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Lincoln Financial · 2 hours ago

Corporate Accounting Specialist

United States

Full-time

Remote

Entry, Mid Level

$54K/yr - $96K/yr

2+ years exp

Lincoln Financial is a company that helps people confidently plan for their future. They are seeking a Corporate Accounting Specialist responsible for performing monthly and quarterly accounting processes, including journal entry preparation, account reconciliations, and ensuring compliance with accounting policies.

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Responsibilities

You will prepare, record, analyze, and report accounting transactions and ensure the integrity of accounting records for completeness, accuracy and compliance with accepted accounting policies and principles, and compliance with internal controls and SOX

You will perform standard accounting activities, including preparing, classifying, recording, maintaining, and reconciling the General Ledger accounts, sub-ledgers and subsystems in compliance with accepted accounting policies and principles

You will record and maintain records to support monthly and quarterly accruals, prepaids and other accounting entries as necessary and analyze monthly expenses for variances

You will supervise and review integrated team members work through review and posting of journal entries, review of reconciliations, and all other areas of assigned responsibilities

You will determine classifications and record financial transactions applying accounting technique, standard practices and accepted accounting policies and principles

You will work with management and other internal team members on fixed asset capitalization activities to ensure assets and depreciation are completely and accurately recorded in the General Ledger

You will work with business partners across the Company to implement accounting solutions to maintain budgetary compliance

You will identify, research and resolve discrepancies or out-of-balance situations amongst assigned General Ledger Accounts

You will maintain a thorough understanding of the business operations, financial reporting and the General Ledger structure

You will assist with the preparation of quarterly and year-end work papers to support the Company's reporting requirements and provide internal and external audit support as needed

You will provide ad hoc analysis in support of management

You will identify and communicate process improvements that reduce workloads or improve quality. You will promote and enhance organizational initiatives by positively influencing and supporting change management and/or departmental/enterprise initiatives for your area

Qualification

Accounting principlesGeneral Ledger managementJournal entry preparationCPA certificationMicrosoft Office SuiteAnalytical skillsMultitasking abilityProblem-solving skillsCommunication skills

Required

4 Year/Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience (4 years of experience in lieu of Bachelor's)

2+ Years of experience in accounting that directly aligns to the responsibilities of this position

Ability to understand and apply accounting principles such as accrual basis of accounting including accruals and prepaids and depreciation and amortization concepts

Ability to work in a dynamic and ever-changing environment

Demonstrates a sense of urgency with the ability to work independently, multitask and meet deadlines

Thinks critically with excellent analytical, interpretive and problem-solving skills

Ability to make suggestions for improvement, learn new skills, procedures and processes

Remains current in profession and industry trends

Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)