Sr. Staff Accountant

Company: Company name is confidential
Location: Elk Grove
Posted on: March 16, 2020

Job Description:

The Senior Staff Accountant performs all accounting activities, including month-end close procedures, balance sheet account reconciliations, supporting the annual budgeting process, maintaining accounting systems and controls, creating and posting journal entries to the general ledger, and creating financial and operational reports. Responsible for all general ledger accounts and most sub-ledgers, including but not limited to cash, inventory, fixed assets, prepaid, accrued expenses, debt, sales, cost of sales, opex, and other assets, liabilities, income, and expense.Competencies include;

• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and common accounting practices for manufacturing entities, including manufactured goods inventory costing, direct and overhead capitalization, and cost center expense allocation.
• Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP and common accounting practices related to fixed assets, prepaid, accrued expenses, debt, and recognition of revenue and related cost of sales, operating expenses, and depreciation.
• At least two years in a role performing common accounting functions, including balance sheet reconciliations, financial statement close processing, posting journal entries, and preparing reports and analyses for financial and business users.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook).
• General familiarity with ERP systems (ASW / AS400 and Finetech Q2S preferred, but not required)
• Accuracy, productivity, problem-solving, teamwork, customer focus, flexibility, and dependability.Functions in this role:
  • Perform weekly, monthly, and quarterly reviews of manufacturing and inventory clearing accounts, identify errors or process issues and work with facility teams and corporate IT to resolve.
  • Create and distribute weekly, monthly, quarterly and ad-hoc financial and operational reports, including working with management to understand unusual trends or budget-vs-actual deviations.
  • Perform close process activities, including calculating and posting adjusting journal entries, researching and documenting unusual GL account trends or budget-vs-actual deviations, and preparing close process reporting.
  • Reconcile all balance sheet accounts monthly, including researching and resolving all reconciling items in a timely manner.
  • Actively maintain the sub-ledgers and supporting documentation for a fixed asset, prepaids, accrued expenses, and debt.
  • Prepare and support others in preparing check requests, including assigning appropriate coding to invoices and credit card statements.
  • Participate in project teams related to ERP system, production process tracking, inventory management, and other issues that may affect accounting records, as requested.
  • Perform periodic physical inventories at warehouses.
  • Regularly communicate with management to understand upcoming changes or trends that may affect accounting and identify areas for improvement in current accounting or operational processes.
  • Performs additional duties as required and requested.

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