Location: North Aurora, IL
Pay Range: $27 - $29/hour
Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance. 401(k)
Role Overview: Brilliant Financial Staffing has been engaged in the search for a Staff Accountant. Our client located in North Aurora, IL is looking for a Staff Accountant to join their team on a Contract-to-Hire basis. They are seeking an individual with 3+ years of experience, a Bachelor's degree, and someone that is comfortable with month-end responsibilities. Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply immediately!
Key Responsibilities:
- Prepares, records, and enters journal entries involving cash, AR, inventory, prepaid accruals, and various intercompany transactions in an accurate & timely manner - 50 transactions per month
- Assists in the monthly financial closing process by reconciling various general ledger accounts and providing account analysis & support
- Reconciles bank accounts.
- Maintains fixed assets depreciation schedule
- Oversees monthly physical inventory counts, coordinating issues & results with warehouse staff
- Processes payroll journal entries provided by HR
- Prepares 1099’s on an annual basis.
- Files sales taxes to meet all requirements while avoiding overpayment
- Assists with the year-end audit by providing financial documentation to auditors.
- Regularly interacts and responds to the needs and requests of internal customers such as General Managers, process owners (AR, AP, Payroll, IT, etc.), functional supervisors, and operations staff in a timely and professional manner.
- Maintains a strong internal control environment emphasizing standardizing business transactions, and monitoring routines performed by field personnel.
- Supervises the accounts receivable staff.
- Communicates courteously and professionally with co-workers, management, clients, and others.
- Must be willing to cross-train with various accounting personnel to gain diverse knowledge and skills
- Various ad-hoc analysis as requested
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of full-cycle accounting and month-end exposure (open to candidates with 10+ years)
- Must be tech-savvy with strong attention to detail
- Excel: Must be comfortable in Excel, not expert level but comfort working in existing v-lookups and pivot tables
Brilliant Staffing, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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