GL - Accountant

<p><strong> </strong><strong>Who We Are: </strong></p> <p><em>Headquartered in New York City, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is a leading developer, publisher, and marketer of interactive entertainment for consumers around the globe. We develop and publish products principally through Rockstar Games, 2K, and Zynga. Our strategy is to create hit entertainment experiences, delivered on every platform relevant to our audience through a variety of sound business models. Our pillars - creativity, innovation, and efficiency - guide us as we strive to create the highest quality, most captivating experiences for our consumers. The Company’s common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO. For more corporate and product information please visit our website at </em><a href="http://www.take2games.com/"><em>http://www.take2games.com</em></a><em>.</em></p> <p><strong>WHAT YOU’LL TAKE ON:</strong></p> <p>The accountant will be responsible for the following primary activities:</p> <ul> <li>Perform general accounting functions including the preparation of monthly journal entries, analysis, and balance sheet account reconciliations.</li> <li>Perform month end close procedures, including but not limited to G/L to subledger reconciliations, record monthly fixed asset related activities such as additions, disposals, transfers, depreciation and reclasses, prepare quarterly fixed assets rollforward, and maintain fixed assets, and bank reconciliations.</li> <li>Contribute to finance accounting streamline transformation (FAST) initiatives to improve current processes or technology enhancements while ensuring compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley</li> <li>Collaborate with partners throughout the organization including but not limited to US Consolidations, UK Finance, Label Finance, FPA, Treasury, Tax, and IT, etc.</li> <li>Assist with financial audit and review including coordinate and meet quarterly and year end requests, prepare audit schedules, provide fluctuation analysis, and collaborate with both external and internal auditors.</li> <li>Perform other adhoc analyses and special projects as required.</li> </ul> <p><strong>WHAT YOU BRING:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in accounting and 2+ years of professional accounting experience working in high volume, fast paced environments. </li> <li>Good understanding of fundamental accounting principles</li> <li>General understanding of SOX compliance for a public company</li> <li>Ability to work with tight deadlines and work under pressure.</li> <li>Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.</li> <li>Ability to communicate effectively with the business partners and to develop working relationships with management and staff in all departments.</li> <li>Proactive and ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment utilizing organizational and team-oriented interpersonal skills to effectively prioritize multiple tasks and deal with multiple changing priorities.</li> <li>Self-starter working under minimal direction and drive tasks or responsibility to completion and meet the deadline.</li> <li>Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel functionalities and formula (e.g. pivot table, SUMIF/SUMIFS/VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP formulas, etc.)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to Have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Knowledge of JD Edwards ERP, Hyperion Financial Management/Hyperion Planning systems, and BlackLine reconciliation tool a plus.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What We Offer You: </strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><u>Great Company Culture</u></strong>. We pride ourselves as being one of the most creative and innovative places to work, creativity, innovation, efficiency, diversity and philanthropy are among the core tenets of our organization and are integral drivers of our continued success.</li> <li><strong><u>Growth</u></strong>: As a global entertainment company, we pride ourselves on creating environments where employees are encouraged to be themselves, inquisitive, collaborative and to grow ... (truncated, view full listing at source)