Senior Accountant-Chicago, IL

For over 30 years, Rewards Network has helped restaurants increase their revenue, traffic, and customer engagement through our innovative financial and marketing services and premier dining rewards programs.

We connect diners to fantastic restaurant experiences by offering unique card-linked offers thanks to our ability to leverage advanced technology and powerful data analytics, while simultaneously providing value to our strategic partners' overall loyalty programs.

We work alongside our restaurant partners every day, sharing in the ebbs and flows of their business while helping them achieve their dreams.

We provide marketing and financing that work with their business and are truly pay-for-performance. We help them increase revenue, traffic, and customer engagement.

Importantly, our services do not require the merchant to discount or give away their products.Even more, we enhance our partners' loyalty programs by offering a turn-key, scalable dining rewards program that is right for their business model and leverages their unique brand to help increase the value proposition for their customers.

Finally, we connect our millions of members to our participating restaurants, allowing them to earn the rewards they desire when dining out.

The job helps the accounting team to provide timely and accurate financial information to the company by analyzing data and transactions, preparing journal entries and performing account reconciliations.

This is true every month end and at year end when it is critical to support the annual audit of the company’s financial statements.

Job Responsibilities :

• Prepares month-end close journal entries and assists with the monthly close cycle
• Prepares monthly account reconciliations
• Assists in tax related matters
• Fields questions related to actual departmental expenses incurred, works with Finance to explain differences between budgeted and actual variances
• Prepares accrual / expense analyses as-needed
• Assists in the preparation of year-end audit related documentation
• Participates in special projects as needed

Qualifications :

• Advanced MS Excel skills preferred, including VLOOKUP and Pivot tables
• Experience with general accounting software preferred
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills required
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills required
• Accountancy degree required
• CPA certification preferred
• 3-5 years experience in related field

What We Offer :

• Comprehensive benefits package, which includes :
• Competitive Paid Time Off and company holidays
• Generous dining reimbursement when you dine with our restaurant clients
• 401(k) plan with a company match
• Two medical plan options- Standard PPO or High Deductible Health Plan (HSA with company match for HDHP participants)
• Partnership with Rx n Go, offering certain prescriptions for free
• Two dental plan options and a vision plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts and a pre-tax commuter benefit program
• Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance Plans
• Short Term and Long Term disability
• Company-paid life insurance and AD&D insurance, supplemental employee, spouse, and child life insurance
• Employee Life Assistance Program
• Hybrid working environment in a new office space downtown near the Metra Train stations and catered lunches on Tuesdays.

Rewards Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We encourage and strongly support workplace diversity.