Senior Accountant

Title: Senior Accountant 

Reports to: Controller 

Level:  4 - 7

Work Policy:  Four days in the office and one day work from home 

Position Overview:

Join AMA Group as a Senior Accountant, a key role in our growing Accounting Department. Over the past decade, we’ve built a reputation for excellence, shaping the foundation of our infrastructure. This is your chance to establish yourself as a subject matter expert while contributing to our organization's financial success. Reporting directly to the Controller, you will collaborate and cross-functional teams to ensure accurate financial management.

The successful candidate has demonstrated proficiency in the following areas:

• Develop relationships and communicate across all company functions
• Properly prioritize and manage multiple projects with competing deadlines
• See challenges as opportunities to make improvements and develop a team
• Be detail-oriented and deadline/results/accuracy driven
• Have a controls and risk-based mind set while executing daily, monthly, quarterly tasks

Role Responsibilities:

We are seeking a skilled Senior Accountant to join and assist our current Accounting Department. Your daily responsibilities will be to: 

• Policies & controls - Ensure that efficient policies and procedures and the proper internal controls are in place
• Financial Reporting - Responsible for month-end close process and coordinate the closing of the division’s accounting books. Report financial results in conformity with GAAP together with financial and accounting policies established by Corporate Accounting
• Audit - Partner with external auditors to support annual audit procedures. Ensure timely communication and provide accurate documentation, including “Prepared by Client” deliverables.
• Transaction processing - Manage/Supervise AR, AP, Job Costing, General Ledger, Contracts Management and Purchasing
• Monthly performance review - Maintain KPI dashboards and steer monthly analytical process to assess operational and financial performance, including labor efficiency and productivity, margin scalability, and cash conversion. Review expense projections and provide recommendations regarding cost reduction as well as opportunities to redeploy resources across projects and departments. Assess risks and opportunities spanning revenue growth, margin expansion and cash conversion.
• Financial Planning & Analysis - Support annual planning cycle, including preparation and consolidation of budget requests across businesses, analytics, management review and Board presentations.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting 

Experience 

• 2+ years’ experience progressive accounting experience with public accounting experience
• Experience with Deltek Vision is Required 
• Certified Public Accountant or CPA Candidate required
• Great analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong time management, organizational skills and adaptable and capable of working in fast-paced environments.
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple priorities and meet deadlines; ability to adapt to change. Responsive and action-oriented
• Attention to detail
• Strong analytical and mathematical ability.
• Problem solver with excellent follow-up and customer service skills.
• Team player with excellent communication skills including the ability to develop relationships.
• Proficiency in MS Office, especially Excel. OneStream a plus.
• Positive attitude, good judgment and strong sense of responsibility and ownership.
• Impeccable work ethics, slow to judge, objective and candid with desire to drive for transparency. Accountable and willing to make personal commitments to drive the transformation of the Finance function. Follow through on commitments, drive for closure and deliver sustainable results.

Who We Are? 

AMA Group is considered an industry leader in the design of MEP/FP building systems for media, broadcast, and production facilities, including sound stage campuses, having a portfolio of over 1000 such completed projects, as well as a diverse array of corporate, financial, education and residential mixed-use, and high-rise clients. AMA Group employs 200+ dedicated and talented professionals with 40+ licensed professional engineers and many others holding a variety of technology, energy, and sustainability-related certifications. Founded in 2000 in New York City, we’ve grown to provide a comprehensive suite of services across national offices in New York, New Jersey, California, Florida, and Texas.

The Employee Experience

At AMA, people are at the heart of everything we are and what we do. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture where all our employees flourish, individually as a team; with employee experience at our focal point, we are dedicated to ensuring employees’ development, wellness, and overall experiences are satisfying and rewarding. We offer a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package to our team members and provide an open, honest, and fun work environment. We were voted 2023 Best Medium Companies to Work for in New York, New Jersey, and Los Angeles.

Benefits:

• Base Salary Range of $85,000 -100,000
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off and holidays
• Professional development and certification reimbursement

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but is not limited to, relevant experience, time in the role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example, annual discretionary incentive programs, non-annual sales incentive plans, or other non-annual incentive plans).

To all recruitment agencies: AMA Group does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or agencies. Any resume submitted to any employee of AMA Group without a prior written search agreement will be considered unsolicited and the property of AMA Group. Please, no phone calls or emails.

Our company is committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally recognized basis [” protected characteristics’] including, but not limited to race, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, state, including pregnancy), gender, gender identity, gender expression, the age for individuals over forty years of age, sexual orientation, the military and veteran status of any person, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.