Senior Accountant

Job ID: W#0675 - Senior Accountant

• Location: Hybrid in Riverwoods, IL or Philadelphia, PA (2 days per week onsite)
• 6 Month Renewable Contract with a possible Contract to Hire

Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services for the health, tax & accounting, governance, risk & compliance, and legal & regulatory sectors. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands. The Company serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries, and employs approximately 19,000 people worldwide. Every day, our customers make critical decisions to help save lives, improve the way they do business, and build better judicial and regulatory systems. We help them get it right!

The Senior Accountant will assist the Accounting team by ensuring all journal entries and account reconciliations are completed timely and accurately to ensure the integrity of financial data. This position is critical to the overall control environment for the divisions supported by Wolters Kluwer Financial Shared Services (FSS). FSS focuses on building accounting expertise in a tower structure: Record to Report, Procure to Pay and Order to Cash and provides support to the businesses of Wolters Kluwer in a standardized, harmonized, and high quality manner. If successful, the candidate will be able to expand his/her expertise within a global organization. Additional requirements include, but are not limited to:

• Good communication and interpersonal skills to establish strong relationships with cross-functional teams
• An ability to quickly adapt to changes in business requirements
• A desire to learn new skills and areas of responsibility

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Meet assigned deadlines and deliver on goals and objectives
• Actively participate in the month end close and reporting process in accordance with the Corporate Reporting calendar
• Record and report transactions in a timely, complete and accurate manner
• Identify and resolve issues quickly and independently, if possible, or bring them to management s attention with proposed solutions
• Perform assigned reconciliations of general ledger/AP/AR/Bank accounts on a monthly/quarterly/semi-annual basis. This includes identifying reconciling items along with the research and clearing of such items in a timely manner based on appropriate supporting documentation
• Maintain and update desk-top procedures for any changes in processes, tools and procedures
• Keep updated checklists and ensure completion of tasks per such checklists
• Prepare supporting schedules and analyses as required by management
• Timely and effectively communicate with accounting, finance and operations teams by providing thorough and thoughtful responses to inquiries and questions
• Develop strong relationships with the business by offering solutions to resolve issues in an effective and cost efficient manner
• Share knowledge within the team and provide support to other team members
• Complete ad hoc requests in a timely manner with the highest quality
• Recommend process improvements as deemed reasonable

Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in accounting required
• 7- 9 years of previous accounting/audit experience in public or private accounting
• CA or CPA certification preferred
• Experience with major ERPs (SAP, Great Plains, NetSuite) strongly preferred
• Experience with Blackline strongly preferred
• Strong reporting and data querying capabilities
• Thorough knowledge of MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
• Strong analytical skills
• Detail oriented approach to work; ability to maintain confidentiality; strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while also functioning as an integral part of a team.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Willingness to take initiative and to follow through on assignments
• Ability to work flexible hours (from the office and from home) to well coordinate with the rest of the team during Month-End Close/Reporting