Senior Accountant

SSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Essential Functions Statement(s)

• Manage the Accounts Payable cycle, ensuring team members maintain accurate invoice processing and reconciliations, account balances, and accrued liabilities.

• Review the Accounts Payable invoice processing and provide direction for GL account coding when needed.

• Partner with vendors and internal departments to resolve invoice discrepancies, ensuring timely processing and accurate financial records.

• Lead the Accounts Payable team in reviewing and resolving aged, accrued liabilities, driving the efforts to resolve and clear balances aged over 60 days.

• Monitor Accounts Payable payment terms and collaborate with vendors to optimize credit arrangements and improve working capital.

• Assist with month-end SOX compliance and reporting processes, supporting adherence to internal control standards and audit requirements.

• Receive payments and accurately post amounts paid to customer accounts, or review if completed by other team members.

• Confer with customers to determine reasons for overdue payments and to review the terms of sales, service, or credit contracts.

• Aid in reviewing customer credit limits and analyzing periodic updates as necessary.

• Drive collection activities to maximize cash receipts and minimize bad debt write-offs.

• Maintain constant communication with internal departments to ensure smooth shipping and billing of customer units, including proper revenue recognition as appropriate.

• Oversee continuity of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable activities by providing backup support and coverage for key accounting functions as needed.

• Assist with monthly financial closing, including journal entry preparation and management of closing checklists.

• Assist with financial analysis and management reporting on monthly financial results.

• Assist management with budget preparation, including research and analysis, and Excel modeling.

• Oversee the capital expenditure process, aiding staff accounting as needed and reconciling fixed assets monthly.

• Complete weekly/monthly reports along with periodic audit requests.

• Compile statistical, financial, accounting or auditing reports and tables pertaining to such matters as cash receipts, expenditures, accounts payable and receivable, and profits and losses.

• Aid in tariff tracking initiatives and their impact on the financial statements

• Assist with financial trend analysis, evaluating product mix and key business drivers to identify and explain variances in financial results.

• Perform variance analysis of actual results versus budget, forecast, and prior year performance to identify opportunities for cost savings and support profitability improvement initiatives

• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Opportunity for supervision of interns, or junior staff as appropriate.

• Ability and desire to progress in career path with future promotional opportunities.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

Competency Statement(s)

• Active Listening - Ability to actively attend to, convey, and understand the comments and questions of others.

• Accuracy - Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.

• Analytical Skills - Ability to use thinking and reasoning to solve a problem.

• Assertiveness - Ability to act in a self-confident manner to facilitate completion of a work assignment or to defend a position or idea.

• Communication, Written - Ability to communicate in writing clearly and concisely.

• Communication, Oral - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.

• Conflict Resolution - Ability to deal with others in an antagonistic situation.

• Decision Making - Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.

• Detail Oriented - Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.

• Negotiation Skills - Ability to reach outcomes that gain the support and acceptance of all parties.

• Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.

• Reliability - The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.

• Responsible - Ability to be held accountable or answerable for one's conduct.

• Time Management - Ability to utilize the available time to organize and complete work within given deadlines.

• Working Under Pressure - Ability to complete assigned tasks in stressful situations.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Education: , Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance: Required

Experience: , 3-5 years of experience; prior audit experience helpful

Computer Skills: , Proficient in MS Office Suite.

Certifications & Licenses: CPA/CMA Preferred