Global Staff Accountant

The Staff Accountant supports accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting for the organization. This role owns assigned general ledger accounts from transaction processing through reconciliation and analysis, supports monthly close activities, and partners with internal teams to ensure proper accounting treatment in a fast-paced advertising agency environment.

The Staff Accountant serves as the primary accounting resource for payroll-related transactions, incentive compensation accounting, treasury activities, and selected compliance functions. This role will lead the implementation of a scalable commission and incentive management solution and support ongoing process improvements that increase automation, accuracy, and efficiency across Finance.

Month-End Close Support

The Staff Accountant would own or support recurring close activities, including:

• →Preparing routine journal entries
• →Supporting accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, and expense allocations
• →Reconciling balance sheet accounts
• →Investigating and resolving reconciling items
• →Maintaining close checklists and supporting documentation
• →Ensuring tasks are completed accurately and on schedule

Account Reconciliations

• →Cash and bank accounts
• →Prepaids
• →Accrued expenses
• →Fixed assets
• →Corporate credit cards
• →Intercompany accounts, if applicable
• →Other assigned balance sheet accounts

Accounts Payable / Expense Support

• →Reviewing coding accuracy
• →Supporting vendor payment workflows
• →Reconciling AP-related accounts
• →Reviewing employee expense submissions for policy compliance
• →Helping resolve vendor or internal questions

Financial Reporting Support

• →Preparing schedules for monthly financial statements
• →Providing variance explanations for assigned accounts
• →Supporting audit requests
• →Maintaining supporting documentation
• →Helping ensure reporting packages are complete and accurate

Process and Documentation

• →Maintaining SOPs and process documentation
• →Identifying process gaps or inconsistencies
• →Supporting system clean-up and data validation
• →Creating repeatable workflows for recurring accounting tasks

Payroll Responsibilities

• →Backup for processing semi-monthly payroll
• →Managing monthly accruals related to payroll
• →Entering specific journal entries
• →Registering new employee locations with the local, state, and federal entities
• →Managing 401k plan support

• You have a minimum of two years of accounting experience.
• Must possess “when no one’s looking” integrity and be an individual with a high level of ethics and character
• Self starter
• Must be extremely detail-oriented and able to multitask to meet deadlines
• Strong analytical, mathematical, and problem-solving skills required
• Must possess the aptitude and flexibility to understand the informational requirements of the business as it changes
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Proficiency with MS Office suite, especially Excel (more specifically pivot tables and vlookups) and PowerPoint
• Experience with NetSuite and Concur preferred
• Must have willingness to learn in order to grow with organization
• Must be a team player

If you identify as a female candidate, and feel you can do this role even if there are a few things perhaps you've not done, please apply anyway!  Goodway Group is 70% Female!  We realize that men tend to apply for jobs when they can meet around 60% of the requirements for the role, where women tend to only apply when they know they meet 100% of the requirements.  

Goodway Group is human-first, constantly working to become more inclusive and to make sure our employee population reflects our desire to constantly add to our diversity in all ways.  We want applications from everyone, regardless of race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, citizen status, age, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other legally protected status.