Specialist, Accounting
$79,500–$148,500 year
HybridColumbus, Ohio, United States
Job Summary
Lead and support Recon Assurance initiatives by problem-solving complex reconciling items, researching via GL and source systems, and communicating with business partners to resolve aged balance sheet exceptions. Present monthly status updates to Business Unit Controllers, perform reconciliation quality assurance testing, and build/maintain Power BI reporting for metric-based analytics. Drive resolution on material, high-risk, and high-volume reconciliation exceptions through collaboration with reviewers, exception owners, and Controllership. This hybrid role in Columbus, Ohio, requires on-site presence two days per week and does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization.
Required Qualifications
- Undergraduate studies in accounting, finance or business administration
- Four to six years of related accounting experience
- GAAP and/or STAT knowledge and/or functional business area regulatory requirements
- Complex financial statement preparation, including consolidation of companies/subsidiaries
- Principles of taxation and the related impact on financial statement preparation
- Accounting and/or business computer systems
- Company organizational structure and products and services
- Verbal and written communication skills for internal/external contacts
- Ability to analyze, discover and solve accounting problems
- Ability to interpret financial documents and data
- Ability to analyze and interpret legal requirements
- Project management skills
- Ability to interpret changes in financial reporting and legal requirements relative to the impact on financial statement preparation
- Ability to formulate company or business area policies and procedures
- Ability to effectively operate a personal computer and related software using advanced techniques
- Ability to apply accounting principles, theories, concepts and practices to specialized, unique and/or nonrecurring complex problems
- Valid credit and/or background check
Desired Qualifications
- Accounting major and degree
- Progress towards CPA
- Insurance experience
- Familiarization with or interested in Power BI and other technologies
- Leadership skills, competencies and experiences
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