Job Description
Title: Staff Accountant
Location: Elmhurst, IL
Hire Type: Direct Hire (100% onsite)
Compensation: $70-85K yrly
Benefits:Full comprehensive benefit package
Overview:
Are you an accounting professional looking to expand your experience beyond the basics? We're seeking a Staff Accountant who is eager to take ownership of key accounting functions while building a long-term career with a collaborative and growing organization.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with 2-4 years of accounting experience who enjoys variety, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and wants to develop into a Senior Accountant.
Job Duties:
- Manage daily Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable activities
- Prepare and post journal entries, including accruals, amortizations, and reclassifications
- Assist with month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes
- Perform bank, credit card, and balance sheet account reconciliations
- Review shipment activity and resolve billing discrepancies
- Process vendor invoices, reconcile vendor statements, and resolve payment issues
- Generate customer invoices and apply incoming payments
- Support audits, special projects, and continuous process improvements
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting
- 2-4 years of accounting experience in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, or General Accounting
- Manufacturing or supply chain experience is a plus
- Strong understanding of GAAP
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (Pivot Tables, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, formulas)
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Elmhurst, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $70,000–$85,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Accountingunmatched
- Accounting Closeunmatched
- Accounts Payableunmatched
- Accounts Receivableunmatched
- Balance Sheetunmatched
- Billingunmatched
- Credit Cardsunmatched
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)unmatched
- Journal Entriesunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Microsoft Excelunmatched
- Pivot Tablesunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Reconciliationunmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Vlookupsunmatched
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