Career Opportunities > Staff Accountant

Department: Finance
Location: Stamford, CT USA
Posted: 06/16/2009
Requisition Number: FIN-090616-StaffAccnt

1 opening
Full-time (exempt)

• Daily cash management – Perform daily reporting of cash position, calculation of funding requests or repayments under the company’s short term lending facility, preparation and submission of daily funding request.
• Account reconciliations – Monthly analysis of all activity affecting balance sheet accounts with particular emphasis on prepaid assets, accrued expenses and royalty accounts.
• Fixed assets – Review and follow-up on all open capital expenditure requests (CER) for timely closing and posting to fixed asset system in the U.S. per the Company’s capitalization and depreciation policies.
• Journal entries / monthly close – Preparation and entry of required entries for the monthly close within the established timeframe.
• Review of certain corporate P&L areas.
• Maintain schedule of rents for the US operations.

• Bachelor's degree from accredited university in Accounting or Finance.
• 3 - 5 years experience in a similar position.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal. Should be comfortable working with various departments via telephone and e-mail to obtain requested explanations and information.
• Strong MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) mandatory.
• General Ledger package, JDE preferred but not mandatory.
• Ability to meet deadlines while maintaining accuracy.
• Must be able to perform account reconciliations quickly and accurately, requesting additional information when necessary.
• Must possess general accounting acumen in the areas of prepaid assets, amortization and depreciation, accrued expenses.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to exercise judgment in the area of interest expense minimization when making source of loaned funds decisions.
• Work environment is office setting requiring sitting, standing, lifting of papers, documents and binders typically weighing less than 20 lbs. and working with computer equipment (eg. Keyboard, mouse and monitor).
• Local candidates from the tri-state area only, please! We will not be able to provide relocation assistance at this time.

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university in Accounting or Finance.

• Please forward a resume in either Word or PDF format to Stamford.Positions@elizabetharden.com. You must indicate the job title in the subject line of your email.