Project Accountant - Capital Expenditures - Virtual Company
Princeton, NJ 08540
About the Job
Princeton, New Jersey
Direct Hire – Hybrid Schedule
The Senior Accountant is responsible for transactional processing as well as general financial accounting and maintaining and overseeing financial processes at the foreign subsidiaries. This position is responsible for ensuring appropriate accounting principles, practices and internal control procedures are applied in the accurate and timely preparation of financial records and statements.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare journal entries
- Perform general ledger account analysis and reconciliations audit schedules, year-end tax schedules
- Maintain and oversee all finance processes involved with Project Accounting and Capital Expenditures
- Prepare the monthly Contractor and Employee Capital Expenditures, reconciling to our time tracking invoice, to be posted to the general ledger
- Prepare monthly Construction in Process roll forward
- Create Capital Projects in NetSuite in accordance with the appropriate files received from PMO and Technology Solutions
- Prepare Analysis of Time recorded in our time tracking system to ensure the project and task recorded are in line with the forecast
- Work with Department Heads to ensure all time is recorded in a given month
- Thorough knowledge of sound accounting principles and their application to business transactions.
- Ensure an accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and year-end close
- Participate in and drive efficiencies in month-end accounting close processes across all business units
- Ensure the timely reporting of all required financial reports
- Collaborate with other shared services and business unit finance personnel to support overall department and Company goals and objectives
- Analyze own work to develop more efficient procedures and use of resources while maintaining a high level of accuracy
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation required
- Must have a thorough knowledge of general ledger accounting and account reconciliation.
- Knowledge of accounting systems needed; previous experience with NetSuite preferred. Experience with any/all of Concur, BlackLine, ADP Workforce, and Adaptive Insights is a plus.
- Ability to understand operational systems and processes used in the operations and understand downstream impacts to financial statements.
- Ability to analyze financial data and assist in the preparation of financial reports and statements.
- Must have advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and the Microsoft Office Suite.
Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
EEO Notice
Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .
Vaco also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.
By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.
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Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries (“we,” “our,” or “Vaco”) respects your privacy and are committed to providing transparent notice of our policies.
- California residents may access Vaco’s HR Notice at Collection for California Applicants and Employees here.
- Virginia residents may access our state specific policies here.
- Residents of all other states may access our policies here.
- Canadian residents may access our policies in English here and in French here.
- Residents of countries governed by GDPR may access our policies here.
Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.