Accountant

Job Description

Accountant | Georgia-Pacific LLC

The Tone:
This is an onsite Accountant role at Georgia-Pacific LLC, located in downtown Atlanta, GA, with some hybrid flexibility requiring weekly in-office presence. Georgia-Pacific, a Koch company with over 30,000 employees, is a leading manufacturer of various products including bath tissue, paper towels, packaging, and building materials, and operates one of the largest recycling businesses. This role provides essential accounting support and oversight of cash management and other corporate processes, creating significant value for the organization. The Accountant will enjoy fiduciary accounting, process improvement, and the opportunity to influence and grow within the company.

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

• Team: Corporate Accounting team; reports to the Senior Manager of Accounting.
• Mission: To provide accounting support and oversight for cash management and corporate processes, ensuring accuracy and contributing to the internal control environment.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Office Suite or Office 365 (Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, SharePoint, Copilot); Alteryx (bonus).

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

The Must-Haves
• Background: Education or experience in an Accounting or Finance focused role(s) that requires 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.
• Experience: One or more years of career experience in an Accounting or Analysis role, specifically working in the General Ledger, Cash Management, Intercompany Transactions, Accruals, Account Reconciliations, Variance Analysis, and supporting Month-End close.
• Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; a collaboration/contribution mindset; process and transformation focused, including flexibility, prioritization, embracing change, and improving processes; 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; experience driving process improvement or transformation, especially with AI tools; proficiency with extract-transform-load (ETL) tools such as Alteryx.