Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Goodway Group is an independent and remote-first media and marketing services firm with a rich history and a commitment to diversity and inclusion. The Staff Accountant will support accurate financial reporting, manage general ledger accounts, and collaborate with internal teams to ensure compliance and efficiency in financial processes.
Responsibilities
- Preparing routine journal entries
- Supporting accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, and expense allocations
- Reconciling balance sheet accounts
- Investigating and resolving reconciling items
- Maintaining close checklists and supporting documentation
- Ensuring tasks are completed accurately and on schedule
- Cash and bank accounts
- Prepaids
- Accrued expenses
- Fixed assets
- Corporate credit cards
- Intercompany accounts, if applicable
- Other assigned balance sheet accounts
- Reviewing coding accuracy
- Supporting vendor payment workflows
- Reconciling AP-related accounts
- Reviewing employee expense submissions for policy compliance
- Helping resolve vendor or internal questions
- Preparing schedules for monthly financial statements
- Providing variance explanations for assigned accounts
- Supporting audit requests
- Maintaining supporting documentation
- Helping ensure reporting packages are complete and accurate
- Maintaining SOPs and process documentation
- Identifying process gaps or inconsistencies
- Supporting system clean-up and data validation
- Creating repeatable workflows for recurring accounting tasks
- Backup for processing semi-monthly payroll
- Managing monthly accruals related to payroll
- Entering specific journal entries
- Registering new employee locations with the local, state, and federal entities
- Managing 401k plan support
Skills
- You have a minimum of four years of accounting experience
- Must possess “when no one's looking” integrity and be an individual with a high level of ethics and character
- Self starter
- Must be extremely detail-oriented and able to multitask to meet deadlines
- Strong analytical, mathematical, and problem-solving skills required
- Must possess the aptitude and flexibility to understand the informational requirements of the business as it changes
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Proficiency with MS Office suite, especially Excel (more specifically pivot tables and vlookups) and PowerPoint
- Must have willingness to learn in order to grow with organization
- Must be a team player
- Experience with NetSuite and Concur preferred
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