Staff Accountant
Hightower Advisors is a wealth management firm that provides investment and financial planning services. They are seeking a Staff Accountant to manage month-end close tasks, prepare bank reconciliations, and ensure the accuracy of financial data while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Month-end close task ownership
- Prepare detailed monthly bank reconciliations in Oracle and Blackline
- Proactively review general ledger transaction details throughout the month to streamline month-end close timelines, and ensure the accuracy and completeness of information recorded
- Balance sheet focus through broader account and activity reconciliations
- Independently resolve accounting discrepancies and irregularities
- Identify trends, opportunities, and risks, and recommend actions to enhance financial performance
- Analyze actual results across multiple reporting segments and provide explanations for variance to plan and prior year (P&L + BS)
- Expense accounting review
- Support annual financial audits, ensuring all audit requirements and inquiries are met in a timely and accurate manner
- Propose improvements to internal controls to mitigate risks and maintain compliance
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate financial data and information flow across the organization
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or equivalent experience
- 1-3 years of experience
- Strong technical and analytical skills
- Time management and multi-tasking ability
- Detail-oriented
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work with a team
- Required - Excel (specifically VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, and Data Sorting)
- Proactively review general ledger transaction details throughout the month to streamline month-end close timelines, and ensure the accuracy and completeness of information recorded
- Balance sheet focus through broader account and activity reconciliations
- Independently resolve accounting discrepancies and irregularities
- Identify trends, opportunities, and risks, and recommend actions to enhance financial performance
- Analyze actual results across multiple reporting segments and provide explanations for variance to plan and prior year (P&L + BS)
- Expense accounting review
- Support annual financial audits, ensuring all audit requirements and inquiries are met in a timely and accurate manner
- Propose improvements to internal controls to mitigate risks and maintain compliance
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate financial data and information flow across the organization
- CPA Preferred
- Preferred – Oracle Cloud, Smart View
Benefits
- Coverage on the first day of employment for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid parental leave (16 weeks for primary caregiver and 8 weeks for secondary caregiver)
- Mother’s lounge onsite
- Flexible PTO plan
- In-office Monday through Thursday and work from home on Fridays
- Free brand-new gym in the Chicago office
- 401k matching plan
- HSA employer contributions
- Student loan assistance
- Pet insurance
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