Senior Accountant

Redwood Logistics
Chicago, IL
Category Accounting
Job Description
Role Overview

As a Senior Accountant at Redwood Logistics, you will be responsible for representing the interests of Redwood Logistics and protect the organization’s value by keeping information confidential. You will share the responsibility for accounting activities and be dedicated to ensuring generally accepted accounting principles and procedures along with company policy.

What You Will Do

Prepare revenue and expense accruals, vendor accruals, amortization of prepaid expenses, fixed assets depreciation and amortization of goodwill, processing rebates, cash reconciliations, reconciling intercompany, term debt interest and principle accounting, elimination journal entries and other monthly accounting tasks in compliance with GAAP and company policies.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You will assist and support all Financial Planning and Analysis team’s initiatives in capturing business activity in order to report and analyses financial performance of all business units against budgets and forecasts.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Finance/Accounting
  • CPA preferred
  • 4-5 years of experience as a Staff Accountant and/or Auditor
  • Knowledge of financial reporting standards US GAPP, financial reporting controls and process improvement
  • Experience using Great Planes Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, MS Excel & MS Access
  • Ability to effectively manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with minimal supervision
  • Knowledge and ability to use applicable information technology systems to optimize accounting and reporting processes

Benefits

  • Access to experts and resources for your Learning & Development journey
  • Opportunity for internal mobility
  • Employee referral bonus program
  • Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
  • Annual fundraising and volunteer events to give back to communities
  • Paid time off, floating holidays, time off to volunteer and rollover
  • Paid parental leave
  • Medical, dental, vision and 401k plans (with match)
  • Flexible spending account, mass transit and dependent care plans available
  • Health savings account, with a annual company contribution for plan participants
  • Short-term and long-term disability; life insurance policies subsidized by company
  • Additional benefits including pet insurance, accident care, access to legal advice and more
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