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Perion

Perion is hiring: Accountant in Chicago

Perion, Chicago, IL, United States, 60290

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Perion is a global advertising technology company delivering solutions to the biggest brands and publishers around the globe across search, social media and display, video, CTV, and programmatic DOOH.

Home to an award-winning technology solution –– with our unique data-driven AI/ML based technologies, we deliver and optimize hundreds of terabytes of data and billions of events per day. We're working with dozens of sources to provide a superior experience across screens and platforms, including mobile, video, social and native.

Perion is seeking an experienced Senior Accountant (Temp-to-Hire) to provide accounting support to our finance department, working East Coast hours.

Responsibilities:

  • Produce accurate and timely reconciliations of assigned accounts
  • Prepare journal entries
  • Ensure compliance with US GAAP and SOX

This role is essential to maintaining the continuity of our accounting operations, with a primary focus on the month-end close process and providing support during the annual audit.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Prepare daily and monthly journal entries
  • Review daily accounting transactions
  • Assist with the monthly financial close by preparing account reconciliations, analyzing accounts such as prepaids, accrued expenses, fixed assets, recording journal entries, and maintaining accurate supporting analysis and documentation
  • Support the preparation of schedules and documentation for internal and external auditors
  • Ensure compliance with US GAAP and internal company policies
  • Respond to ad-hoc reporting and analysis requests as needed

Profile and Experience:

  • 4+ years of relevant accounting experience is required
  • Undergraduate degree in accounting required; CPA preferred
  • Experience at a publicly traded company and knowledge of SOX is a strong plus
  • Strong Excel skills including data tables, pivot tables, v-lookups, etc. and ability to efficiently work with large volumes of data
  • Must be comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment with strong time-management skills, attention to detail, and demonstrated ability to multitask
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Knowledge of Netsuite is a must

Perion is committed to building a company whose staff reflects the true diversity of our community. Our employees are hired, promoted, and rewarded on the basis of talent, performance, dedication and results. We embrace our diversity and are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer that welcomes all candidates without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, partnership status, ancestry, disability or veteran status.

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