Global Staff Accountant

The Staff Accountant supports accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting for the organization. This role owns assigned general ledger accounts from transaction processing through reconciliation and analysis, supports monthly close activities, and partners with internal teams to ensure proper accounting treatment in a fast-paced advertising agency environment. The Staff Accountant serves as the primary accounting resource for payroll-related transactions, incentive compensation accounting, treasury activities, and selected compliance functions. This role will lead the implementation of a scalable commission and incentive management solution and support ongoing process improvements that increase automation, accuracy, and efficiency across Finance.

Responsibilities

Support accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting; Own assigned general ledger accounts from transaction processing through reconciliation and analysis; Support monthly close activities; Partner with internal teams to ensure proper accounting treatment; Serve as primary accounting resource for payroll-related transactions, incentive compensation accounting, treasury activities, and selected compliance functions; Lead implementation of a scalable commission and incentive management solution; Support ongoing process improvements that increase automation, accuracy, and efficiency across Finance; Own or support recurring close activities including journal entries, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, expense allocations, balance sheet reconciliations, and close checklists; Reconcile cash, bank accounts, prepaids, accrued expenses, fixed assets, corporate credit cards, intercompany and other assigned accounts; Support accounts payable coding, vendor payment workflows, employee expense submissions, and resolve vendor/internal questions; Prepare schedules for monthly financial statements, provide variance explanations, support audit requests, and maintain supporting documentation; Maintain SOPs and process documentation; Identify process gaps; Support system clean-up and data validation; Create repeatable workflows; Backup for processing semi-monthly payroll; Manage monthly payroll accruals; Enter specific journal entries; Register new employee locations with local, state, and federal entities; Manage 401k plan support

Requirements

Minimum of four years of accounting experience; Must possess 'when no one’s looking' integrity and high level of ethics and character; Self starter; Must be extremely detail-oriented and able to multitask to meet deadlines; Strong analytical, mathematical, and problem-solving skills; Must possess aptitude and flexibility to understand informational requirements of the business as it changes; Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; Proficiency with MS Office suite, especially Excel (pivot tables and vlookups) and PowerPoint; Must have willingness to learn in order to grow with organization; Must be a team player

Nice to have

Experience with NetSuite; Experience with Concur