**Essential Duties and Responsibilities** • Uses general ledger accounting software to prepare journal entries for monthly financial statements, and schedules for management reports. • Researches and makes recommendations to resolve unusual or irregular transactions. • Reconciles general ledger accounts, prepares analyses and completes other monthly general ledger closing procedures. • Responds to internal/external auditor issues and problems. • Responsible for balances in clearing and suspense accounts, works with other internal departments to resolve outstanding items. • Researches issues regarding application of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to allocating costs and preparing financial statements. • Recommends process improvements to increase efficiency in processing or analyzing financial information. • Assists in training others. • Resolves complex accounting problems. • Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned. **Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities** **Knowledge of** • Advanced accounting concepts, practices and procedures. • Accrual based accounting practices. • Accounting software packages. • Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). **Skill in** • Reviewing, interpreting, and analyzing financial statements. Strong attention to detail • Resolving unusual transaction and accounting discrepancies. • Microsoft Excel, including VLOOKUP and Pivot Tables. • Allocating costs between entities. • Operating standard office equipment and using required software applications to produce correspondence, reports, electronic communication, spreadsheets, and complex databases. **Ability to** • Implement changes to standard procedures when required by specific situations and circumstances. • Make independent decisions and solve complex accounting problems. • Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with all organizational levels. • Explain or clarify financial information to all levels of management. • Provide training to others. • Organize, manage and track multiple detailed tasks and assignments with frequently changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment. • Provide a high level of customer service. *****CPA not required*****