Staff Accountant

A retail franchise is seeking to hire a Staff Accountant to process full-cycle accounting payable, perform invoicing, vendor management, and check runs, and assist with ad hoc project accounting work. The ideal candidate has 1+ years of experience and experience with accounts payable processing, strong Excel skills, and experience using Great Plains is highly preferred.

Requirements

• Perform monthly and year-end closing processes and prepare financial statement analysis and reports.
• Prepare Monthly Journal Entries.
• Run various reports (e.g., General Ledger transaction, customer and vendors aging)
• Execute account analysis monthly to ensure that journal entries and balances are correct and properly documented.
• Reconcile various balance sheet accounts which require very detailed analysis and investigation.
• Resolve account discrepancies and issues of non-compliance.
• Oversee and analyze all operating expense schedules and accounts.
• Track year-to date corporate costs and provide variance analysis against budget/forecasts to Heads of Divisions.
• Process reclassifications based on monthly expense analysis.
• Prepare domestic and international inter-company account reconciliations and invoices.
• Assist with questions and problems quickly, look to improve processes when needed.
• Support compliance reporting with bank (i.e., borrowing base compliance, calculation of bank covenants) and government (US census, financial quarter filing, R&D survey).
• Work closely with external auditors on the audit process by completing requested schedules.

Benefits

• Total compensation that’s above market
• Killer incentives that reward drive and high performance
• Managers who work side by side with you and treat you like an equal
• Technology that makes your job easier and sets you up for bigger success
• Intensive training to help you go gangbusters right out of the gate
• A culture that values excellence but not burnout
• Peers who work hard and have no time for drama
• Team outings that would make your friends jealous
• Promotions and growth opportunities