Senior Accountant, Financial Reporting & Analysis - Military veterans preferred

2025-05-10
Catholic Relief Services
Other

/yr

  employee   contract


Baltimore
Maryland
21201
United States


Position title: Senior Accountant, Financial Reporting & Analysis

Location: Remote, United States | (Remote)


Responsibilities:

  • Perform account analysis and ad hoc financial reporting as requested by the Global Controller department, and other internal and external parties.
  • Perform reconciliation of assigned balance sheet and related revenue and expenditure accounts, including trade receivables, employee receivables, pension liabilities and other assigned accounts. Prepare and record related journal entries. Perform financial analysis to review variances in accounts and follow up to investigate variances.
  • Complete financial surveys accurately and timely, including reports for charity watchdog organizations, US census reporting, etc.
  • Responsible for reviewing and ensuring that the project subledger reconciles to the general ledger at month end. Responsible for coordinating meetings with the responsible parties to ensure any subledger variances are corrected in a timely manner.
  • Collaborate with the Systems Team and act as a liaison between the finance department and other users to provide support and clarification of overall processes.
  • Assist colleagues with responding to financial information requests.
  • Assist internal and external auditors with financial information requests and supporting documentation.
  • Analyze monthly and quarterly fluctuations in assigned accounts for internal reporting and propose necessary adjusting entries.
  • Perform other related tasks and ad hoc projects, as assigned by his/her supervisor.
  • Responsible for financial review of emergency and non-emergency restricted fund balances. Procedures include producing monthly reports and distributing to country programs, coordinating monthly restricted fund meetings with fund managers to review variances and following up/analyzing variances.
  • Perform a configuration review for new projects to be added to the financial ERP system.


Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
  • Minimum of 2-5 years accounting experience
  • Certified Public Accountant or current candidate

Required Languages - Fluency in written and spoken English.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Thorough understanding of accounting standards

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Deadline compliance and management of multiple priorities

• Excellent computer and analytical skills

• Strong financial systems experience, including ERP

• Analytical experience with cube databases

• Strong knowledge of internal controls













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