Accountant
NSF
Accounting & Finance
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Posted on Dec 20, 2025
NSF is seeking a skilled Accountant to join our highly experienced account team. We are looking for a motivated individual who thrives in a changing environment and can manage multiple priorities. You’ll examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records ensuring compliance with accounting standards. Ensuring accurate and timely reporting of revenue under ASC 606 compliance with GAAP, and support month-end close and external financial and internal control audits. We need a self-started who can work independently but also be a good team player. The ideal candidate will be able to learn quickly and meet deadlines while handling multiple tasks.
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With a legacy spanning more than 80 years, NSF leverages science and innovation to improve human and planet health. We provide science-driven, independent testing, inspection, certification, and advisory services and develop the very standards that drive the food, water, and life sciences industries worldwide. We empower our clients to navigate shifting regulations to improve consumer health, safety, and quality of life.
One of our core values is We Are One NSF. This means that while we’re one team, we embrace the cultural, ethnic, language, and demographic diversity that reflects the societies in which we live and work.
Come join a team that makes a difference in the world. More information about NSF can be found at nsf.org.
NSF is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, or disability.
Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives: Please note that NSF is not accepting unsolicited resumes from agencies/search firms for this role. Resumes submitted to an NSF employee by a third-party agency without a valid written & signed search agreement between NSF and said third-party agency will become the sole property of NSF. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.
We are the guardians of NSF’s assets. We are the keepers and providers of accurate and useful financial information which empowers careful and rational decision making. We do this so NSF may better advance its public health and safety mission.
NSF is seeking a skilled Accountant to join our highly experienced account team. We are looking for a motivated individual who thrives in a changing environment and can manage multiple priorities. You’ll examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records ensuring compliance with accounting standards. Ensuring accurate and timely reporting of revenue under ASC 606 compliance with GAAP, and support month-end close and external financial and internal control audits. We need a self-started who can work independently but also be a good team player. The ideal candidate will be able to learn quickly and meet deadlines while handling multiple tasks.
- BA/BS in Accounting
- 4+ years of accounting experience
- Exceptional knowledge of accrual accounting, account reconciliations, as well as knowledge of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- Excellent organizational, time management and project management skills
- Exceptional written and verbal communications skills
- Ability to adapt to rapidly changing priorities and deadlines
- Strong analytical and accounting skills
- Intermediate Excel skills (formulas, pivot tables, macros)
- Innovative and creative, collaborating on projects and process improvements. Ambitious and diligent with a commitment to improvement and high standard of work
Preferred
- CPA
- Public Accounting Experience
- Experience with Oracle Financials or similar ERP system (preferred)
- Hubble/Insight Financial Reporting
- Compile account information and prepare monthly journal entries
- Prepare and maintain monthly account reconciliations
- Research significant accounting issues and recommend best practices and applications in line with accounting standards
- Help in compiling year-end external audit and internal audit requests
- Assist management with and ad-hoc research, clean-up and reporting projects
- Collaborate with different departments to enhance data flow and streamline processes