US Accounting - Staff (Night Shift)

About the firm:

Citrin Cooperman is seeking a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Staff for the firm's India office. We are a growing, nationally recognized full-service accounting, tax, and consulting firm with over 1,350 partners and staff and 17 offices. The firm was founded in 1979 by Joel Cooperman and Niles Citrin and today is the 22nd largest accounting and consulting firm in the United States, and 4th among mid-Atlantic firms. Our daily mission is to help our clients "focus on what counts." We're driven to meet this mission by our passion for providing clients with an objective viewpoint and insightful advice on whatever challenges they bring to the table.

Qualifications:

Technical:

• Fresh Chartered Accountant/CPA OR Masters with 2+ years of experience in accounting, preferably US accounting.
• Strong conceptual accounting knowledge.
• Well acquainted with software/applications like Excel, Word, QBO, Xero, SAGE, NetSuite, Yardi etc.
• Have strong time management and organizational skills
• Be a self-starter, highly collaborative, creative, outgoing, and possesses strong financial analysis, modeling, and valuation skills
• Have strong qualitative and quantitative research and analytical abilities
• Good written and spoken communication skills.
• Be able to work as a part of a team, follow instructions and have excellent work ethics.

Administrative:

• Complies with Firm/BPO department policies.
• Uses down time effectively and complying with Firms CPE requirement.
• Well-organized with ability to prioritize

Job Description:

Responsibilities include, but not limited to

• Performing various accounting functions on US clients’ files including posting and reconciling Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payable, Bank and Credit Card transactions, Payroll, general Journal entries etc.
• Preparing workpapers, accounting schedules and extracting and preparation of various management reposts per clients’ needs.
• Assisting on projects like accounting clean-up, books rebuild, software migration, account adjustments as required, furnishing information to other departments as may be necessary.
• Learning new software and develop new technological skills required to perform accounting and financial reporting.
• Adhering to deadlines of the tasks assigned and keeping the reviewer updated on the progress.
• Self-reviewing work for accuracy and completeness to ensure quality product before submitting to reviewer/manager.
• Preparing SOP for the task assigned and updating the same on regular intervals.
• Adhering to the firm’s internal policies, procedures, and controls.
• Work with both India-based and US-based staff on an ongoing basis to collaborate on performing transactional activities, technical accounting activities & reporting activities.