Staff Accountant

Position Summary:

The Staff Accountant is responsible for supporting the accounting and finance team by maintaining accurate financial records, preparing journal entries, reconciling accounts, and assisting with month-end and year-end closing processes. This role ensures compliance with company policies and generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) while contributing to timely and accurate financial reporting. This position requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate with various teams to ensure financial accuracy.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain accurate general ledgers for multiple entities, ensuring transactions are recorded in compliance with GAAP and company policies.
• Prepare and post journal entries for each entity, including accruals, allocations, and intercompany transactions.
• Perform account reconciliations and ensure accuracy of general ledger transactions.
• Assist in the migration of accounting systems, ensuring consistent setup and reporting structures across entities.
• Assist in the month-end and year-end closing processes.
• Uphold confidentiality, accuracy, and integrity in all financial and intercompany activities.
• Assist in identifying and implementing process improvements to increase efficiency in financial reporting.
• Support management with ad hoc reporting, analysis, and special projects as needed.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Fundamental knowledge of GAAP and financial reporting.
• Proficiency in accounting software (e.g., Sage Intacct a plus) and Microsoft Excel.
• Knowledge of corporate accounting processes, including general ledger maintenance, reconciliations, accruals, intercompany transactions, and fixed asset management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• High level of integrity and discretion when handling confidential financial information.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• 1-3+ years of experience in corporate or public accounting.

Competencies:

• Problem Solving - Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information skillfully.
• Adaptability - Adapts to changes in the work environment.
• Ethics - Works with integrity and ethically.
• Written Communication - Writes clearly and informatively.
• Organizational Support - Follows policies and procedures; Completes administrative tasks correctly and on time.
• Dependability - Follows instructions, responds to management direction; Takes ownership of actions.
• Time Management - Prioritizes and plans work activities; Uses time efficiently.
• Professionalism - Treats others with respect and consideration.
• Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Looks for ways to improve and promote quality.

Education, Formal Training, and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 1-3+ years of relevant accounting experience, preferably in a multi-entity corporate environment.
• Experience in real estate or insurance industry a plus.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Demands:

This role is mostly sedentary and requires the ability to sit for long periods each day. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate orally. The employee uses hands and fingers to type, handle, and reach. The ability to operate office machinery such as computer, phone, copier, printer, etc in the commission of daily duties. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations maybe made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Ardán offers some great perks:

• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Employer-paid disability and life insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• 401K with company match
• Paid time off and company-paid holidays
• Wellness resources

Note: This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties, responsibilities, or qualifications associated with the job.

Ardán is a family of companies that make real estate closings faster, simpler, and safer through technology-driven, innovative solutions, sound underwriting, and exceptional customer service. At Ardán, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of Insur-Tech. Our brands—Westcor, Grid151®, GridBase®, and X1 Analytics®—are dedicated to using technology to streamline and improve every step of the closing process. Westcor - Founded by title agents, Westcor is the number one independent title insurance underwriter in the nation. Westcor’s technology-driven products and services and sound underwriting help agents and their customers close real estate transactions faster and with peace of mind. Website: wltic.com Grid151 - Powered by GridBase® technology, Grid151® delivers tech-enabled fulfillment services to the title insurance industry. Website: grid151.com X1 Analytics - Using its proprietary data analytics engine, X1 Analytics® equips the title insurance industry with decisions and data which enable faster real estate closings with reduced cost and operational friction. Website: x1analytics.com GridBase - sing their proprietary tech stack to create the universal API for lender and title collaboration, GridBase® delivers data middleware and tools that transform lender and title operations with highly optimized automations and integrations. Website: gridbase.io