NOTE: This is a hybrid position requiring on-site presence three days per week at one of our local offices, located in Allentown, PA (Lehigh Valley), Louisville, KY, or Providence, RI. #LI-Hy #INDPPL
Staff Accountant:
Under general supervision, responsible for increasingly complex accounting activities including analyzing accounting transactions and issues, preparing journal entries, maintaining a complete and accurate general ledger, preparing, and analyzing financial reports, and testing and monitoring internal controls over financial reporting. Works with regular guidance in own area of knowledge.
Senior Accountant:
Under general direction, responsible for the more complex accounting activities including analyzing accounting transactions & issues, preparing journal entries, maintaining a complete and accurate general ledger, preparing & analyzing financial reports and enhancing internal controls over financial reporting. This is a senior-skill level normally without supervisory responsibility. However, may provide guidance and direction to other PPL employees in support of producing high quality, timely
and cost-effective accounting solutions. Works independently with minimal guidance using knowledge of business operations and accounting.
Responsibilities
Staff Accountant:
- Prepares increasingly complex accounting analyses and journal entries.
- Prepares and analyzes financial statements and other internal/external financial reports.
- Assists in the tracking & reporting of internal controls over financial reporting and recommends enhancements to such controls.
- Solves a range of increasingly complex accounting problems; analyzes possible solutions and makes recommendations.
- Related to all the above processes, expected to develop supporting work papers and documentation.
- Builds knowledge of the organization processes and customers and technical accounting.
Senior Accountant:
- Evaluates accounting policies and procedures to reflect changes in business conditions, processes, and accounting guidance.
- Prepares more complex accounting analyses and journal entries.
- Enhances internal controls over financial reporting.
- Uses best practices and knowledge of internal/external business issues to improve products or services. Solves more complex problems taking a new perspective on existing solutions.
- Provides functional advice or training to less-experienced accountant positions.
- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience. May direct the work of other staff members.
- Increases and applies knowledge of legal and regulatory issues and changes in accounting guidance.
- The company reserves the right to determine if this position will be assigned to work on-site, remotely, or a combination of both. Assigned work location may change. In the case of remote work, physical presence in the office/on-site may be required to engage in face-to-face interaction and coordination of work among direct reports and co-workers.
Qualifications
Staff Accountant:
Basic Qualifications -
- Bachelor's Degree in business discipline with at least 3 accounting courses OR Bachelor's Degree in Accounting with at least 1 year of accounting-related experience.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications; use of excel/word is required.
- Requires excellent written and oral communication skills
Preferred Qualifications -
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting with a minimum of 2 to 4 years of accounting-related experience in public accounting, SEC reporting, and a working knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
- CPA or CMA certification or MBA.
Senior Accountant:
Basic Qualifications -
- Bachelor's Degree in business discipline with at least 3 accounting courses and 5 years accounting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Accounting with 3-5 years of accounting-related experience.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications; use of excel/word is required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, MBA, or other advanced degree in business discipline.
- CPA or CMA certification.
- Experience in utility accounting, public accounting and SEC reporting, and a working knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to research technical accounting guidance.
- Requires excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Requires excellent interpersonal skills.
PPL Corporation
Two N Ninth St
Allentown
Pennsylvania United States
www.pplweb.com
