Senior Staff Accountant

Who we are

BMF is a global integrated creative marketing agency known for humanizing brands in unexpected, inspiring, and impactful ways. Now celebrating 20 years in business, the award-winning boutique agency is helmed by partners Brian Feit, Bruce Starr, and Ed Starr, and is supported by an experienced global team of both long-standing BMFers, and recent executive-level hires.

BMF's international network of cross-disciplinary creative marketers build extraordinary brand experiences around the world, and across channels. The agile team provides a fully integrated service offering, from strategy and creative to experiential, digital, talent, and public relations. Elevating brands who seek a relevant role in cultural conversations important to their audiences, BMF has a global client roster that includes Marriott, Visa, Disney, Est?e Lauder, Crystal, Lamborghini, Gucci, Lilly Pulitzer, and Japan Airlines.

BMF has been recognized for its legacy of boundary-pushing work, and as an innovative marketing industry force. Among its many accolades, BMF was most recently honored by Ad Age as a 2023 Small Agency Award winner in the "Campaign Of The Year" category for its work with CBS.

BMF is an LGBT-owned business certified by the NGLCC (nglcc.org) with diversity and inclusion as part of the agency's core DNA.

Our growing and dynamic agency is now looking for a Senior Staff Accountant to join our Finance team.

Does this sound like you?

The primary purpose of this position is to be responsible for the accurate recording of all financial operations for bookkeeping purposes at BMF. This person will be asked to run a variety of custom reports and provide financial insight as needed. A deep understanding of generally accepted accounting principles and the accounting software WorkBook is a must.

Key Responsibilities

• All bookkeeping and transaction recording for business and tax purposes.
• Tracking expenditures and employee expenses.
• Support on accounts payable and issue 1099.
• Ensuring all credit card transactions are recorded and reconciled on a monthly basis.
• Corporate card management- handling fraud, monitoring limits, monitoring total balance
• Conducting bank reconciliations.
• Own entire month close cycle including intercompany entries, preparations of journal entries, reconciliations for Balance Sheet and Income Statement accounts, and calculation of WIP and COGs
• Enforcing internal financial controls.
• Managing and running payroll.
• Managing 401(k)- new hire setup, 5500 reporting, tracking changes to employee contributions
• Producing weekly financial reports for management.
• Creatingand managing a cashflow forecast.
• Assist in any audit preparations.
• Compile month close packets for Senior Leadership
• Assisting the CFO with other tasks as necessary.

The salary for this role is $100,000 and is based on experience, responsibilities of the position, subject matter expertise and is location specific.

Requirements

Whatyou'll need:

• 5-7 years experience in an Accounting/Accounts Payable role, preferably in an agency or similar sized company
• Interest in learning about starting, managing, and/or growing a business
• Must have EXCELLENT written and verbal English language skills
• Proactive team player; accountable, responsible, and organized
• Problem solver, able to work under pressure and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Strong attention to detail with outstanding multitasking and organizational skills

• Must be highly skilled with Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel

Benefits

What we bring to the table:

We want you to be part of a dynamic and creative team. We are vanguards in creative strategy and experts in leveraging emerging trends in popular culture, the arts, fashion and technology. We connect brands with media, influencers, artists and consumers to create today's leading experiential activations in the market. And we?ve got the cred too: we were featured in Event Marketer's IT List of Top 100 Event Agencies for the past four years.

We offer:

• A fast-paced, creative and collaborative environment with supportive leadership.
• A culture that values ideas and innovation from everyone at every level.
• Ongoing professional development and training; we will empower you to take charge of your career path.
• Strong benefits including health and dental, and 401K matching.

Qualification

Bachelor's Degree