Assistant Controller / Accounting Manager

Our client, a premier Financial Services Firm in Riverhead are seeking an Assistant Controller & Accounting Manager to oversee their growing Finance Team.

The ideal candidate would have 5 – 7 years for the Manager job, and 6 – 8 years for the Asst. Controller job.

Must have supervisory experience overseeing 3+ accounting staff within banking, financial services, credit union, insurance, or Public Accounting with clients in the above industries.

If you are interested in this position, please send your resume in Word format with current salary to VS@NielsenStaffing.com.

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Commercial Property Management Administrator

Our client, a commercial Real Estate company in NYC, is seeking an Administrative professional for their midtown office.  Located close to Penn station, this position will report directly to the Director of Property Management and have exposure to learn the commercial side of the Real Estate business.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain office filing system in the corporate office.  Will occasionally go on-site to visit commercial properties to build relationships with tenants.
• Respond to tenant and contractor letter, emails, phone calls and coordinate meetings with the DPM to resolve issues.
• Manage the DPM’s calendar, and set up meetings as necessary.
• Manage several access systems for security access to properties; do all setting up and programming of cards.
• Oversee and organize lobby directories and signage.
• Prepare budget worksheets through Excel.
• Follow up and handle all inquiries regarding violations.
• Accounts Payable for phone and utility bills, review all charges and reconcile payment schedules through formatted documents.  Order new cell phones for employees when necessary.
• Liaise with Workers Comp, Vendors & Superintendents, transferring of all tenant accounts.
• Handle all insurance files for properties and employees. Order all uniforms for new employees.
• File, organize mail, handle purchase orders, and back up front-desk when needed.

Requirements:

• 5 years experience in commercial real estate in
  an administrative capacity.
• Experience with vendor and tenant relations.
• Proficient in Excel.

Salary – 40 – 60K

If you are interested in this position, please send your resume in Word format, with current salary to VS@NielsenStaffing.com

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Our client, a growing Public Accounting office in NYC is seeking a Tax Senior Manager, for their Financial Service division.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of financial services tax engagements, including: ability to deal with high level technical and compliance issues, tax policies and procedures, recent Federal & State developments, and current tax accounting standards.
• Provide financial services expertise involving tax research and application of specialized industry knowledge and accounting principles.
• Supervise junior tax professionals on financial
  services engagements, which include broker dealers, hedge funds, private equity investment funds and investment advisors.
• Interact with high level client personnel, firm audit and tax directors and partners.
• Identify and resolve tax issues using Checkpoint and BNA.
• Responsible for handling taxing authority audits of client tax returns and related records.
• Audit and prepare tax returns using ePace and GoSystem.

Required Experience:

• 7 years recent public accounting/audit or tax experience.
• 7 years experience working on engagements conducting tax related research and dealing with tax compliance issues.
• 5 years financial service industry client experience, including fund-of-fund, hedge fund, investment, and broker dealer.
• 5 years experience working with ProSystem of GoSystem tax preparation software and on-line tax research tools to resolve tax planning issues relating to the preparation of tax returns
• 3 years supervisory experience a plus.
• CPA required; MS in Taxation a plus.

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If you are interested in this position, please send your resume in Word format with current salary to VS@NielsenStaffing.com .

Please attach a summary of how your experience and background would be excellent for this position.

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Treasury Analyst

Our client, a premier Private Equity Firm in NYC, seeks a Treasury Analyst to work with a growing team.

Works closely with the Controller and the Chief Financial Officer and supports the Finance & Accounting, Investor Relations, Asset Management and Investment teams with all treasury activities.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of the investor funds’ cash flow and the wiring and receiving of funds, both domestic and foreign, resulting from capital calls and distributions for approximately 50 investment partnerships.
• Processes all underlying funds’ capital calls by obtaining the necessary approvals and proper funding.
• Maintains a database tracking all underlying funds’ capital calls and distributions.
• Provides the quarterly underlying funds’ capital calls and distributions tables for the investor letters.
• Provides bi-weekly Capital Call Summary and Distribution Summary reports for the Monday Morning Meetings.
• Monitors and analyzes daily cash and loan activities and foreign exchange transactions through evaluation and reconcilement of bank balances.
• Prioritizes disbursement and collection activity to determine the appropriate borrowing/repayment level required to meet daily liquidity needs while minimizing idle balances.
• Maintains an updated file (spreadsheet and binder) on Lines of Credit.
• Responsible for funding accounts payables.
• Processes all foreign wire transfers for accounts payables.
• Responsible for making regular check deposits.
• Calculates and reconciles monthly interest and fees on loans.
• Maintains the ACH databases and processes ACH payments from investors for capital calls.
• Maintains company’s banking relationships and assists in the implementation of new banking services and products along with setting up new accounts.
• Completes annual REIT questionnaires and audit confirmations for all underlying funds.
• Completes annual NYS E-File Signature Authorizations for Form IT-204-LL.

Requirements:

• 2 – 5 years experience in a Treasury / Risk / Cash Management capacity for the Senior position.
• 4 Year Degree in Accounting / Finance.
• Experience working in a Financial Service company a plus.
• Excellent communication skills.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please email your resume in Word format with current salary to vs@nielsenstaffing.com

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Large global firm looking for an experienced Payroll Specialist to join their team.  The payroll specialist will be responsible for auditing and reconsiling employee pay records; ensuring timely and accurate input of employee status and pay changes from employee and other departments.  The Payroll specialist will ensure that FLSA status is correctly captured, interpret pay policies as well as ensure appropriate amounts/deductions are calculated and applied to the various accounts correctly and ensure company compliance with federal and state payroll requirements.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 2 years of payroll experience (Peoplesoft a plus but not required).

Send resume along with salary history to:  bb@nielsenstaffing.com

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Accounts Payable Supervisor – Hauppauge

Our client, a Home Goods company in Hauppauge, NY is seeking an experienced A/P Supervisor to work with a growing team.

Responsibilities

• Manages A/P, as well as hiring and training for new A/P employees.
• Customer Vendor Relations, and the AP disbursement group which handles all check disbursements, T&E reporting, 1099 and tax related matters for ERP systems.
• Manages accounting functions including maintenance of general ledger, accounts payable, and project accounting; ensures accuracy and timeliness.
• Reconciles and monitors all company credit card accounts.
• Develops, implements and maintains systems, procedures and policies, including accounts payable functions to ensure adherence to company guidelines.
• Manages monthly closing of financial records and posting of month end information; ensures accuracy of financial statements.
• Enters status change information into project accounting software to ensure employee information is accurate and up to date.
• Provides accounting assistance to project managers and operations staff; responds to financial questions/concerns to meet business needs.
• Acts as a liaison between the company, government and external accountants to meet information needs and to ensure that proper information is maintained for historical purposes.
• Prepares and recommends operating and personnel budgets for approval. Monitors spending for adherence to budget, recommends variances as necessary.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 3 to 6 years A/P experience.
• One or more years of leadership & supervisory experience included
• Strong personal computer and business solutions software skills
• Strong interpersonal skills for interacting accountants, clients, and upper management
• Good communication skills for communicating with support personnel and management
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Good presentation skills for educating internal clients on accounting principles
• Good planning and organizational skills to balance and prioritize work

Salary – $65,000

If you are interested in this position, please email your resume in Word format to VS@NielsenStaffing.com

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A/R Chargebacks Coordinator

Our client, a home goods Company in Midtown Manhattan is seeking a bright and professional A/R / Chargebacks Coordinator to work with their growing team!

Responsibilities:

• Reports to the Controller, working alongside the A/R and Collections Managers.
• Managing, and resolving or processing chargeback items from the credit card processor related to disputed department store transactions.
• Working directly with credit card processing companies, banks and department stores throughout the
  process. Investigating rejected transactions or chargebacks from department stores, analyze data, identify trends, documentation of each case and present recommendations based on data analysis results.

  Process and resolved wholesalers chargebacks for department stores.

• Worked closely with contracting and government areas to validate correct submission by department store.
• Used Excel and Financial databases and internal contract and prices.
• Processed and approved credits and cash applications.
• Make collection calls to support the Collections Manager as needed.
• Manage write offs and transactions with appropriate approvals and wire transfers as needed.
• Perform reinstatement of items as requested by users, or correct erroneous transactions.
• Work with Financial Accounting to perform monthly cash/bank reconciliations.
• Dispute unjustified deductions and enter dispute tickets into system

Requirements:

• 2-4 years minimum related experience with accounts receivable knowledge preferred. Chargeback experience is required. Must be very customer service oriented.
• Experience dealing directly with large department stores is required.
• A strong understanding of general accounting, posting G/L entries and attention to detail required.
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal communication skills.
• The ability to work in a complex and changing environment with minimal supervision, make independent decisions and work within a team environment.
• Basic computer skills including Windows-based programs with solid navigational skills.
• Knowledge of MS Office Suite preferred.

Salary – $60,000

If you are interested in this position, please email your resume in Word format with current salary to VS@NielsenStaffing.com

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Business Analyst

Our client, a top Technology Company in Suffolk County, NY is seeking a Business Analyst. The Business Analyst is responsible for business and customer financial analyses that support the development of pricing strategies, sales price execution policies and overall optimization of price management. The Analyst provides business leaders with ongoing revenue and cost analytics and timely accurate information in order to support overall market, product and customer objectives. The role also investigates and makes decisions for day-to-day and strategic business analytics involving Divisions, Strategic Accounts, and/or senior management.

This will be an amazing opportunity for someone with 2 years experience in Finance, Engineering, Revenue Analysis, or Cost Accounting.

Requirements:

• BA in Finance, Economics or Engineering; with MBA, Top
  schools strongly preferred.
• Minimum 2 to 4 yrs experience in a large company.
• Strong communication, quantitative & analytical skills.
• Should have Financial Software knowledge such as Oracle,
  SAP, PeopleSoft, Hyperion Essbase.

If you are interested in this position, please email your resume in Word format with current salary to VS@NielsenStaffing.com

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Staff Accountant – Melville

Our client, a Financial Services Firm in Melville, NY seeks an experienced Staff Accountant to join its growing staff. Ideal candidate will have 3 years staff accounting experience in a large company environment. The ideal candidate will have a public and private accounting mix, CPA or CPA track preferred.

Responsibilities:

Prepare and record month-end closing journal entries, including reconciliation & reporting of intercompany activity

Assist in the preparation of consolidated financial statements

Provide financial and operational support to the various subsidiaries

Travel to subsidiaries to conduct operational reviews and/or inventory analysis

Conduct financial analysis and prepare supporting schedules for internal and external reporting

Work directly with the other members of the Corporate Finance Department to perform various corporate level analyses and/or projects

Perform/assist with other duties and special projects

Requirements:

Must have a Bachelors degree in Accounting

Minimum of three years of experience in financial accounting

Public and private accounting mix, CPA or CPA track preferred.

Experience with Financial Systems such as SAP, Oracle or GreatPlains a plus.

Hands on experience and knowledge of various accounting and finance aspects, such as intercompany transactions, account reconciliations, and preparation of cash flow statements are a must.

Knowledge in areas such as cost accounting, financial consolidation of multiple subsidiaries, and foreign exchange accounting a definite plus

Highly responsive to customer requirements, with a high attention for detail and accuracy

Must be self-motivated and able to work independently and as part of a team

Must be flexible and able to multi-task in a time-sensitive environment

If you are interested in this position, please email your resume in Word format to VS@NielsenStaffing.com.

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Financial Planning Manager

Our client, a premier Financial Services firm in Great Neck, NY is seeking a senior level Financial Planning Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of respective business financial statements and analytical techniques with subsidiaries.
• Works with the business to develop forecasts, projects, budgets, and treasury operations.
• Creates complex forecasting and financial models.
• Conducts complex analyses within respective subsidiary business.
• Explains variances and identifies implications on business projects.
• Implement financial modeling for Shared Services, Finance, and Treasury.
• Measures and evaluates the effectiveness of protocols, programs or deliverables; compares measurement results to standards and takes.
• Highly involved with writing of treasury & project policies and procedures improving methods of project management.
• Manages subsidiary compliance, associated incentives, & payments.
• Subsidiary deal modeling, market data analysis, & support of stage gate process for new launch innovation.

Requirements:

• BA in Accounting or Finance; with MBA.
• Minimum 7 to 10 yrs experience in project management planning, finance & treasury.
• Supervisory Experience.
• Financial Service industry experience required.
• Strong communication & analytical skills
• Must have Financial Software knowledge such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, Hyperion Essbase

If you are interested in this position, please email your resume in Word format with current salary to VS@NielsenStaffing.com

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