Senior General Accountant

Job Summary: Do you love numbers?  We are looking for a Senior General Accountant to join a growing team.  Responsibilities include:
•    Lead and take ownership of projects from start to finish. This includes identifying a project timeline and resources needed and managing the project to ensure it is completed accurately and timely.
•    Prepare and process certain monthly and annual financial close processes in an accurate and timely fashion. May also include preparation of monthly financial statements for distribution to ownership and senior management.
•    Provide detailed account and activity analysis to prepare certain general ledger journal entries.
•    Prepare/maintain monthly analysis and reconciliations for the year-end financial close process.
•    Review and maintain audit schedules for the year-end audit process.
•    Participate in the budget process, prepare the appropriate schedules and analysis.
•    Ensure certain general ledger transactions are recorded and classified accurately and timely.
•    Responsibility for tracking and maintaining fixed assets.
•    Certain cost accounting responsibilities, including analysis of cost of sales variances, developing profitability analysis for the sales quoting process, analyzing product mix analysis, bill of material and routing analysis, etc.
•    Preparations and filings of Corporate sales & use, property, franchise tax returns.
•    Support International divisions with monthly close.
•    Provide support when needed to the general accountants.
•    Assist in identifying areas of improvement and developing procedures within the team to improve efficiency (Work Instructions).

Location: Highland, IL
Position type: Full time, Direct Hire
Pay: $90,000/yr - $103,500/yr, BOE
Benefits Provided by Client: Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance, 401k, PTO, holiday pay. Sick pay, bereavement, tuition reimbursement

Qualifications
•    Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related Business degree.
•    Minimum of 5 years' experience.
•    Ability to apply a broad knowledge of accounting principles to a variety of corporate accounting activities ranging from routine daily transactions to complex analyses.
•    Proficiency in Microsoft Office and experience in Oracle software is a plus.
•    Willingness to travel as needed.

How To Apply: Submit a completed application to the Edwardsville location at www.expresspros.com or email your resume to Rachael.Gourley@expresspros.com with any questions or inquiries!