Senior Accounting Specialist - Creative Financial Staffing

Job Summary: We are currently seeking a Sr. Accounting Specialist for our Guaynabo, PR office. As a Sr. Accounting Specialist, you secure financial operations by monitoring and approving financial entries, audit reports related to payment receipts and lead accounting staff. This position also tracks every item in the bank statements and confirms with the accounting ledger.

Job Responsibilities:

• Oversight daily reconciliation processes done by other accounting specialists
• Verify daily cash deposits
• Ensures proper and accurate reconciliation of receipts in company’s accounting ledger with actual bank balance
• Monitor all banking activities
• Request and provide documentation to support all financial transactions registered in the bank statements
• Prepare monthly reconciliation package for service recipients
• Review and approve debit and credit adjustment requests
• Report customer service representative cash variances to staffing agency
• Provide input to managers regarding staff performance
• Communicate daily with the manager on daily workflow, pending items, status and other issues
• Assist manager to identify department needs
• Work directly with IT to inform, improve or solve any financial reporting issues
• Ability to meet client required deadlines
• Communicate with client to request funds transfer or any documentation regarding bank accounts
• Assist with client request when the manager is not available
• Ensure department workload is completed efficiently and that all department timelines are met
• Provide training to other department employees as directed by manager
• Notify manager of any potential situations when department metrics might be compromised
• Analyze workplace situations to determine means to increase employee’s efficiency
• Review and submit weekly escrow revenue reports to service recipients
• May need to attend to special meetings as required

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance required
• 2 to 3 years of experience in accounting or related field (Bank reconciliations, receivables specialist, financial analyst) with preferred leadership skills
• Strong analytic skills
• Must be team oriented in accomplishing department goals
• Must have the ability to work in a fact paced environment while following policies and procedures
• Must possess excellent oral and written communication skills (Spanish and English)
• Must be detail oriented
• Must display problem solving skills even under stressful conditions and deadlines
• Must be organized and possess time management skills
• Must have proficiency/intermediate skills in Microsoft Excel (v-lookups, pivot tables, complex formulas, filtering, sorting and data analysis)

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