Accountant

Job Description

Accountant | TalentBridge

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at TalentBridge, focused on supporting the day-to-day accounting activities for a diverse portfolio of entities and related operating structures. This individual will manage essential financial operations, ensuring accuracy and compliance across all assigned accounts. The position is critical for maintaining robust financial health and providing reliable data to senior accounting leadership and internal stakeholders. It offers a significant opportunity for ownership of core accounting processes.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time

• Mission: This individual will own the accounting activities for assigned entities and provide support to senior accounting leadership.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Transaction Management: Manage daily accounting activities, including precise invoice processing, thorough payment review, transaction analysis, and accurate journal entry posting. This also involves recording acquisitions, dispositions, and other significant business transactions.
• Close Process Ownership: Take ownership of monthly close activities for assigned entities, which includes performing comprehensive account reconciliations, preparing accruals, managing prepaid expenses, and generating supporting close documentation. Support quarterly close procedures, including valuation-related entries.
• General Ledger & Consolidation: Prepare and record complex journal entries, including intercompany activity, and perform consolidations and elimination entries as required. Maintain accurate general ledger accounts, supporting documentation, and reconcile subsidiary records.
• Financial Monitoring & Reporting: Monitor financial results, explain significant changes and key drivers impacting entity performance, and research accounting discrepancies. Assist with financial reporting, account analysis, corporate capital account reconciliations, and the preparation of internal and external financial reports.
• Special Projects & Process Improvement: Reconcile periodic valuations and supporting financial data. Support special projects, financial analysis, and process improvement initiatives to enhance accounting operations.

The Must-Haves
• Background: A strong academic or practical foundation in financial accounting principles, with a clear understanding of how financial transactions are recorded and flow through the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement.
• Experience: Demonstrated experience in managing full-cycle accounting activities, including daily transaction processing, comprehensive monthly close procedures, and the preparation of various journal entries, specifically for a portfolio of entities.
• Skills: Exceptional attention to detail, highly developed organizational abilities, and a proven capacity to consistently meet critical financial reporting and close deadlines.