Client Accounting Onboarding Specialist- Franchise Services at Horne LLP in Ridgeland, Mississippi

Job Description:

HORNE is a professional services firm founded on a cornerstone of public accounting. As a top 25 business advisory firm, our 2,000+ team members serve clients from offices and project locations across the nation and Puerto Rico. We offer a range of financial operations and business strategy solutions that frees franchisees to focus on high-value opportunities like growth and customer experience. We serve clients in over 40 national brands spanning the pizza, chicken, deli and health/wellness segments.

The Client Accounting Onboarding Specialist plays a crucial role as the first point of contact for clients, focusing on problem-solving and optimizing processes across intake, preparation of statements, and hand-off, to ongoing teams in close collaboration with CEL and other ICE/Tech teams.

Essential Functions:

• Comprehensive understanding of balance sheet backups and the capability to resolve balance issues, including those stemming from previous practices


• Enhance efficiency in the financial preparation process for the recurring team


• Top of Form


• Bottom of Form


• Collaborate with the Tech team to establish and validate database imports


• Record transactions in general ledger and complete financial statement compilations


• Performs computations of accruals, amortizations and depreciation expense


• Show proficiency in the bank reconciliation program, including the ability to configure automated matching rules to ensure thorough and accurate auto-matching before forwarding clients to the financial preparation team


• Assists in proofing financial statements and other related documents


• Assumes responsibility for ensuring the accuracy of data collection, accumulation, and maintenance across all functions within our accounting and consulting firm


• Review processes and offer process improvements in accordance with be better initiatives


• Performs other accounting or consulting duties as assigned

Required Skills:

• Strong project management skills


• Comprehensive Knowledge of accounting and bookkeeping principles and procedures


• Skilled in problem-solving with a strong attention to detail


• Basic Income Tax and GAAP Experience


• Proficiency in technology including the ability to independently learn and adapt to new software such as Intacct and alliance

Required Experience:

• Experience with balance sheets, bank reconciliations and monthly/quarterly/yearly financial statement preparation


• 3-5 years’ experience working with spreadsheets, financial statements, balance sheet back-up, general ledger entries, and other financial reports preferred


• Experience in a CPA firm or in Franchise Accounting, strongly preferred

Education Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate field preferred.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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