The Accountant's responsibilities include preparing journal entries, performing account reconciliations, maintaining the general ledger, preparing tax returns, assisting with audit preparations, and performing other accounting duties as assigned.
- Preparing journal entries, analyses, and assist with monthly close processes.
- Prepare and maintain account reconciliations and journal entries to accurately depict company financial performance in accordance with GAAP.
- Ensure all financial transactions within the company are accounted for and follow GAAP.
- Ensure processes are completed in a timely fashion to meet both internal and external deadlines.
- Present quarterly and yearly financial reports to management.
- Responding to information requests, reviewing financial statements, and assisting with audits.
- Prepare weekly cash flow and flash reports for parent company.
- Provide assistance to the accounts payable, invoicing, cash applications, and accounts receivable functions, as needed.
- Generate and file state and local tax returns as required.
- Analyzing month over month expense variances while working directly with others to improve month end close processes.
- Execute and improve monthly closing activities in accordance with internal checklists and calendars.
- Perform bank reconciliations for multiple bank accounts.
- Maintain fixed asset system and prepare monthly capital expenditure summary.
- Assist in maintaining the internal control environment necessary to safeguard company assets through continual evaluation, development, and documentation of business and accounting policies, procedures, and controls.
- Document all procedures and activities to improve training and backup support.
- Provided training to accounting and operations staff as necessary.
- Participate in all physical inventories.
- Other responsibilities as assigned.
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting or related field, 1-3 years’ financial management experience.
- Impeccable math and analytical skills.
- Excellent Excel (pivot tables, vlookup) skills required.
- Experience with Sage X3 (or similar ERP software) along with data retrieval tools required.
- Working knowledge of GAAP.
- Ability to handle high levels of pressure and critical decision making.
- Energetic, hands-on mentality, highly motivated, with an inquiring mind and passion for excellence and innovation in the pursuit of business growth and success.
- Strong motivation to learn and contribute imperative.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written skills a must; strong collaboration.