Staff Accountant – Trust Accounting and Financial Analysis

Job Description

Staff Accountant | Colony Brands, Inc.

The Tone:
This is a Staff Accountant role at Colony Brands, Inc., a company seeking a detail-oriented professional to support critical financial operations. This position is essential for maintaining accuracy and completeness across all accounting functions, including trust accounting, general ledger activities, and monthly close processes. The successful candidate will play a key part in ensuring robust financial reporting and supporting strategic financial insights through analysis.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Mission: Support trust accounting operations and general ledger activities, ensuring accuracy and completeness across all accounting functions.
• Tech Stack: ERP systems, Power BI, SQL, other reporting tools, advanced Excel skills

What You’ll Actually Do
• Support: Assist with trust accounting and support monthly closing processes.
• Prepare: Prepare journal entries and perform account reconciliations.
• Process: Process wire transfers and distributions under supervision.
• Review: Review general ledger activity for completeness and accuracy.
• Analyze: Analyze historical financial statements and operating results of acquisition prospects.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, with strong accounting fundamentals.
• Experience: Up to three years of relevant accounting or finance experience.
• Skills: Advanced Excel proficiency and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Bonus: Proactive problem-solving, strong relationship-building, and effective communication skills are highly valued, especially for supporting acquisition due diligence, financial modeling, and integration efforts. Preferred qualifications include experience supporting strategic planning at a corporate level, high-level knowledge of ERP systems, Power BI, SQL, or other reporting tools, a continuous improvement mindset, solution-oriented critical thinking, strong work ethic, self-motivation, organization, and the ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive financial information.