Senior Financial Accountant
Avecia: Milford, MA, Massachusetts, US
About this opportunity :
The Senior Financial Accountant is responsible for a wide range of financial activities, including general accounting, month-end close, account reconciliations, and financial reporting. This role supports fixed asset accounting, budgeting, forecasting, external and internal audit as well as general external reporting. In addition, the role supports ad hoc finance and corporate initiatives, including system implementations and process improvements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage general accounting functions, including preparing journal entries, month-end close, and account reconciliations.
- Support financial reporting and assist with the semi-annual budget process.
- Monitor capital spend, track ongoing projects, and oversee project capitalization, including variance analysis (actual vs. budget) and participate in Capital Committee meetings.
- Provide backup support for the Finance Manager, including short-term coverage and training others on financial procedures.
- Contribute to system implementations and process improvement initiatives (e.g., ADP timesheets, Concur) to achieve project milestones and deliverables.
- Support with internal and external audit, insurance, census or other external reporting as required.
- Familiarity with the payroll accounting tasks.
- Support ad hoc finance and corporate projects as required.
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline
- 5-7+ years of accounting experience in a mid to large sized company.
- Knowledge and use of a major accounting package (SAP/Oracle/JD Edwards). Prior use of SAP HANA accounting software would be an advantage.
- Ability to work with a wide variety of people on a wide range of projects.
- Thorough attention to detail.
The annualized salary range for this position is $90,000.00 - $110,000.00.