As a Senior Accountant, you will maintain financial records and ensure that financial transactions are properly recorded. You will maintain the accuracy of entries to ledger accounts and reconcile subsidiary ledger accounts to the general ledger. You will prepare complex balance sheets, profit and loss statements and other financial reports. You will analyze current costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations incurred to predict future revenues and expenses. You may guide lower-level accountants.
Responsibilities:
- Prepares journal entries, analyzes accounts, prepares statements, and assists accounting manager with monthly closing and accounting reports.
- Compiles and analyzes financial information to prepare entries for accounts, including general ledger and document business transactions.
- Maintains and coordinates implementation of accounting and control procedures.
- Resolves and corrects billing, inventory, costing, and other accounting discrepancies.
- Prepares documentation of processes and procedures and recommends improvements.
- Prepares general ledger account reconciliations.
- Researches and explains general ledger account variances to trend, budget, and prior year.
- Monitors and reviews accounting and related systems’ reports for accuracy and completeness.
- Prepares and reviews budget, revenue, expense, payroll entries, invoices, and other accounting documents.
- Analyzes revenue and expenditure trends and recommends appropriate budget levels, and ensures expenditure control.
- Explains accounting policies to staff.
- Recommends, develops, and maintains financial databases, software, and manual filing systems.
- Supervises input and handling of financial data and reports for company automated financial systems.
- Interacts with internal and external auditors in completing audits.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related field required
- CIMA/ACA/ACCA/ICAEW/CPA qualified preferred
- 3 years required, 5 years preferred, of accounting experience
- Accounting theory, and application of principles and practices
- Principles and practices of financial record keeping and reporting
- Analysis and interpretation of complex financial and statistical data
- Assembly and preparation of data for reports
- Strong office and computer skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Able to prepare, examine, and verify financial reports
- Able to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships
- Able to research and analyze varieties of information
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related field
- CIMA/ACA/ACCA/ICAEW/CPA qualification
- 3 years accounting experience (5 years preferred)
- Knowledge of accounting theory and application of principles and practices
- Principles and practices of financial record keeping and reporting
- Ability to analyze and interpret complex financial and statistical data
- Ability to prepare and assemble data for financial reports
- Strong office and computer skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to prepare, examine, and verify financial reports
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships
- Ability to research and analyze various information
WESCO International Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about WESCO International and has not been reviewed or approved by WESCO International.
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Retirement Support — Feedback suggests the 401(k) with company match is a relative strong point and is consistently part of the package. Retirement offerings are frequently cited as a solid element within the total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests PTO policies are favorable, including self‑managed or generous banks in some roles along with paid holidays. Paid parental leave and related time‑off options add to the perceived strength of leave benefits.
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Flexible Benefits — Feedback suggests employees have meaningful choice through medical plan options with HSA/FSA alongside ancillary programs like EAP, discounts, and supplemental coverages. The breadth of selectable add‑ons supports tailoring benefits to individual needs.
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What We Do
At Wesco, we believe life should run smoothly. As a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, we create a world that you can depend on. Harnessing 100 years of ingenuity and expertise, we increase profitability, improve productivity and mitigate risk for approximately 150,000 customers worldwide. With nearly 1.5 million products and locations in more than 50 countries, Wesco is your partner in progress. Our company’s greatest asset is our people. From our corporate and field offices to our distribution sites, Wesco employs over 20,000 professionals around the globe. We’re committed to fostering diversity and inclusion across our workforce by embracing the unique perspectives, authenticity, and individuality our team members contribute to the company. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Wesco is a publicly traded (NYSE: WCC) FORTUNE 500® company with 2022 net sales of $21.4 billion.
