A growing, multi-location heavy equipment organization is seeking a Staff Accountant to join its accounting team. This is a great opportunity for an accounting professional who wants broad exposure to general ledger accounting, financial reporting, reconciliations, and close activities while working closely with an experienced Controller.
The Staff Accountant will support accounting across multiple entities and locations, with exposure to equipment sales, rental, parts, and service operations. The role offers the opportunity to build technical accounting skills while contributing to process improvements and supporting financial decision-making across the business.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and reconcile general ledger accounts across multiple entities and locations
- Prepare journal entries, accruals, corrections, and recurring entries
- Support monthly, quarterly, and year-end close processes
- Assist with financial statement preparation and management reporting
- Perform bank, credit card, balance sheet, and other account reconciliations
- Investigate discrepancies and assist with inventory and cost-of-sales accounting
- Support AP, AR, audit preparation, and tax compliance activities
- Maintain fixed asset records and depreciation schedules
- Partner with branch and operational teams to resolve accounting questions
- Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes, accuracy, and automation
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required; equivalent relevant experience may be considered
- 3+ years of progressive accounting experience
- Strong understanding of GAAP and general ledger accounting
- Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables and lookup functions
- Multi-entity or multi-location accounting experience preferred
- Heavy equipment, construction equipment, trucking, automotive, or dealership accounting experience strongly preferred
- Experience with ERP or dealership management systems is a plus
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
Why Join?
- Broad accounting exposure across a complex, multi-location business
- Opportunity to work directly with the Controller and expand technical accounting skills
- Exposure to multiple business lines, including equipment sales, rental, parts, and service
- Opportunity to contribute to process improvements and grow within the accounting function
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
- 3+ years of progressive accounting experience
- Strong understanding of GAAP and general ledger accounting
- Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables and lookup functions
- Multi-entity or multi-location accounting experience
- Heavy equipment, construction equipment, trucking, automotive, or dealership accounting experience
- Experience with ERP or dealership management systems
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills
What We Do
GHJ is an accounting and advisory firm that specializes in nonprofit, food and beverage, entertainment and media and health and wellness companies. Previous recipient of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Employee Champion For Life Work Harmony Award and named a “Best Places to Work” by the Los Angeles Business Journal eight times since 2008, GHJ is passionate about helping clients and its people #BeMore by focusing on building thriving businesses and creating a better future. GHJ works as a business advocate for its clients — providing personalized service and building long-term relationships to help position our clients for growth. Through its affiliation with HLB International, a global network of independent professional accounting firms and business advisers, GHJ is able to partner with other top firms across major cities throughout the U.S. and the world. GHJ’s audit, tax and advisory teams leverage the HLB network to better serve its clients and give clients access to member firms in over 158 countries across the globe and over 775 offices worldwide. Also ranked as a top-20 largest accounting firm on the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Book of Lists, GHJ has 15 partners and more than 160 staff members that serve over 3,000 clients. GHJ is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the AICPA Governmental Audit Quality Center (GAQC), the California Society of CPAs and the California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofit).
