Staff Accountant III

Staff Accountant IIIRequired Skills & Experience:• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or related field required.• 5+ years of experience as a senior staff accountant• Strong knowledge of GAAP, consolidations, and eliminations.• Perform revenue recognition accounting activities in accordance with ASC 606 requirements and company policy.• Hands-on experience with ASC 842 lease accounting, including lease classification, journal entries, reconciliations, and financial statement reporting.• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUP) and proactive in learning formulas.• Ability to prepare and analyze financial statements (cash flows, equity, P&L) and understand how they interrelate.• Ability to identify anomalies in financial data and make adjustments.• Experience preparing complete financial statements, including Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement, and Statement of Equity.• Experience working directly with auditors and supporting annual external audits, preparing audit schedules, responding to auditor requests, and coordinating audit deliverables.• Prior involvement in audits or year-end processes.• Exposure to large revenue bases and transitions.• Strong full-cycle accounting experience including journal entries, account reconciliations, month-end close, year-end close, and balance sheet analysis.• Manage and account for complex accounting areas including fixed assets, leases, payroll accounting, accruals, prepaid expenses, deferred revenue, investments, taxes, notes payable, and customer advances.Additional Information:*Experience working remote/work from home environment*Available to travel a few times a year to CA for large meetings*Must be comfortable working PST hours all yearNice to Have Skills & Experience:• CPA or CPA candidate preferred.• Public accounting background preferred.• Experience with Acumatica ERP.• Experience with Yardi Voyager and/or ProSystem fx.Job Description:The Staff Accountant III performs advanced accounting functions and reporting through the preparation of balance sheets, profit and loss statements, and other financial reports. Responsibilities include analyzing trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations incurred to predict future revenues and expenses. Reports the organization's finances to management, and offers suggestions about resource utilization, tax strategies, and assumptions underlying budget forecasts. This position identifies process improvement opportunities and may provide functional advice and training to less experienced Accountants.Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.• Uses Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and controls that will prevent or reduce risk of potential misstatements or misappropriations;• Monitors compliance with GAAP, Sarbanes Oxley Requirements, internal controls, and company and departmental procedures;• Reconciles general ledger accounts;• Reviews, investigates, and corrects errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, documents, and reports;• Compiles and analyzes financial information;• Prepares journal entries for the general ledger;• Performs month-end close process and assists with the preparation of monthly reporting packages, preparation of the management financial briefings and monthly financial reviews for the Board of Directors;• Assists in training and mentoring less experienced accountants. Manages projects and assumes a leadership role in assigned meetings;• Prepares and distributes individual company's variance reports. Analyzes financial information and prepares balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports (including 10-K's and 10-Q's) to summarize and interpret current and projected company financial position for management;• Audits contracts, orders, and vouchers, and prepares reports to substantiate individual transactions prior to settlement;• Maintains responsibility for key Accounting functions (i.e. cash, investments, accounts receivable, prepaids, fixed assets, internally developed software, notes receivable, notes payable, leases, deferred rent, accounts payable, customer advances, accrued expenses, income taxes, rebates, payroll, etc.);• Manages internal resources to successfully perform assigned duties within the Accounting group. Provides day-to-day assistance in developing and administering policies, business processes and quality standards, and developing and maintaining cross-functional and interdepartmental relationships;• Works under deadlines and quickly resolve accounting challenges that impacts many of the functional areas of the company;• Drives positive change through the organization by identifying issues and proposing solutions, seeing the selected method for resolution through, and maintaining the solution as appropriate;• Proactively acts to understand client needs and identify solutions to non-standard tasks/queries;• Provides solutions to a diverse range of complex problems;• Anticipates potential control issues and works to resolve them before becoming audit findings. Interfaces effectively with audit staff;• Serves as a resource on generally accepted accounting principles and financial accounting standards;• Drives process improvement and simplification initiatives. Suggests and creates processes and procedures to make the group more streamlined and efficient. Develops and recommends enhancements to accounting methods and procedures;• Performs research on accounting and financial reporting issues and communicates conclusions to management.