Staff Accountant - RJ Bank
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Job overview
The Staff Accountant at RJ Bank prepares monthly financial statements and performs general ledger closing procedures. The role researches unusual transactions and GAAP issues, reconciles accounts, responds to auditor concerns, and works with internal departments to resolve outstanding items. It also recommends process improvements, resolves complex accounting problems, and assists with training others.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Full job description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
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Uses general ledger accounting software to prepare journal entries for monthly financial statements.
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Researches and makes recommendations to resolve unusual or irregular transactions.
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Reconciles general ledger accounts, prepares analyses and completes other monthly general ledger closing procedures.
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Responds to internal/external auditor issues and problems.
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Responsible for balances in clearing and suspense accounts, works with other internal departments to resolve outstanding items.
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Researches issues regarding application of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to allocating costs and preparing financial statements.
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Recommends process improvements to increase efficiency in processing or analyzing financial information.
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Assists in training others.
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Resolves complex accounting problems.
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Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Knowledge of:
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Advanced accounting concepts, practices and procedures.
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Accrual based accounting practices.
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Accounting software packages.
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Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
Skill in:
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Reviewing, interpreting, and analyzing financial statements.
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Strong attention to detail
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Resolving unusual transaction and accounting discrepancies.
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Microsoft Excel, including VLOOKUP and Pivot Tables.
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Allocating costs between entities.
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Operating standard office equipment and using required software applications to produce correspondence, reports, electronic communication, spreadsheets, and complex databases.
Ability to:
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Implement changes to standard procedures when required by specific situations and circumstances.
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Make independent decisions and solve complex accounting problems.
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Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with all organizational levels.
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Explain or clarify financial information to all levels of management.
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Provide training to others.
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Organize, manage and track multiple detailed tasks and assignments with frequently changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment.
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Provide a high level of customer service.
How this job compares
Set against the 4,887 open Accounting jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Florida median$94–130K/yr82 salary ranges
- US median$25–30/hr439 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 190 open Accounting jobs in Florida and 4,887 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Florida
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- Experience
- Accounting postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (3,589 postings).
- Education
- 2,467 of the 4,887 open Accounting jobs (50%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 30, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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