Staff Accountant

Company Overview: Moore Colson is a leading CPA and consulting firm in Atlanta with over 40 years of experience. Known for its collaborative, client-focused approach, Moore Colson offers a wide range of services to help businesses grow and achieve their goals.

Position : The Staff Accountant will play a key role in supporting Moore Colson’s internal financial operations by maintaining accurate financial records, preparing reports, and ensuring compliance with internal policies and GAAP. This role focuses on the firm’s own financial operations, working closely with the Controller and Finance leadership to manage day-to-day accounting activities. This position requires strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and a commitment to upholding the firm’s high standards of integrity and client service.

Responsibilities

• Manage accounts receivable and cash receipts, including depositing checks, posting journal entries, entering and applying bank activity, communicating client payments to the billing team, and maintaining the daily cash forecast summary.
• Oversee accounts payable by coding, entering, and posting vendor invoices, managing the AP inbox, handling vendor onboarding and changes, following up on missing documents, ensuring timely invoice approvals, managing the corporate card process, understanding the financial statement impact of payments, assisting with weekly AP runs, and resolving outstanding vendor payments.
• Support month-end processes by participating in the close, reconciling vendor statements, preparing payroll journal entries, communicating intercompany charges, assisting with P&L review and variance analysis, calculating and recording journal entries (depreciation, accruals, prepaid expenses, unearned revenue, etc.), and reconciling select balance sheet accounts.
• Prepare Deltek reporting, including AR and WIP aging reports, operational reports for departments, and other revenue and realization-related reports as requested.
• Assist with annual and other processes such as reporting and budget preparation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, or similar
• 1-3 years of accounting experience. Professional experience in banking, engineering, or law firm is preferred and industry experience a plus.
• Proficiency in accounting software and ERP systems.
• Strong Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUP).
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities.

Benefits

• 3 weeks paid vacation, wellness days, and holidays.
• Business Casual dress code.
• Fitness membership discounts.
• Continuing education opportunities.
• Competitive salary and bonus program.
• 401k with match.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Tuition and certification reimbursement.
• Cell phone reimbursement.
• Volunteer days.
• Coaching and mentoring programs.
• Social events.

Moore Colson is annually ranked among Atlanta’s Top 15 Accounting Firms by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. We have been named an Atlanta Journal-Constitution Top Workplace since 2011 and a Top Workplace USA starting in 2023. Inside Public Accounting has also named Moore Colson one of America’s Top 110 Largest Accounting Firms, a Fastest-Growing Firm and a Best of the Best Top 50 Firm. Most importantly, our clients like us, trust us and want to do business with us. We are looking for people with the same enthusiasm, passion and respect for hard work that brought us to where we are today.

If you are interested in our award-winning corporate culture, excited for our best-in-class total rewards package and ready to take your career to the next level with a growing organization, consider joining our team!

At Moore Colson, we are a business based on ethics and integrity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

Moore Colson does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies without pre-approval from Moore Colson’s Talent team. Pre-approval is required before any external candidate can be submitted. Moore Colson will not be responsible for fees related to unsolicited resumes and for candidates who are sent directly to our hiring managers.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.