Staff Accountant

We are looking for a detail-oriented Staff Accountant to join our team, on a Contract basis. This role will focus on strengthening the accuracy of financial records by resolving historical account issues and supporting a dependable monthly close process. The ideal candidate brings strong reconciliation experience, sound accounting judgment, and the ability to organize incomplete financial information into clear, review-ready documentation.

Responsibilities:

• Examine the general ledger in depth to uncover posting errors, unsupported balances, duplicate activity, and long-outstanding reconciling items.

• Restore and resolve complex balance sheet reconciliations across cash, premium trust, receivables, payables, suspense accounts, and unapplied cash balances.

• Match historical carrier activity, commission-related balances, and payable records to detailed underlying policy transactions, researching discrepancies as needed.

• Prepare clear variance summaries, supporting schedules, and adjusting journal entries for review and approval by accounting leadership.

• Maintain a structured remediation log that tracks open accounting issues, aging status, ownership, and expected completion timelines.

• Manage recurring month-end responsibilities, including reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, prepaid activity, allocations, and supporting close schedules.

• Analyze monthly account fluctuations and document business drivers behind material changes or unusual balances.

• Create and refine process documentation, reconciliation templates, and approved improvements that strengthen controls and streamline accounting workflow

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a closely related field.

• At least 2 years of progressive accounting experience with direct responsibility for general ledger activity and balance sheet reconciliations.

• Proven success resolving aged, incomplete, or unreconciled accounts rather than only maintaining already-stable reconciliations.

• Strong understanding of accrual-based accounting principles and month-end close procedures.

• Advanced Excel capabilities, including working with lookup formulas, pivot tables, and high-volume account analysis.

• Demonstrated analytical skill in identifying root causes, researching discrepancies, and recommending corrective action.

• Ability to manage multiple deadlines while balancing cleanup efforts with recurring accounting deliverables.

Compensation

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