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| Job ID: 11311125 |
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| Job Title: | Senior Accountant |
| Work Type: | Work Days: Work Vary: No , Shift: First (Day), Hours Per Week: 40, Work Type: Regular |
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| Salary Offered: | Unspecified |
| Benefits: | Unspecified. |
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| Physical Required: | Unspecified |
| Drug Testing Required: | Unspecified |
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| Experience Required: | Unspecified |
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| Required Skills: | See Job Description section for any required skills. |
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| Job Description: |
**OVERVIEW**
The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy and timely closing of the general ledger and will assist in the financial reporting efforts of the accounting team. Coordinate the month and year end reporting to Division as well as interim and year end audits. Ensure all revenue, cost of sales and G&A- related activity is accurately reported and communicated to management. Ensure financial accounts are reconciled; issues investigated and resolved timely enabling accurate financial reporting. This position is critical to the overall control environment. This position will be part of the North American-Accounting Center (NA-AC) Organization. The NA-AC organization focuses on building accounting expertise in a tower structure: Record to Report, Procure to Pay and Order to Cash and provides support to the businesses of Wolters Kluwer North America in a standardized, harmonized, and high-quality manner.
**LOCATION:** Houston TX (preferred), St. Cloud MN, Remote
**DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**
+ Demonstrated ability to meet assigned deadlines and deliver on goals and objectives
+ Demonstrated ability to analyze, record and report all revenue related transactions in a timely, complete and accurate manner
+ Demonstrated ability to analyze, record and report inventory, cost of sales, and General & Administrative expenses and related transactions in a timely, complete and accurate manner
+ Proactively conduct independent analysis to identify trend changes or opportunities for process improvements and make recommendations based on analysis and status of reserves, assets and liabilities
+ Develop strong relationships with the business through solid business acumen; respectfully challenge the status quo and offer solutions to resolve issues in an effective, cost efficient manner
+ Actively participate in the month end reporting and review of financial reports processes
+ Ensure timely and accurate reconciliation of general ledger accounts
+ Proactively develop Ad Hoc analysis and reporting sets in support of the monthly closing and review process
+ Proactivity and independently identify risks or opportunities to the balance sheet and income statements accounts along with recommendations to resolve or reduce risk exposure
+ Assist in the formulation of monthly and annual reporting requirements and preparation of respective deliverables
+ Assist in the coordination of internal and external audits
+ Participate/coordinate accounting or cross-business unit finance projects to identify and implement process improvements and process streamlining
+ Assist in ensuring the internal control environment documentation is in place and is being followed
+ Demonstrate ability to constructively challenge the status quo to improve processes, reduce manual work efforts and improve timeliness of resulting deliverables
**QUALIFICATIONS**
**Education:**
+ Bachelor's degree in accounting (or equivalent, relevant experience)
**Experience:**
+ 3+ years of previous accounting/audit experience in public or private accounting
+ Experience with revenue recognition transactions
+ Strong reporting and data querying capabilities
+ Experience with Net Suite, MS Dynamics AX and JDE is preferred
+ Thorough knowledge of MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
+ Strong analytical skills
**Preferred Experience**
+ CPA/working towards the license
+ Project management experience
**Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes**
+ Demonstrated effective ability to constructively and respectfully challenge business unit partners to ensure accuracy of accounting while assisting the business to meet its objectives
+ Detail oriented approach to work; ability to maintain confidentiality; strong problem-solving skills
+ Ability to work independently and in a team environment
+ Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
+ Willingness to take initiative and to follow through on projects
+ Must be proactive and recommend solutions when discussing problems
**Travel:** For a Houston-based candidate - 10% - mostly travel for department meetings.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Wolters Kluwer U. S. Corporation and all of its subsidiaries, divisions and customer/business units is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. <script id="detrack" defer src="https://d2e48ltfsb5exy.cloudfront.net/p/t.js?i=0,1" data-g="3991f4873c5a474cb51682c5215497a7152"></script>
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