy of data, and report, identify, and correct errors made by both internal and external personnel.
• Support timely monthly, quarterly, mid-year, and year-end financial close, including assigned journal entries, balance sheet account reconciliations, accruals, and overall maintenance of accounts.
• Prepare special financial reports as requested by management by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information and trends.

Benefits

• Teamwork: Share due credit with co-workers, display enthusiasm and promote a friendly group working environment, work closely with other departments as necessary, support group decisions and solicit opinions from coworkers, and display team spirit.
• Communication: Clearly present information through spoken or written word, read and interpret complex information, talk with customers or clients, and listen well.
• Work Independently: Ability to be resourceful and problem solve.
• Self-Motivation: Create a schedule and routine to stay focused and on task. Limit distractions.
• Comfortable Learning and Using Digital Tools: Be comfortable effectively collaborating in a remote environment while utilizing video meeting software and all company-specific digital platforms.
• Emotional Intelligence: Be self-aware, empathetic, and adaptable in the face of any remote work challenges.
• Attention to Detail: Be alert, follow detailed procedures and ensure accuracy in documentation and data, carefully monitor processes, concentrate on routine work details, and organize and maintain a system of records.
• Initiative: Bring about great results from ordinary circumstances, prepare for problems or opportunities in advance, transform leads into productive business outcomes, undertake additional responsibilities and respond to situations as they arise without supervision.
• Integrity: Be tactful, maintain confidences, and foster an ethical work environment. Prevent inappropriate behavior by co-workers, give proper credit to others, and handle all situations honestly.
• Decision Making and Problem Solving: Act on solving problems while exhibiting judgment and a realistic understanding of issues. Use reason, even when dealing with emotional topics, review facts and weigh options.
• Policies, Process and Procedures: Act in accordance with established guidelines, follow standard procedures in crisis situations, communicate and enforce organizational policies and procedures, recognize and constructively conform to unwritten rules or practices.
• Conflict Management: Use a win-win approach to resolve controversy, stay objective and fair when dealing with sensitive situations, maintain constructive working relationships despite disagreement.
• Flexibility: Remain open-minded and change opinions based on new information, perform a wide variety of tasks, and change focus quickly as demands change, manage transitions effectively from task to task, adapt to varying customer needs.
• Quality: Maintain high standards despite pressing deadlines, establish high standards and measures, do work right the first time, and inspect processes for flaws, test new methods thoroughly, reinforce excellence as a fundamental priority.

Work Environment

• Stable, nonpublic internet connection with sufficient bandwidth to participate in video meetings and other regular activities, with an alternative location considered as a backup.
• Working environment conducive to conducting business without distraction or interference.
• Noise level in the work environment that is quiet to moderate.
• A designated workspace which allows the Team Member to focus, preferably with a desk or worktable, comfortable chair, and good lighting.

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Spending continuous time on the phone and video calls.
• Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, and depth perception.
• Occasionally reach with hands and arms, lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.