Corporate Accountant

Corporate Accountant
A large, publicly traded organization headquartered in Charlotte is adding a Corporate Accountant to its corporate accounting team.
This is an excellent opportunity for an early-career accounting professional who has built a strong foundation and is ready to gain broader exposure within a complex corporate environment. As an addition to the team, this position will work across a variety of corporate and shared-services accounting activities while developing a deeper understanding of the complete accounting and financial reporting cycle.
The organization is looking for someone with strong accounting fundamentals, intellectual curiosity, and the desire to continue developing their career within a team that can offer meaningful long-term growth.
What You'll Do

• Support the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes across assigned corporate accounting areas
• Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, and supporting schedules
• Maintain general ledger accounts and investigate unusual activity, discrepancies, and account variances
• Gain exposure across multiple areas of corporate accounting rather than being limited to one narrow function
• Support accounting activities involving areas such as accruals, prepaids, allocations, intercompany activity, and other balance sheet accounts
• Analyze account activity and help identify the underlying drivers behind changes and variances
• Assist with monthly financial and management reporting
• Support internal control and financial reporting requirements within a public-company environment
• Assist with external audit requests and supporting documentation
• Work with accounting and finance partners across the organization to research and resolve accounting issues
• Participate in process improvements designed to increase efficiency, accuracy, and consistency
• Take on additional accounting responsibilities as your knowledge and experience grow

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline
• Approximately 1 3 years of accounting, audit, or financial reporting experience
• Understanding of fundamental accounting principles and U.S. GAAP
• Exposure to month-end close, general ledger accounting, journal entries, and/or account reconciliations
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable working with financial data and researching discrepancies
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to producing accurate work

Highly Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting
• Public accounting experience
• Experience within a large corporate or publicly traded environment
• CPA, CPA candidate, or interest in pursuing CPA certification
• Experience with ERP, consolidation, or account reconciliation systems
• Intermediate Excel skills, including PivotTables, lookups, and formulas