Senior Accountant
STERIS Des Plaines
Position Summary
This Senior Accountant prepares financial reports, financial graphs and performs financial analysis of operating results. Responsibilities also include analyzing trends, expenses, financial commitments, and obligations incurred to predict future expenses.This position is responsible for creating organization's accounting and financial report packages, and offers suggestions about resource utilization, expenses savings, and assumptions underlying accounting reserves and accruals. This individual must be familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, & procedures and relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
The Senior Accountant performs a variety of complicated tasks and a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
Des Plaines, IL based hybrid position.
Responsibilities- Assist with the monthly closing process in a timely manner.
- Prepare monthly and yearly journal entries for accounting close. Enters, reviews and verifies the accuracy of journal entries and accounting classifications assigned to various records.
- Manage the SAP Concur expense submission process by approving expense reports, carrying out Concur system administrator responsibilities, and taking steps to ensure that our expense policy is being followed appropriately.
- Prepare specific account analyses and reconciliations on a monthly basis.
- Implement all customer master data changes on a daily basis, monitoring the workflow of approved customer master data changes and tracking the completion of updates.
- Facilitate the reporting of expense transactions in accordance with the Physician Payments Sunshine Act by tracking and compiling expense data and submitting to federal database.
- Coordinate and maintain the integrity of account reconciliations, key financial schedules, and other financial reporting for multiple legal entities.
- Assist with annual budget process.
- Assist with external and internal financial auditors compiling information to complete both financial and Sarbanes Oxley audits.
- Prepare Ad Hoc reports and participate in ad hoc analysis and projects. Conduct special studies and develop or recommend accounting methods and procedures.
- Work closely with the accounting staff and/or other relevant personnel.
- Special projects to support the dynamic nature of the business, such as assistance with systems implementation, standardization of new processes, and other projects as assigned.
- Complete other responsibilities as assigned
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or Finance
- Minimum of 4 years of accounting experience required
- CPA preferred
- Public accounting experience preferred
- SAP Concur experience is a plus
- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail
- Advanced skills in Excel, PowerPoint and accounting software
- Excellent interpersonal, communications, planning and organizational skills
- Desire to build out effective processes and procedures
- Strong degree of initiative and diligence
- Team Player
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=== Company description
STERIS is a leading provider of infection prevention and procedural products and services, focused primarily on the critical markets of healthcare, pharmaceutical and research and medical devices. Our mission is to help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.We have 12,000 employees worldwide, with over 3,000 in Customer-facing sales and service roles. Founded as Innovative Medical Technologies in Ohio in 1985, the company was renamed STERIS in 1987. Many of the businesses that have been acquired and integrated into STERIS have much longer operating histories, notably the American Sterilizer Company founded in 1894.
The STERIS Vision is inspired by our Customers' efforts to create a healthier and safer world, and guided by our legacy of leadership and innovation; we strive to be a Great Company. To STERIS, this means we will make a difference by providing world-class product and service solutions for our Customers, safe and rewarding work for our People, and superior returns for our Shareholders.
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