DescriptionSenior AccountantMilwaukee, WI- HybridPosition Summary
Reporting to the Manager, the Senior Accountant will be responsible for working as a part of a team providing accounting services to various clients.
What will you do in this role?
- Consult with clients on various internal accounting related transactions, as needed.
- Process payroll, tax returns, and general bookkeeping functions for external clients.
- Work on a variety of different projects, as needed.
- Understanding of payroll compliance taxes, as well as state reporting requirements
- Handle account and bank reconciliations, compile and post journal entries, and prepare and review financial statements.
- Develop self and others through seeking and offering on the job coaching and engagement experiences.
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with clients to enhance customer satisfaction.
- Build strong credibility through displaying positive insight and business acumen, applying technical competence and engaging in relevant discussions with clients and engagement teams.
- Provide strategic and tactical accounting advice and recommendations to firm's clientele.
- Deliver exceptional client support virtually and hybrid as needed.
What do you need to succeed in this role?
- BA/BS Degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years' experience in payroll processing, pay tax returns, general ledger, and financial statement preparation
- Strong technical accounting skills with proficiency in US GAAP and GAAS.
- Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing priorities in a rapidly growing, fast-paced, interactive, results-based team environment.
- Strong leadership, recruiting, training, and mentoring skills, coupled with excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
- CPA certification or eligibility to sit is highly desirable.
- Strong computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and audit preparation software.
- Comfort with virtual work environment and hybrid fieldwork as needed.
In compliance with this state's pay transparency laws, the midpoint of the salary range for this role is $85,000. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.
In addition, specific skills/experience required are as follows:
- Values driven - You embody and model absolute integrity and servant leadership and you have a bias for action and continuous innovation.
- Uncompromising problem solver - You see opportunities in every business challenge and can develop, articulate and implement solutions.
- Collaboration - You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units.
- Instills trust - You do what you say, without ego, and you follow through on commitments consistently and credibly.
- Impact & influence - You are relentlessly focused on making a difference and can gain support for ideas, proposals and solutions. You get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives and objectives.
Sikich Total Rewards
Our team members enjoy expansive benefits ranging from competitive compensation and insurance options to wellness programs and a flexible time off policy, to name only a few. Sikich also takes pride in prioritizing team members' health, total wellbeing and time spent with family, friends and in the pursuit of personal goals, hobbies, and endeavors.
Some examples of our many benefits:
- Sikich maintains a Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy. We encourage every full-time employee, as your role permits, to utilize paid time off (personal time, mental/physical health care, vacation, sick leave, etc.). Waiting for time off to accrue is common at other companies. At Sikich, you do not have to wait for this benefit to kick in. FTO is activated on your first day with our organization.
- Sikich will also recognize paid holidays during the year and strives to permit employees to have time off the last week of the calendar year when client and project work permits.
- Sikich offers a comprehensive wellness program to engage, challenge and empower team members to take responsibility for their wellbeing. Activities can be tracked through our wellness provider to obtain gift cards and other rewards.
We also offer:
- Flexible work arrangements
- Health, dental, vision, life, and accident/death/disability insurance options
- HSA employer contribution
- Nine (9) paid holidays annually.
- A robust paid Parental Bonding Leave program covering birth, adoption, and foster children.
- 401(k) with employer contributions
- CPA bonus with four (4) paid exam days & four (4) paid study days.
- Tuition reimbursement
- Generous employee referral bonus program
- Client referral bonus program
- Pet insurance
- FORCE - Sikich community volunteer program enabling each team member to use up to four hours of paid time annually to volunteer and make a difference in their local communities.
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