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Staff Accountant

  • Company: EBI
  • Location: Simsbury, CT
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EBI at a glance

ebi.ac.uk
  • Founded 1994
  • Employees 850

SEC filings mentioning "EBI": 1,743search EDGAR

EMBL-EBI is an intergovernmental bioinformatics center within the EMBL family, based on the Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge. DATA lists founding in 1994 and about 850 staff supporting research and open life-science data services.

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EBI is hiring a Staff Accountant for a full-time role based in Simsbury, CT. This opportunity places you at the heart of accurate financial record-keeping and reporting in a focused team setting.

About This Position

The Staff Accountant position at EBI centers on core accounting support in Simsbury, CT. You will help maintain clean books, deliver reliable financial data, and contribute to regular closing cycles. This full-time Staff Accountant role suits someone ready to own day-to-day ledger work while collaborating across functions, ensuring the books stay audit-ready and management receives timely insights. Candidates searching for Staff Accountant jobs in Simsbury, CT will find a hands-on assignment that blends routine transaction processing with essential analysis and documentation.

Core Duties

  • Prepare and enter journal entries that keep the general ledger accurate and current
  • Reconcile balance-sheet and related accounts, then clear any variances promptly
  • Support month-end and year-end close by gathering schedules, rolling forward balances, and producing supporting workpapers
  • Assemble draft financial statements and management reports on a regular cycle
  • Process accounts payable and receivable activity to ensure complete cut-off and proper coding
  • Maintain organized electronic and paper files that stand up to internal reviews and external audits
  • Apply GAAP consistently across all transactions and reporting outputs
  • Assist with basic fixed-asset tracking, bank reconciliations, and ad-hoc variance analysis

Skills & Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a closely related discipline
  • Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP and standard month-end close procedures
  • Solid proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, lookups, and basic formulas
  • Familiarity with modern accounting or ERP systems for general-ledger work
  • Strong analytical skills paired with careful attention to numerical accuracy
  • Clear written and verbal communication abilities for explaining findings to colleagues
  • Proven capacity to prioritize multiple deadlines while protecting data integrity
  • Comfort collaborating with cross-functional partners in a Simsbury-based office environment

Working at EBI

EBI is hiring for this Staff Accountant role and offers a supportive team environment where precise work is valued and professional growth is encouraged. Team members in Simsbury, CT contribute to dependable financial processes and share expertise that strengthens overall accounting results.

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The role is listed in Simsbury, Connecticut (Hartford County / Capitol Planning Region), not remote. Connecticut sits in New England between the New York and Boston corridors, with Hartford as capital.

Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital is Hartford, and its most populous city is Bridgeport. Connecticut lies between the major hubs of New York City and Boston along the Northeast Corridor, where the New York metropoli

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GDP per capita in US: $90,027via World Bank

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    About this role & career path

    Core accountant work includes inspecting ledgers and systems, analyzing data for weak controls or non-compliance, reporting findings, and advising on financial and regulatory matters.

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    • Walk through a close or reconciliation you owned end to end.
    • How you spot control gaps or duplicate effort in data.
    • Explaining audit findings to non-finance managers.

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    Listing facts

    • Role Staff Accountant
    • Employer EBI
    • Location Simsbury, CT
    • Type Full Time
    • Posted July 13, 2026
    • Apply by 2026-08-12
    • Country context US
    • Overview Full original description on this page (372 words; rewritten for clarity, not a teaser paste)

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    • Prepare detailed reports on audit findings.
    • Report to management about asset utilization and audit results, and recommend changes in operations and financial activities.
    • Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated effort, extravagance, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies.
    • Inspect account books and accounting systems for efficiency, effectiveness, and use of accepted accounting procedures to record transactions.
    • Supervise auditing of establishments, and determine scope of investigation required.
    • Confer with company officials about financial and regulatory matters.

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