Accounting Project Specialist

Description

Robert Half is seeking experienced accounting professionals for year-end project assignments with clients across the Bay Area. These opportunities are ideal for accountants who enjoy working in fast-paced environments and can quickly step in to support critical year-end initiatives, clean-up projects, reconciliations, audit preparation, and backlog reduction efforts.

The ideal candidate has strong general accounting experience, excellent Excel skills, and the ability to work independently with minimal training.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist with year-end close and financial reporting activities.

• Perform high-volume account reconciliations and resolve discrepancies.

• Prepare and post journal entries and accruals.

• Review and clean up general ledger accounts.

• Support external audit requests and prepare audit schedules.

• Reconcile bank, credit card, intercompany, and balance sheet accounts.

• Assist with fixed asset reconciliations and depreciation schedules.

• Support AP, AR, and payroll clean-up projects.

• Review historical transactions for accuracy and compliance.

• Prepare supporting schedules and documentation for financial statements.

• Participate in system conversions, process improvements, and special accounting projects as needed.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field preferred.

• 3+ years of accounting experience.

• Strong understanding of:

• Month-end and year-end close

• General ledger accounting

• Account reconciliations

• Journal entries and accruals

• Financial reporting

• GAAP principles

• Experience with at least one ERP or accounting system, such as:

• NetSuite

• SAP

• Oracle

• Microsoft Dynamics

• Sage Intacct

• QuickBooks

• Yardi

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including PivotTables, XLOOKUPs, and analysis of large data sets.

Common Project Areas

• Audit preparation

• Backlog clean-up

• Reconciliation projects

• General ledger clean-up

• System implementation support

• Fixed asset reviews

• Revenue and expense analysis

• Balance sheet account reviews

• Financial statement preparation

• Process documentation and internal control projects

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