Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PIXIE is seeking a Staff Accountant Contractor to support day-to-day accounts payable operations, month-end close activities, and external audit coordination. The role is responsible for processing payments, preparing journal entries and reconciliations, maintaining internal control documentation, resolving discrepancies, and performing accounting analyses and special projects.
Responsibilities
- Review invoices for proper coding and indexing
- Coordinate payment runs, initiate wires, apply payments
- Prepare month-end journal entries and reconciliations
- Work closely with internal teams such as HR, Marketing, Tax and Treasury teams to ensure day-to-day operational needs are met and accounting entries are properly recorded
- Maintain documentation of internal controls in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act
- Apply knowledge and experience with advanced accounting principles to assess the accuracy and proper entry of financial data and documentation
- Identify and recommend solutions to resolve discrepancies
- Perform special projects or ad hoc analyses, as required
Skills
- 7+ years of accounting experience and strong base knowledge in the practice and application of US GAAP
- 3+ years of accounts payable processing
- Strong analytical, technical accounting and problem-solving skills
- Ability to recognize fixed assets and prepaid invoices based on policy
- Advanced Excel skills
- Strong attention to detail and organization, with ability to work independently as well as in a group environment
- Ability to meet strict time-sensitive deadlines
- Ability to produce complex, detailed accounting reconciliations that are easy to interpret for auditors
- Outstanding interpersonal, communication and business partnering skills with demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and at various levels within a company
- Ability to analyze large quantities of complex data and research accounting data through sub-ledgers and the GL and draw logical conclusions
- Demonstrate understanding of debits and credits and of the multi-relational impact of the balance sheet, P&L and cash flow statement and how journal entries affect each statement
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, a plus
- Experience working with Microsoft Dynamics AX, Blackline, Concur or Vndly, a plus
- Experience working with foreign subsidiaries and currency translation, a plus
- Experience working with international subsidiaries and multi-currency, a plus
Benefits
- Remote work
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