Job Description

The responsibilities of a senior accountant include but not limited to: - Ensures the integrity of accounting information by recording, verifying, consolidating, and entering transactions. - Prepares and records asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information. - Maintains and balances subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, and reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies. - Maintains general ledger by transferring subsidiary accounts, preparing a trial balance, and reconciling entries. - Summarizes financial status by collecting information and preparing balance sheet, profit and loss, and other statements. - Produces payroll by initiating computer processing; printing checks, verifying finished product. - Completes external audit by analyzing and scheduling general ledger accounts and providing information for auditors. - Avoids legal challenges by complying with legal requirements. - Secures financial information by completing database backups. - Protects organization’s value by keeping information confidential.