Accountant

Job Description

Accountant | Georgia-Pacific LLC

The Tone:
This is an onsite role at Georgia-Pacific LLC, located in downtown Atlanta, GA, requiring a hybrid weekly in-office presence. Georgia-Pacific, a Koch company, is a leading manufacturer of various essential products including bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, and building materials, operating one of the largest recycling businesses. With over 30,000 employees across more than 150 locations, the company strives to meet evolving customer needs. This Accountant role creates significant value by providing critical accounting support and oversight for cash management and other corporate processes, directly contributing to the organization’s financial accuracy and control environment.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid – Atlanta, GA

• Team: Corporate Accounting team; reports directly to the Senior Manager of Accounting.
• Mission: This role ensures accurate financial accounting and cash management oversight to support corporate processes and strengthen the control environment.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Office Suite or Office 365 (Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, SharePoint, Copilot), Alteryx, accounting systems and tools.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Month-End Close: Assist with the month-end close process for Corporate Accounting, ensuring the accuracy of the general ledger through proper accounting treatment.
• Reconciliations: Prepare monthly/quarterly balance sheet account reconciliations, investigate differences, and determine resolutions for discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Control Environment: Contribute to the control environment by owning and applying the Internal Financial Controls (IFC) Framework.
• Process Improvement: Seek and share knowledge, identify opportunities for improvements, challenge the status quo, and propose solutions.
• Information Support: Provide ad hoc information support to other departments such as Treasury, Tax, Audit, and Business Segments.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Education or experience in an Accounting or Finance focused role requiring a working knowledge of financial accounting principles, the general ledger, month-end close, account reconciliation and analysis, and the purpose/application of internal financial controls.
• Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively; a collaboration/contribution mindset to build working relationships and solve problems; a process and transformation focused mindset to prioritize work and embrace change; systems and tools savvy with Microsoft Office Suite or Office 365 and a desire to learn multiple accounting systems and AI-enhanced processes.
• Bonus: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, or Business; one or more years of career experience in an Accounting or Analysis role (including General Ledger, Cash Management, Intercompany Transactions, Accruals, Account Reconciliations, Variance Analysis, and Month-End close support); experience driving process improvement or transformation, especially with AI tools; proficiency with extract-transform-load (ETL) tools such as Alteryx.