Accounting Analyst
This is a contract to potential direct hire opportunity.
As a key member of the Accounting team, the Analyst will be responsible for preparing journal entries, reviewing monthly financial information, and reporting results. The Analyst will also be responsible for ensuring adequate internal controls, including end user computer applications controls, are designed and effectively implemented. The Analyst will also assist in the preparation of budgets and forecasts and comparisons to actual results.
- Preparation of journal entries
- Compare monthly budgets and forecasts with actual results
- Understanding of design and operation of internal controls
- Review monthly financial information to ensure reasonability
- Review and summarize capital requests, including assessing the overall business case of capital purchases
- Analyze opportunities and build models to support business decisions
- Plan, coordinate and execute various ad hoc queries and reports used by all management levels in development of key strategy and operational decision making
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or business administration. A CPA is highly preferred
- Highly competent in the use of the MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio)
- Experience with data analysis tools is an asset
- Understanding of internal control concepts
- Self-confidence, critical thinking, ability to influence, ability to work independently and willingness to work extended hours (if necessary)
- High level of time management and organizational skills
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Envision the Future
- Communicate Honestly and Broadly
- Seek Technology and Business “First”
- Embrace Diversity and Take Risks
- Competitive Salary
- Comprehensive Benefit Package
- 401(k) with matching contributions
- Paid Time Off
- Employee Discounts
- Free training on all Altair products
Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the area of data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.
Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing.
For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit altair.com
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At our core we are explorers; adventures; pioneers. We are the brains behind some of the world’s most revolutionary innovations and are not only comfortable in new and unchartered waters, we dive headfirst. We are the original trailblazers that make the impossible possible, discovering new solutions to our customer’s toughest challenges.
Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success. Altair’s history demonstrations a belief that empowering each individual authentic voice reinforces a culture that thrives because of the uniqueness among our team.
About the company
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Altair is a global leader in computational intelligence and provides software and cloud solutions in design and simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), and data analytics. We enable organizations across all industries to compete more effectively and drive smarter decisions in an increasingly connected world – all while creating a more sustainable future.
For 40 years, our entrepreneurial spirit and technical prowess have propelled growth by seeking technology and business firsts. Wherever you are and whatever you're doing, Altair's solutions surround you – keeping you safer, more connected, and more productive. From highways to hospitals, stadiums to subways, our innovations are woven into everyday life.
As the only company combining data science with rocket science, we pioneer the convergence of simulation, HPC, and AI solutions. Our comprehensive technology portfolio includes Altair HyperWorks for design and simulation, Altair HPCWorks for cloud and HPC, and Altair RapidMiner for data analytics and AI. We democratize these technologies through our patented units-based licensing model – the Netflix of enterprise software – enabling shared, on-demand access.
Our culture drives success through core values: envisioning the future, communicating honestly, seeking technology firsts, and embracing diversity. With 3,000+ employees representing 50+ nationalities and best-in-class retention rates, we've earned recognition from Inc. magazine's Best Led Companies and Newsweek's Most Loved Workplaces.
Our 16,000+ customers span every industry, with 20+ Altair products contributing to sustainability and millions of tons of CO2 emissions reduced through our optimization technologies.
Altair was recently acquired by Siemens, a global leader in industrial software, to extend its leadership in simulation and industrial artificial intelligence. Altair is now part of Siemens Digital Industries Software, and Altair technology is being integrated with the Siemens Xcelerator.