Accounting Manager

Job Location: Stamford, CT

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (include but are not limited to):

• Manages the organization’s daily financial management and budgetary operations and processes.
• Initiates appropriate electronic wire transfers and debits.
• Produces and/or coordinates monthly, quarterly, year-end reports and closings.
• Produces and/or coordinates all internal and external financial reporting activities and schedules.
• Researches accounting issues and recommends accounting treatment for complex transactions such as mixed-finance transactions.
• Works with departments to identify funding needs and appropriately match those needs with sources of revenue, including operating management fees.
• Oversees all budget revisions, budget reporting, and analysis.
• Assists in the development, analysis, and review of organizational and operational systems, practices, and procedures to eliminate impediments to operations, to recognize duplication of functions, to identify under-utilization of resources, and to improve administrative processes and controls.
• Assumes other responsibilities as required to assure the effectiveness and efficiency of all budget and funding responsibilities.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Thorough knowledge of accounting/bookkeeping.
• Strong knowledge of the budgeting process.
• Ability to partner with various departments and work as a team member in preparing and providing information in response to requests.
• Ability to plan, organize, and control financial and accounting functions.
• Ability to be results-oriented and extremely well-organized to meet internal and external deadlines.
• Excellent ability to generate cooperation while performing audit and compliance responsibilities.
• Extremely detail-oriented.
• Strong knowledge of general office and administrative procedures.
• Excellent ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing.
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast-paced team environment.

Education/Experience Requirements:

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business management, or a related discipline is mandatory. In addition, a minimum of seven (7) years of accounting experience is required.