Senior Accountant - Gables Search Group

Our client, located in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, is one of the nation’s leading privately held companies in the environmental waste services industry. They are seeking a highly motivated Senior Accountant with a strong work ethic to join their rapidly growing company. They offer competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and opportunities for advancement. The position is an onsite office position Monday-Friday with 2 hybrid working days a month. 

The Senior Accountant role will influence, drive process, implement change, and proactively lead while demonstrating a high level of transparency, accountability, and collaboration cross-functionally. This highly visible position will create value for the business by providing accurate, timely accounting and analytical services to all business partners enabling them to make better business decisions. The knowledge and experience provided by this position create an excellent platform for continued career growth.

Essential Duties:
Timely and accurately completes all assigned tasks necessary for the general ledger close at each month-end, quarter-end, and year-end reporting cycle

• Ensures the integrity of accounting information by recording, verifying, consolidating, and entering transactions
• Review financial reports and prepare analyses
• Timely preparation of assigned balance sheet account reconciliations
• Maintains and balances subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, and reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies
• Assistance with various financial reporting deliverables
• Compilation of inventory values and analysis of inventory changes including regular communication with those personnel in the field that are responsible for the physical inventory counts
• Maintain compliance and documentation of internal controls
• Collaboration with external auditors and the internal audit function regarding the company’s annual audit, and ongoing controls testing
• Analysis of business trends and communication with product managers and other business leaders regarding financial performance on various components of the company
• Development and implementation of process improvements with the goal of reducing the time to close the books while maintaining high quality and accuracy
• Timely completion of ad-hoc project work, as assigned
  
  

Position Qualification Requirements:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The following requirements are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Work Experience

• Approximately 3 to 8 years of combined work experience in corporate accounting, public accounting, internal audit, financial planning & analysis, or similar fields
  
  

Education, Certificates, Licenses, or Designations

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or related field
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) strongly preferred
  
  

Specific Skills

• Strong foundation in US GAAP accounting
• The ability and desire to be a team player is crucial
• Ability to grasp new concepts quickly
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel
• Proficient other Microsoft Office applications
• NetSuite experience a plus
• Coupa experience a plus
• Strong written and oral communication skills are mandatory

Benefits

• Medical and Dental
• 401K
• Competitive salary
• Paid time off
• Short-term disability
• Life and accident insurance
• Advancement opportunities

Our client is a leader in environmentally sustainable waste management, protecting the Earth’s Resources by helping the business world run cleaner. Their mission is to continually drive an empowered employee culture dedicated to providing premier environmentally sustainable solutions to our customers.

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