Accountant

Job Description

Staff Accountant | Raymond James

The Tone:
This is a full-time hybrid role at Raymond James, located in St. Petersburg, FL. Raymond James is a large financial services organization with over 19,000 associates. This Staff Accountant role is crucial for supporting business units by preparing essential financial statements, budgets, and other financial analysis reports, contributing to informed decision-making across the firm. The position requires a foundational understanding of accounting principles and the ability to apply them to varied, moderately complex tasks.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid – St. Petersburg, FL

• Mission: This role assists in preparing financial statements, budgets, and other financial analysis reports for business units, providing essential financial insights.
• Tech Stack: General ledger accounting software, Standard office software (spreadsheets, databases, communication tools)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Financial Reporting: Prepares financial statements, budgets, and internal reports using general ledger accounting software.
• Account Management: Analyzes and reconciles general ledger accounts, identifying unusual transactions and proposing resolutions for issues.
• Journal Entries: Creates and posts daily general ledger entries.
• Process Improvement: Maintains policy and procedure manuals and identifies opportunities to enhance processing efficiency for financial information.
• Audit Support: Gathers and prepares information in response to requests from internal and external auditors.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, with a foundational understanding of fundamental accounting concepts, practices, and procedures, including Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and accrual-based accounting.
• Experience: Requires 13 months to 3 years of general accounting experience, with two years preferred.
• Skills: Skilled in preparing financial statements, budgets, and management reports; analyzing and resolving balance discrepancies; preparing and posting journal entries; and operating standard office equipment and software applications.
• Bonus: Ability to identify and recommend changes to standard accounting procedures when required by specific situations, and to propose solutions to moderately complex accounting problems.