Title: Accountant

Location: Overland Park, KS

Duration: 7 months contract with a high possibility of further extension.

Position:

• At least 3 years relevant experience required. Development, implementation and/or maintenance of one or more accounting systems.
• Responsible for journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analysis in accordance with GAAP, IFRS and DT policies and procedures.
• Support business processes and make recommendations in order to improve and support business systems and activities.
• Understand the transactional flow through the various systems to monitor and ensure accurate financial results.
• Solid understanding of ERP system including sub-modules.
• May assist in the setup of processes and procedures that properly capture, track and report financial transactions.
• May generate ad-hoc reports for internal and/or external use.
• May interpret reports and records for managers/stakeholders.
• May be involved in reviewing, tracking and maintaining information in the financial systems, ensuring accuracy and compliance with IFRS, GAAP and other accounting regulations.
• May be involved in quarterly and annual financial audit as well as supporting SOX control program.
• May assist in the setup of processes and procedures that properly capture, track and report financial transactions.
• May generate ad-hoc reports for internal and/or external use. May interpret reports and records for managers/stakeholders.
• May be involved in reviewing, tracking and maintaining information in the financial systems, ensuring accuracy and compliance with IFRS, GAAP and other accounting regulations.
• May be involved in quarterly and annual financial audit as well as supporting SOX control program.
• Record journal entries, reconcile general ledger accounts and identify opportunities for improvement to processes or format.
• Learns business drivers and their effect on financial results.
• Ensure accounting records, monthly accounting close activities, and variance analyses are adequately and properly prepared, maintained and explained in a timely manner.
• Ability to manipulate and manage large volumes of transactional level data.
• Use accounting concepts, experience, analytical skills and knowledge of industry to resolve issues in creative and effective ways and ensure that appropriate judgment is applied.
• Maintains, and coordinates the implementation of accounting control procedures.
• Produce accurate and timely ad-hoc reporting from multiple data sources to perform analysis.
• Must be able to interpret results and summarize in a meaningful format.
• Participate in cross departmental projects.
• Ability to understand business changes and articulate accounting guidelines in support of effort.