Senior Corporate Accountant

Senior Accountant

The Senior Accountant ensures the timely and accurate completion of monthly, quarterly, and yearly close of ESE project-based accounting for engineering projects in CAS (Cost Accounting System).

Essential Duties & Responsibilities :

• Maintain the Engineering projects in CAS (Cost Accounting System) and provide financial information to Engineer managers.
• Setting up projects, keeping track of Engineer hours, and ensuring timely approval of their timesheets.
• Review monthly activity reports for accuracy and prepare the monthly invoices with supporting documents.
• Prepare monthly project reconciliations, account analysis, and journal entry preparations.
• Prepare and maintain WIP and engineering labor and after-closing hours reports.
• Prepare contract labor and book necessary accruals for month end.
• Resolve any discrepancy in hours, timesheets, and department numbers. Make necessary adjustments in a journal entry booked for each department.
• Analyze project status reports and develop action plans for variance, including the review of unbilled and deferred revenue.
• Prepare and maintain transfer tax schedules.
• Prepare accurate departmental financial statements.
• Assist with month-end and year-end closing processes.
• Prepare and distribute necessary financial reports to program managers for review.
• Assist with the ESE engineering budget and forecasts.
• Support and prepare various account reconciliations.
• Various other general accounting duties as they are needed.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned by the group's management team.

The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for the performance of this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements.

Qualifications :

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, ability and / or physical demands required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education - Bachelor's Degree in Accounting required.

Experience / Special Knowledge / Skills :

Physical Demands / Work Environment : Normal amount of sitting or standing, average mobility to move around an office environment, able to conduct normal amount of work at a computer, may require travel.

Awareness, Unity, Empowerment :

At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That's why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously.

Worker Type : Regular / Permanent

Group : Magna Exteriors