Staff Accountant II at Carriage Services in Houston, TX

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the Funeral Home Location financial review and analysis during monthly close.
• Ensure accurate and timely completion of assigned tasks.
• Responsible for the Funeral Home Location financial review and analysis during monthly close.
• Work with Corporate and Field Personnel to obtain information and provide explanations for financial analysis.
• Compile journal entries as needed during review with adequate support.
• Work directly with field location processors and Managing Partners to resolve any issues or help location with questions during month-end and through-out the month.
• Review field locations' monthly inventory reconciliations of physical count to ledger, work with locations to resolve issues and improve process.
• Complete assigned monthly balance sheet account reconciliations.
• Posting of approved journals to general ledger.
• Identify, propose, and implement process improvements / procedure enhancements to gain efficiencies, strengthen controls and improve quality of information provided by the department.
• Ensure internal controls are being followed for all assigned tasks; and
• Assist in special projects, testing system upgrades or enhancements to accounting process.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting required.
• 3+ years of experience in a general ledger capacity.
• Strong Excel skills required and experience with an automated ledger application such as Microsoft Dynamics; and
• Experience with Oracle / Hyperion Essbase and/or OneStream is a plus.

Skills

Required

• Strong Excel skills

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Compensation: $78k+