This role will play a critical part in maintaining accurate financial records, supporting audits, and ensuring compliance with applicable policies and standards. The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented accounting professional with strong technical skills, a proactive mindset, and a willingness to leverage technology to improve processes and efficiency.
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Prepare and record asset, liability, revenue, and expense entries by compiling and analyzing account information, with a strong emphasis on general ledger accuracy and integrity
- Prepare, balance, and maintain general ledger activity and produce monthly financial statements
- Perform detailed reconciliations across multiple accounts, including operating and custodial bank accounts, and investigate discrepancies as needed
- Research and prepare schedules related to revenue distributions, ad valorem reports, and other funding sources
- Prepare and reconcile monthly deposit activity, ensuring proper classification and documentation
- Maintain and effectively utilize the organization’s accounting system (currently MIP or similar), including identifying opportunities to improve system usage
- Assist with investment and/or retirement-related accounting, including preparation of related schedules and reporting
- Prepare and file required federal and state tax and withholding forms
- Support the annual audit process, including preparation of schedules and timely response to auditor requests
- Review daily financial activity, classify transactions appropriately, and ensure accurate and timely posting
- Reconcile account balances, proactively identify discrepancies, and ensure the overall reliability of financial data
- Maintain organized, audit-ready accounting records and supporting documentation
- Support month-end close activities, including journal entries, reconciliations, and financial reporting
- Identify opportunities to enhance accounting processes, strengthen internal controls, and leverage technology and software tools for efficiency
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Three to five years of experience in accounting, with a strong focus on general ledger and reconciliations
- Strong knowledge of General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and financial reporting principles
- Experience with month-end close processes and account reconciliation
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and accounting systems
- Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work independently while communicating effectively with stakeholders
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with MIP (Momentive/Abila) or similar accounting software
- Experience with retirement, pension, or investment accounting
Emergent Method and associated entities are equal opportunity employers. We do not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally recognized basis or any protected class under federal, state, or local law.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Three to five years of experience in accounting with a strong focus on general ledger and reconciliations
- Strong knowledge of General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and financial reporting principles
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and accounting systems
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
What We Do
Emergent Method is a Louisiana-based management consulting firm focused on helping companies and organizations innovate, grow, improve their performance, and achieve their missions. We do this by bringing people and ideas together to understand opportunities, let ideas emerge and create multi-faceted solutions with results greater than the sum of their parts. We come from backgrounds of solving complex problems and implementing change, working with clients to help navigate shifting landscapes and seize opportunities – including those they had not seen before. From strategic planning and organizational design, to project management and strategic communications, we are dedicated to helping our clients adapt, innovate and grow – pushing systems, agencies, and industries to new heights, while developing strategic, systemic solutions and processes to support those goals. We opened our doors in 2012, and in 2017, we were honored as Company of the Year by the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report and Junior Achievement, a recognizable benchmark of growth – and we seek the same measures of continuous improvement for the clients we serve. By definition, we are a team dedicated to our clients as they transform, come into being, or become prominent – as they emerge – by supporting organizational growth through systematic planning and action.
