Staff Accountant and Assistant

JobGiraffe is an employment agency that has 4 offices in the Chicago-land area and places thousands of people yearly in great jobs of salaries up to $100k!

Our client, a small but mighty engineering and consulting firm, has an immediate opening for a Staff Accountant and Assistant to the CFO.

• Learning the services and financial procedures of the company
• Supporting monthly and year-end reconciliations and reports
• Performing financial analysis as required
• Working with and providing financial data to external auditors
• Assisting with A/R and A/P
• Generating, distributing and processing invoices
• Processing expense reports
• Providing data entry support in Excel when needed
• Assisting with light collections
• Assisting in the annual budgeting process
• Helping to implement new accounting/financial software
• Completing special accounting projects for and with the CFO as needed

• A bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance AND on-the-job experience through internships, part-time and/or summer jobs
• OR at least two years of college-level accounting and/or finance coursework but no degree AND one year of full-time general accounting, A/P or A/R experience
• OR no degree or college-level accounting and/or finance coursework AND actual staff accounting experience
• Advanced Word and Excel skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent computer skills
• Previous experience with Sage and/or other CRM software is a plus.