Staff Accountant II—Chicago, IL

Buckingham Search is excited to be partnering with a household name headquartered in Chicago! They are looking to add to their corporate accounting team.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in Accounting or Finance.
• 2 or more years of broad accounting experience
• Certified Public Accountant license
• Public accounting experience

What you will be doing:

• Coordinate and participate in the monthly close process for assigned area of responsibility.
• Assist Senior Accountants and Accounting Managers in daily accounting activities and month-end closing procedures
• Analyze financial reports and records, making recommendations or seeking solutions for accounting problems before presenting issues to senior/manager.
• Analyze a moderate scope of situations or data review of a variety of factors.
• Apply company policies and procedures to resolve routine issues exercising judgment within defined accounting procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Prepare journal entries and account analyses timely and accurately.
• Review, research, and recommend improvements to analysis, reporting, billing and compliance systems.
• Respond to financial inquiries of field management providing requested information for use in effective field management of the business.
• Meet monthly schedule for reporting.

Things to get excited about:

• PTO days in addition to 6 sick days, 6 paid holidays, 1 floating holiday
• Parental leave and adoption financial assistance, tuition assistance
• $50 allowance for cell phone every month
• People get promoted quickly on this team, and isn’t uncommon for people to move to finance, supply chain, or other areas of the company
• Health, Vision, Dental, HSA, FSA, Life insurance, 401k (100% matching up to 3% and 40% matching for the next 2%) and a 100% company-funded pension plan of 3% for compensation

Posted On: Friday, September 11, 2020