Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Northwestern Mutual is a major financial services company seeking an Accountant for a remote contract position. The role performs day-to-day transactional accounting for field offices, including accounts payable, commission processing, journal entries, reconciliations, payroll and 1099 processing, and period-end close procedures.
Responsibilities
- Perform transactional accounting for field offices using JD Edwards
- Process vouchers and enter journal entries (credits/debits)
- Process commissions and perform period-closing reconciliations on a monthly basis
- Participate in payroll and 1099 processing
- Assist in the training of new contractors
- Maintain relationships with assigned offices and work on office-specific accounting projects
Skills
- * Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
- * Formal accounting education and understanding of accounting principles
- * Proven ability to create and process journal entries (credits/debits)
- * Ability to organize and prioritize tasks in a dynamic environment
- * Technologically savvy with proficiency in Microsoft Excel (maintain and manipulate worksheets) and Outlook (email and calendaring)
- * Professional communication skills and proper grammar for frequent communication with field offices
Benefits
- Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years
- The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years
- Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average)
- Behavioral Health Platform
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
- Voluntary Term Life Insurance
- 401K
- Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
- Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)
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